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12 “FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 
oe ater a use of mercury. It may be 
en in a heaping tea-spoonful, in 
half a gill of | a water, sweetened, if most - 
agr aga is ge in three hours if it does 
op 
eet high, bearing on the top 
a sp issel of white crowded flowers— 
leaves ing, marrow, and pointed. 
- Biack Snake Roat. 
This is also. called Rattle Weed, S 
hes ; Cohash, &c, Tt | is found allo over 
the Un ited States, growing in rich open woods, 
on hill side. d near fields. It is an Indian 
remedy, and much used i n rheumatism, and 
likewise to facilitate childbirth, whence its 
a : 
: auene ure the ague by sweating with this 
root. Women, in order to promote the menses, 
may bathe their feet in warm water, sitting ten 
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