20 _ FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 
3 leaves It has long slender stalks, from 
feet high, with seven lon 
noi ves. e root is crooked and knotty, black 
outside, reddish within. Our Indians value this 
i ising it for wounds, ulcers, bloody 
, and the lues venera. It is very 
es : 
or and is a good injection ie erect and 
ehites.- Te will ara stop 
E and when ‘ized 
. \ nces in 
on, to four dra ied in 
fifteen to forty grains of the powder. 
: ot with gentian, will cu Seceeting 
fevers t more ee than pareve bark. 
Cate Rue or Rad Drops. 
_ This is a powerful astringent, and cancers 
effectually cured by the ye 
of the freak braiesd rot, frequently 
ti is very beneficial in t the cureof. 
y's f re, canker in the throat. It may be 
eo quarts, = sweetened. A decoction of 
-. ech nuts said to nd a certain cure for 
ds ac scalds, mbers nip- 
