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66 FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 
€ root is considered very valuable as an as- 
tringent in dysentery, for which purpose it may be 
given in strong decoction, after the bowels have 
been cleansed by a thor rough dose of physic.— 
he Wyandot Indians consider it a very useful 
external At aati for old sores, wounds, and 
ue or inclined to mortify. 
beg os on they t e the roots, wash them 
, and boil till soft, ben mash them into a 
; pues swelling, 
$s an 
soon heals the most foul and mveterate eadon 
Water 9 ; 
They grow Sea the seed annually, in and 
= about nooks, springing up early in the fall, and 
art under 
water during the 
winter aad spring. They have long jagged leaves, 
rte 
of a French pee ae = root is whi 
a 
fibrous. They very acrid. Suis 
ae ms! sicken ee appetite, and purge 
the lood.and dingly 
ful rie onde pasumptive disorders. 
3 White Wood Tree. 
This noble tree is so well known throughout 
United States, by the names of Tulip Tree, 
hite Poplar, Whitewood, &c. that it nbaee 
‘ion - The bark of both body and root 
