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ever others that tried the fame remedy did not 

 find much relief from it. 



SOME people collected the yellow bark of the 

 peach tree, efpecially that which is on the root* 

 and boiled it in water, till half of it was evapo- 

 rated by boiling. Of this decoction the patient 

 took every morning about a wine glafs full, be- 

 fore he had eaten any thing. This liquor has a 

 difagreeable tafte, and contracts the mouth and 

 tongue like alum ; yet feveral perfons at Raccoon 

 who had tried many remedies in vain, were cured 

 by this. 



OTHERS boiled the leaves of the Potentilla 

 reptans, or of the Potentilla canadenfis, in water, 

 and made the patients drink it before the ague 

 fit came on, and it is well known that feveral per- 

 fons have recovered by this means. 



THE people who are fettled upon the river M0- 

 hawk in New Tork, both Indians and Europeans, 

 collect the root of the Geum riva/e, and pound it. 

 This powder fome of them boil in water till it is 

 a pretty ftrong decoction : others only infufe cold 

 water on it and leave it fo for a day ; others mix 

 it with brandy. Of this medicine the patient is 

 to take a wine glafs full on the morning of the 

 day when the fever does not come, before he has 

 eaten any thing. I was aflured that this was one 

 of the furefl remedies, and more certain than 

 the jefuit's bark. 



THE people who live near the iron mines, de- 

 clared that they were feldom or never vifited by 

 the fever and ague; but when they have the fe- 

 ver, they drink the water of fuch fountains, as 

 arife from the iron mines, and have a ftrong cha- 



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