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which have the fame qualities with the 

 American anemone. 



THE folio wing remedy was much in vogue 

 againft the tooth-ach which is attended with 

 a fwelling : They boil gruel, of flour of 

 maize, and milk ; to this they add, whilft 

 it is yet over the fire, fome of the fat of 

 hogs, or other fuet, and fiir it well, that 

 every thing may mix equally. A handker- 

 chief is then fpread over the gruel, and ap- 

 plied as hot as poffible to the {welled cheeky 

 where it is kept till it is gone cool again. 

 I have found, that this remedy has been 

 very efficacious againft a. fwelling ; as it 

 leffens the pain, abates the fwelling, opens 

 a gathering, if there be any, and procures a 

 good difcharge of the Pus. 



I HAVE feen the Iroquefe boil the inner 

 bark of the Sambucus Canadenfis, or Canada 

 Elder > and put it on that part, of the cheek 

 in which the pain was moft violent. This, 

 I am told, often diminiihes the pain. 



AMONG the Iroqueje, or Five Nations, 

 upon the river Mohawk, I faw a young In- 

 dian woman, who, by frequent drinking of 

 tea, had got a violent tooth-ach. To cure 

 it, fhe boiled the Myrica afplenii folia* 

 and tied it, as hot as me could bear 

 it, on the whole cheek. She faid, that 

 C 2 remedy 



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