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Ing a rounding table-spoonful of the powder in water 1 pt. Dose — One to 2 

 table-spoonfuls just before meals, and hull t'> a wine-glassful at bed-time. 



Remarks. — This plant is known as the American Greek-valerian, abscess 

 root, blue bells (from its blue flowers), sweat root, Jacob's ladder, etc. The 

 Latin, or technical, name is polemonium reptans. It grows in the northern 

 states, and was a great favorite with the Indians, the tea being given freely in 

 fevers, pleurisy, and to produce copious perspiration. It is claimed also to 

 cleanse the blood, and to have cured many cases of consumption. 



, PECKHAM'S GENUINE BALSAM -For Coughs, Sore 

 Throat, Sore Chest, Kidney Difficulties, Wounds, etc.— Rosin, 

 10 lbs. ; spirits of turpentine, 1 gal.; or, rosin, 23^ ozs. ; turpentine, 2 ozs., is 

 the same proportion. Dikections — Melt the rosin in a suitable kettle, or pan, 

 over a stove, in the day time, so that it shall not be necessary to have a lamp, 

 or candle, near; and when not too hot put in the turpentine, gradually. It 

 must not be made over an open fire, as the gas arising from it as the turpen- 

 tine is put in takes fire very readily, and would quickly fill a whole room with 

 its blaze, and perhaps fire the house; hence I have given tliese necessary pre- 

 cautions. Bottle while moderately hot, else it will run too slowly. Dose — For 

 a grown person, take from 5 to 10 drops on sugar; children, 1 or 2, to 5 drops, 

 night and morning. 



Remarks.— I obtained this recipe of L. S. Robinson, of Jackson, Mich., 

 who says he has made and sold thousands of dollars worth of it, claiming that 

 it is the original Peckham's balsam, and that all additional articles put in 

 and claimed to be an improvement, should not be used. With this balsam Mr. 

 Robinson claims he has made some remarkable cures in the diseases mentioned, 

 both internal and external, and mentions the following cases. 



I. A mare of his own, being in a strange pasture with some cows, 

 was badly hooked one night. The wound was long, deep and jagged, upon 

 the side; but he put some of this balsam into every part of the wound, then 

 sewed it up, except a little opening at the lowest point of the wound, to allow 

 the matter in healing to drain off. Then drove home, 30 miles, the same day, 

 and the wound made a very rapid healing. 



II. A remarkable case, that of a lady who had had several miscarriages, 

 and feared another, there being an inflammation of the parts, and also of the 

 neck of the bladder; but 5 to 8 drop doses, night and morning, of this balsam, 

 cured both difficulties; the lady, upon a subsequent trip he was making over 

 that route, showing him the babe, healthy and well, and herself the same, tell- 

 ing him, "There, doctor, that is your child, you saved it; nothing else was 

 used." 



III. A gentleman who had recently buried a wife from consumption, and 

 who considered himself past help, with the same disease, when Mr. Robinson 

 first made his acquaintance. But with this balsam internally, and Cook's 

 electro-magnetic liniment, externally, he was entirely cured, and is still alive, 

 at this writing, hale and hearty, living with a second wife, some 80 year* 

 after the cure. 



