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mend the following remedy. Take of the 

 leaves of a kind of Polypody* four- fifths, 

 and of the cones of the Thuya one-fifth, 

 both reduced to a coarfe powder by them- 

 felves, and mixed together afterwards. 

 Then pour milk-warm water on it, fo as 

 to make a poultice, which fpread on linen, 

 and wrap it round the body : but as the 

 poultice burns like fire, they commonly lay 

 a cloth between it and the body, otherwife 

 it would burn and fcorch the fkin. I have 

 heard this remedy praifed beyond meafure, 

 by people who faid they had experienced 

 its good efifecfls. An Iroquefe Indian told 

 me, that a decodtion of Thuya leaves was 

 ufed as a remedy for the cough. In the 

 neighbourhood of Saratoga, they ufe this 

 decodtion in the intermitting fevers. 



The Thuya tree keeps its leaves, and is 

 green all winter. Its feeds are ripe towards 

 the end of September, old ftyle. The fourth 

 of Ocfober of this year, 1749, fome of the 

 coneSjefpeciallythofe which flood much ex- 

 pofcd to the heat of the fun, had already 

 dropt their feeds, and all the other cones 

 were opening in order to fhed them. This 

 tree has, in common with many other Ame- 



* P oly podium frondt pinnaiay piiinis ahernh ad haftn fttperne 

 appendiculaus, 



ricati- 



