33. A curt for bleeding at the stomach. 



Take a pound of yellow dock root, dry it thoroughly, 

 pound it fine, boil it in a quart of sweet milk; strain it off, 

 drink a gill three times a day. Take also a pill of white 

 pine turpentine every day to heal the vessels that leak. 



34. For the Dropsy. 



Take half a pound of blue flag root, half a pound of el- 

 ecampane root, boiled in two gallons of fair water to one 

 quart, sweetened with one pint of molasses. Let the pa- 

 tient take half a gill three times a day before eating. 



35. For the Canker Rash. 



' White birch root pulverized very fine, given in small 

 doses three or four times a day. Make a tea of the same 

 for constant drink. For the fever give rattle snake's gall, 

 three grains at a time. 



36. For any Hemorrhage of the Blood. 



Take a handful of blood weed — it grows in old fields, 

 and is called by some, horse tail, or white top — is about 

 waist or shoulder high, one stalk from the bottom, and has 

 a very bushy top; — when it is green^ pound it, and press 

 out the juice, and give the patient a table spooaful at a 

 time, once an hour till it stops; if it be dry boil it strong, 

 and give the tea, very strong, three or four spoonfuls at a 

 time. 



37. A cure for the Gravel in the Bladder or Kidneys. 



Make a strong tea of the herb called heart's ease, drink 

 plenty. — Or take the root of Jacob's ladder, and make a 

 very strong tea, and drink plenty. It is a most certain 

 remedy. — Jacob's ladder is a vine that grows often in 

 rich interval soil, near a wood or bush that stands near 

 grass land. It comes up with one stalk about breast hioh, 

 then springs off into a number of branches covered with 

 green leaves, and the fruit is a large bunch of black ber- 

 ries, when ripe the bunch hangs down under the leaves by 

 a small stem. This is proved to be the best cure that has 

 been found. 



38. A valuable remedy for the Piles 



If the piles are outward, make an ointment of cammo- 

 mile, sage, parsley, and burdoc, the leaves of each — sim- 



