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THE Author of this work is a native of New-York,and 

 now resides in Washington county, in the easterly part of 

 the state ; he has for the most part of his life been engag- 

 ed in the deepest study for restoring the health, and pre- 

 serving the lives of his fellow creatures. For the attain- 

 ment of this object he has travelled. To this end he has 

 laboured, and for years has applied himself in the wilds of 

 America, among the natives of the forest, where he has 

 undergone all the horrors and deprivations incident to 

 savage life, in order to collect and bring together that 

 knowledge which should be instrumental in saving the 

 Jives and preserving the health of his fellow creatures. 



Whilst among the Indians, the author was a particular 

 inmate and confident of a native Indian, who had been in- 

 structed in all the arts of civilized life,and had the advan- 

 tages of a liberal education, being a regular bred physi- 

 cian, in the medical department of the Pennsylvania uni- 

 versity, established at Philadelphia, at once the most 

 flourishing and respectable institution of the kind in the 

 United States, and hardly excelled by any in Europe. — 

 While with this Indian, the author of this work had not 

 only an opportunity of learning the Indian method of treat- 

 iing disorders, and the medical virtues of the vegetable 

 kingdom, but likewise of gaining much literary and scien- 

 tific knowledge. 



It is as clear as the sun at noon day, (and must be seen 

 by all observers') that nature has provided in her miner- 

 als, animals and vegetables, an effectual remedy, if admin- 

 istered in season, for all the disorders incident to the hu- 

 man system. Of the two latter, the author has treated 

 more particularly in his work, omitting mineral substanc- 

 es generally, on account of their poisonous quality — and 

 which he thinks in a great measure ought to be laid 

 aside. Should any recipe in the preceding pages answer 

 the benevolent design of the writer — that of easing pain, 

 curing diseases and prolonging life — the person so benefit- 

 ted will be more than compensated for the price asked 

 for this. 



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