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universal medicine of the Laplanders, and 

 may be called their little physician. 



Kattie is a kind of drawing or ripening 

 plaister made in the following manner. 

 The fine loose scaly bark of birch is set on 

 fire, and immediately quenched in water. 

 It is then chewed, in the same manner as 

 when w^anted for cementinfr earthen-ware 

 together, and afterwards mixed wdth fresh 

 turpentine from the spruce fir, both being 

 kneaded together by the hands, till the 

 mass becomes a black uniform plaister. 

 This has a very emollient quality, and is 

 successfully applied to hard imposthumes, 

 &c., which it brings to maturity without 

 pain in a short time, and promotes their 

 discharge. 



The common method of the Laplanders 

 for joining broken earthen-ware, is to tie 

 the fragments together with a thread, and 

 boil the whole in fresh milk, by which thej 

 are cemented to each other. 



The grass used for lining shoes is a Carex 

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