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as you are able to bear. Take it in the morning 

 and at one o'clock. 



For the Catarrh. 



The root of Hellebore, sometimes called In- 

 dian poke, pounded line and sifted, and taken in 

 snuff, provokes to sneezing in a very powerful 

 manner, and is good for the catarrh. It has re- 

 lieved from craziness when the brain is pressed 

 by a stoppage. 



For the Piles * 



Take Canada thistle roots and simmer them 

 in cream, then take a linen rag two inches square, 

 wet it with the ointment thus simmered, twist 

 it and put it up the bowel. This has wrought 

 a cure in three days — repeat it every day. 



For the Cancer or Scrofula Humour, 



Take a pail full of pyrola urabrellata, (or as it 

 is called noble pine, and by the Westerns pip* 

 sissewa) add three pails of water, boil the same 

 6 hours, strain off the liquor, and boil the sam^ 

 down to three quarts ; pour that hot upon 1 lb. 

 of sulphur in a new gallon stone jug, shake the 

 same for 30 minutes, then add 1 quart of Holland 

 gin, cork the same up, and take from a table 

 spoon full to a glass, as the patient can bear, four 

 or six times a day, and apply the same as a 

 wash to the tumour. 



For inmard Humour or Rheumaiism. 



Garget berries or roots, sliced fine, and put 

 in spirits, has often eflfected a wonderful cure. 



To heal an Old Sore. 



Wild valerian leaves, or honey, have healed 

 when the case was difficult, 



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