282 avery's own farrier. 



WAH WHOOP. 



Some of our best professional men have said to me, 

 that it was folly for any one to suppose that the Indian 

 doctors knew half as much about the healing art as the 

 scientific scholar, who had all the advantage of our medi- 

 cal institutions, in this civilized life, with a full view 

 of the arts and sciences before him. As regards anatomy 

 and diseases, I am willing to admit that they are right 

 in their conclusions; but as the Indian has had the book 

 of nature only for his study, it has enabled him to dis- 

 cover the medicinal properties of a great many plants, 

 roots and barks, that are useful in disease (which the 

 more learned have overlooked in their aspirations to 

 grasp great things); which goes to show that the Indian 

 is not void of intellect, and that want and *' poverty is 

 the mother of invention." Therefore, I shall add here 

 the names and use of such vegetables as I have in my 

 possession (together with some of my own), in plain 

 English, as they were translated from the Indian tongue, 

 by one that had spent some twenty years of his life in 

 travel and traffic among the Indian tribes, which may 

 be of great use to some in veterinary practice, both in 

 urban, suburban and rural districts. 



"Roots and herbs are at the command of every one, and 

 nature's prescriptions are all free gratis. She demands not 

 your money for her services, but, like a kind patron and friend, 



