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any thing. This liquor has a difagreeable 

 tall€, and contrads the mouth and tongue 

 like alum 5 yet feveral perfons at Raccoon 

 who had tried many remedies in"vain, were 

 cured by this. 



Others boiled the leaves of the Poten- 

 tilla reptans, or of the Potentilla canadenjisy 

 in water, and made the patients drink it 

 before the ague fit came on, and it is well 

 known that feveral perfons have recovered 

 by this means. 



The people who are fettled upon the 

 river Mohawk in New York, both Indians 

 and Europeans collecfl the root of the 

 Geum rivale, and pound it. This powder 

 fome of them boil in water till it is a pret- 

 ty ftrong decodion : others only infufe 

 cold water on it and leave it fo for a day j 

 others mix it with brandy. Of this me- 

 dicine the patient is to take a wine glafs 

 full on the morning of the day when the 

 fever does not come, before he has eat- 

 en any thing. I was afTured that this was 

 one of the fureft remedies, and more cer- 

 tain than the jefuit's bark. 



The people who live near the iron 

 mines, declared that they v/ere feidom or 

 never vifited by the fever and ague ; but 

 when they have the fever, they drink the 

 water of fuch fountains, as arife from the 

 A a ^ iron 



