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Board Pine, is a very large Tree two or three Fadom 

 about. 1 



For Wounds. 



It yields a very foveraign Turpentine for the Curing of 

 defperate Wounds. 



For Stabbs. 



The India?is make ufe of the Afo/s boiled in Spring 

 Water, for Stabbs, pouring in the Liquor, and applying 

 the boiled Mofs well ftamp'd or beaten betwixt two 

 Hones. 



For Burning and Scalding. 



And for Burning and Scalding, they firft take out the 

 fire with a ftrong decodtion of Alder Bark, then they lay 

 upon it a Playfter of the bark of Board Pine firft boyled 

 tender, and beat to a Playfter betwixt two ftones. 



To take Fire out of a Burn. 



One Chrijlopher Luxe, a Fifher-man, having burnt his 

 Knee Pan, was healed [62] again by an Indian Webb, or 

 Wife, (for fo they call thofe Women that have Husbands ;) 

 She firft made a ftrong decocltion of Alder bark, with 

 which Ihe took out the Fire by Imbrocation, or letting of 



1 JPinus Strobus, L. (white pine). "Of the body the English make large 

 canows of 20 foot long, and two foot and a half over; hollowing of them with jin 

 adds, and shaping of the outside like a boat." — Josselyrfs Voyages, p. 64; where 

 is more concerning the use of this tree in medicine. "ITiave seen," says Wood, 

 "of these stately, high-grown trees, ten miles together, close by the river-side; 

 from whence, by shipping, they might be conveyed to any desired port." — Ne-w- 

 Eng. Prospefl, chap. v. 



