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it drop upon the Sore, which would fmoak notably with 

 it; then fhe Playftered it with the Bark of Board Pine, or 

 Hemlock Tree, boyled foft and ftampt betwixt two ftones, 

 till it was as thin as brown Paper, and of the fame Colour, 

 fhe annointed the Playfter with Soyles Oyl, and the Sore 

 likewife, then fhe laid it on warm, and fometimes fhe 

 made ufe of the bark of the Larch Tree. 



To eat out proud Flcfli in a Sore. 



And to eat out the proud Flefh, they take a kind of 

 Earth Nut boyled and ftamped, and laft of all, they apply 

 to the Sore the Roots of Water Tillies boiled and ftamped 

 betwixt two ftones, to a Playfter. 



For Stitches. 



The Firr Tree, or Pitch Treef the Tar that is made of 

 all forts of Pitch Wood is an excellent thing to take away 

 thofe defperate Stitches of the Sides, which perpetually 

 afflifiteth thofe poor People that are [63] ftricken with the 

 Plague of the Back. 



1 Abies balsamea (L.) Marsh, (balsam-fir). "The firr-tree is a large tree, too; 

 but seldom so big as the pine. The bark is smooth, with knobs, or blisters, in 

 which ljeth clear liquid turpentine, — very good to be put into salves and oynt- 

 ments. The leaves, or cones, boiled in beer, are good for the scurvie. The 

 young buds are excellent to put into epithemes for warts and corns. The rosen is 

 altogether as good as frankincense. . . . The knots of this tree and fat-pine are 

 used by the English instead of candles ; and it will burn a long time : but it 

 makes the people pale" (Josselyn's Voyages, p. 66) ; besides being, as Wood says 

 {I. c, speaking of the pine), "something sluttish." But Higginson says they 

 "are very usefull in a house, and . . . burne as cleere as a torch." — Nevj-Eng. 

 Plantation, I. c, p. 122. 



