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Note, You muft make a large Toaft, or Cake flit and 

 dip it in the Tar, and bind it warm to the Side. 



The moji common Difeafes in New England. 



The Black Pox, the Spotted Feaver, the Griping of the 

 Guts, the Dropjie, and the Sciatica, are the killing Difeafes 

 in New-England. 



The Larch Tree, which is the only Tree of all the Pines, 

 thatfheds his Leaves before Winter; The other remaining 

 Green all the Year: This is the Tree from which we 

 gather that ufeful purging, excrenfe, Agarick} 



For Wounds and Cuts. 

 The Leaves and Gum are both very good to heal 

 Wounds and Cuts. 



For TVounds with Bruifes. 



I cured once a defperate Bruife with a Cut upon the 

 Knee Pan, with an Ungent made with the Leaves of the 

 Larch Tree, and Hogs Greafe, but the Gum is beft. 



.Sprtice is a goodly Tree, of which they make Mafts for 

 Ships, and Sail Yards : It is generally conceived by thofe 



1 Larix Americana, Michx. (Larch; " taccamahac," Cutler ; tamarack; hack- 

 matack.) " Groundsels, made of larch-tree, will never rot ; and the longer it 

 lyes, the harder it growes, that you may almost drive a nail into a bar of iron as 

 easily as into that."— Josselyris Voyages, p. 68. "The turpentine that issueth 

 from the cones of the larch-tree (which comes nearest of any to the right turpen- 

 tine) is singularly good to heal wounds, and to draw out the malice (or thorn, as 

 Helmont phrases it) of any ach ; rubbing the place therewith, and throwing upon ' 

 it the powder of sage-leaves." — Hid., p. 66. 



