3jkfo=(£nslan&s Parities. 155 



To provoke Urine. 



Their Bones beat to a Powder and drank with conven- 

 ient Liquors, is a gallant Urin provoking Medicine. 



For Wound and Bruife. 



An Indian, whofe Knee was bruifed with a fall, and the 

 Skin and Flefh fbrip'd down to the middle of the Calf of 

 his Leg; Cured himfelf with Water Lilly Roots boyled 

 and ftamped. 1 



For Swellings of the Foot. 



An Indian Webb, her Foot being very much fwelPd 

 ;rnd inflamed, aflwaged the fwelling, and took away the 

 inflamation with our Garden or EnglifJi Patience, the Roots 

 roafted. f. Cataplaf. Anno 1670. jfune 28. 



To dijfolve a Scirrhous Tuinour. 



An Indian diflblv'd a Scirrhous Tumour in the Arm and 

 Hip, with a fomentation of Tobacco, applying afterwards 

 the Herb ftamp'd betwixt two ftones. 



1 Compare Cutler (Account of Indig. Veg., /. c, p. 456) and Wood and Bache 

 (Dispens., p. 1369). 



