9 6 
For a Cut with a Brufe. 
Alder; An Indian Bruiling and Cutting of his Knee 
with a fall, ufed no other remedy, than Alder Bark, chewed 
falling, and laid to it, which did foon heal it. 1 
To take Fire out of a Burn. 
The deco6tion is alfo excellent to take [50] the Fire out 
of a Burn or Scalld. 
For Wounds and Cuts. 
For Wounds and Cuts make a ftrong decoftion of Bark 
of Alder, pour of it into the Wound, and drink thereof. 
Ha/el? 
For fore Mouths, falling of the Fallal. 
Filderd, both with hairy husks upon the Nuts, and fet- 
ting hollow from the Nut, and fill'd with a kind of water 
of an aftringent tafte; it is very good for fore Mouths, 
and falling of the Pallat, as is the whole green Nut 
before it comes to Kernel, burnt and pulverized. The 
Kernels are feldom without maggots in them. 2 
1 Alnus, Tourn. One of the three New-England species (A. incana, Willd.) is 
common to Europe and America. Another {A. serrulata, Willd.) "bears so 
great a resemblance," says F. A. Michaux, to the common European alder {A. 
glutinosa, Willd.) " in its flowers, its seeds, its leaves, its wood, and its bark, as 
to render a separate figure unnecessary ; the only difference observable between 
them" being "that the European species is larger, and has smaller leaves." — 
Sylva, vol. ii. p. 114. Compare Gray, Statistics, &c, /. c, p. 83. A. viridis, our 
third species, is common to Europe and this country. 
2 Corylus, L. Our species, which are peculiar to America, are both indicated : 
the " filberd, . . . with hairy husks upon the nuts," being C. rosirata, Ait. 
(beaked hazel); and that "setting hollow from the nut," — that is, larger than 
the nut, — C. Americana, Wangenh. (common hazel). 
