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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 me 
made ufe of the bark of the Larch Tree. 
To eat out ■proud Flcjli 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 Li Hies boiled and ftamped 
betwixt two ftones, to a Playfter. 
For Stitches. 
The Firr Tree, or Pitch Tree} 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 
afflifteth thofe poor People that are [63] ftricken with the 
Plagtie 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 lyeth 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 
(/. c, speaking of the pine), "something sluttish." But Higginson says they 
" are very usefull in a house, and . . . burne as cleere as a torch." — Nexv-Eng. 
Plantation, I. c, p. 122. 
