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Note, You muft make a large Toaft, or Cake flit and 
clip it in the Tar, and bind it warm to the Side. 
The moji common Difcafcs in New England. 
The Black Pox, the Spotted Fcavcr, 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, 
that fheds 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 Wounds with Bruifcs. 
I cured once a defperate Bruile 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. 
Spruce 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; hach- 
tnatack.) "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." — Josselyn's 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." — Ibid., p. 66. 
