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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 ftrip'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 fwell'd 
and inflamed, affwaged the fwelling, arid took away the 
inflamation with our Garden or EngliJJi Patience, the Roots 
roafbed. f. Cataplaf. Anno 1670. June 28. 
To dijjfolve a Scirrhous Tumour. 
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., I. c, p. 456) and Wood and Bache 
(Dispens., p. 1369). 
