6  Dr.  Peter  Smith  and  His  Dispensatory.  \^^xy*Xm*' 
speaking  of  the  "  Doctrine  of  Respiration,"  Dr.  Smith  records  an 
Indian  legend  that  should  not  be  lost : 
"An  Indian,  it  is  storied,  when  asked  what  he  thought  was  the  reason  of  the 
ebbing  and  flowing  of  the  tide,  made  answer  :  '  You  know  there  is  a  great  deal 
of  odds  between  a  big  creature  and  a  little  one  ;  a  horse  draws  his  breath  a 
great  deal  slower  than  a  mouse  ;  the  world  is  a  big  creature— he  draws  his 
breath  only  twice  in  the  day  and  night  ;  that  makes  the  tide.'  " 
THE 
INDIAN  DOCTOR'S 
DISPENSATORY, 
BEING 
FATHER  SMITH'S  ADVICE 
RESPECTING 
DISEASES  AND  THEIR  CURE; 
CONSISTING    OF    PRESCRIPTIONS  FOR 
MANY  COMPLAINTS: 
AND  A  DESCRIPTION  OF  MEDICINES, 
SIMPLE  AND  COMPOUND, 
SHOWING  THEIR  YIBTUES  AND  HOW  TO  APPLY  THEM 
DESI03ED  FOR  TUB  BENEFIT  OF  HIS  CHILDREN,  HIS  FBIE***^  A3CD  THE 
PC3L1C,  BUT  MORE  ESPECIALLY  THE  CITIZENS  OF  THE  WESTERN 
PARTS  OF  THE  UNITED!  STATES  OF  AMERICA. 
BF  PETER  SMITH, 
OF  THE  MIAMI  COUNTRY. 
Men  seldom  have  wit  enough  to  prize  and  take  care  of -their 
health  until  they  lose  it— And  Doctors  often  know  not  how  to  get 
their  bread  deservedly,  until  they  have  no  te^th  to  chew  it. 
CIWCIXXJLTI . 
PRINTED  BY  BROWN  E  AND  LOOKER, 
FOR  THE  AUTHOR. 
1813. 
But  it  is  not  of  disease  expressions  and  their  cure  that  we,  as  phar- 
macists, are  chiefly  concerned.    We  find,  in  the  remedies  of  this  old 
