. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. Ill ii 1/ ii ill 4 m 4 i iiiii f! g^ â ^i'lfc 33 8 December 174S. 'I them In pieces. It will then be rough, and look like cotton. This cotton-like fubftance
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. Ill ii 1/ ii ill 4 m 4 i iiiii f! g^ â ^i'lfc 33 8 December 174S. 'I them In pieces. It will then be rough, and look like cotton. This cotton-like fubftance is dip- ped into brandy, and then put into the hollow tooth, which commonly ceafes to ache loon -ftcr. The brandy is biting or fliarp, and the ieeJs o^the anemone, as mod feeds of the Volynndna Poiygynia clafs of plants (or fuch as havi. Stamina, or male flowers, and many Pijliila, or female flowers) have likewife an acri- mony. They therefore, both together, help to afTuage the pain ; '^'"i Miis remedy is much of the fline kind with the former. Befides that, we have many feeds which have the fame qua- lities with the American anemone. The following remedy was much in vogue agfilnd the tooth-ach which is attended with a fwelling: They boil gruel, of flour of maize, and milk; to this they add, whilft it is yet over the fire, fome of the fat of hogs, or other fuct, and (lir it well, that every thing may mi;^ equally. A handkerchief is then fpread over the gruel, and applied as hot as pofiible to the fwelled cheek, where it is kept till it is gone cool again. I have found, that this remedy has been very eflacacious againft a fwelling j as it leflens the pain, abates the fvv^elling, opens a gathering, if there be any, and procures a good difchargc of the Pus, I HAVE feen the Iroqurfe boil the inner bark of the Srjjil)uci4s Canadenfu, or Caiuhla Elder, and put it on that part of the cheek in which the pain was mod violent. This, I am told, often diminiihcs the pa
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