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WITH -A-IT -A.E»I>EI]SraDI^ CONTAINING THE CANADIAN HERBAL OR Botanic Family Physician. HAMILTON. MKTH0BI8T JEPISGOPAL BOOK ROOM, 74 KING STllEET BAST. lOU^. ■' ,' MaKammi^imim^-««n,'='»=«^ tt THE LIFE OF iET. SCHUYLER MfART, BJ. — CONTAINING — Interesting Sketohes and Remarkable Incidents — OP HIS — ITIlSrEie.A.3SrT DVIIliTISTIlTr, — IN THE- ti UNITED STATES ^ffl CANADA, WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING— THE CANADIAN HERBAL 1%- — OB— "BOTABIO FAMILY PHISICIM." ** Truth is stranger than Fiction." With a Likeness of tlie Antlior. HAMILTON PUBLISHED AT THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL BOOK-ROOM. 188?. h ri r\ s Canji W.J«i,U imhi^t Mv 6 mA « i I Rev. SCHUYLER STEWART. V mTEODUCTIOK The Rev. Schuyler Siewart, the author of the follow- ing autobiographical sketches, is very well known to the older members of our Church, both east and west. And, we may add with perfect accuracy, favorably known. He is one of the oldest ministers now in the connexion, and a man whose integrity and Christian character has, as far las we know, never been called in question. He is a man lof peculiar mental type and singularity of temperament, ^and his strong personal characteristics are sufficiently ap- parent in the incidents and experiences detailed in these Wtertaining sketches, written by his own hand. Though an American by birth, aa these sketches in* form us, he at a very eariy period in the history of Cana- dian Methodism, cast in his lot with her heroic sons, and adopted this country as his future home. He entered upon his work as a Methodist preacher in Canada at a very interesting and exciting period, and his description of the condition of the people, the difficulties and incon. vemencies of the Methodist itinerant in those days, sounds to the ears of our younger brethen with compact circuits! beautiful churches, and pleasant stations, almost like romance. 'Doctor » Stewart, as he is familiarly called, was Identified with Methodism i;) this country in ite most critical and painful periods In manv of fch« of;_-.., scenes of these days he was an active participator. "Thl^ f!fl!ir *! *^ reminiscences herein portrayed a peculiar mterest and charm to those who may be aWe to recall the ! struggles and triumphs of earlier yeais 8 Having enjoyed a personal acquaintance witli th. ., ^of the« sketches for a peri^l, of abTuttWt: yoar,, and be„,g pe™,^y f^j,;^ witl, many „f tl tooal.to he describe,, and an ey,^witne«, to some of th »^^Be refers to, I W «ad them .u:^ * "^v. I'" °°' °"'y ^""'"'' entertaming readin for both the old and the young who a«, inte JtedT^^! P^ and success of Episcopal Methodism in * ««ntry, but also serve to preserve a record of incid^^ «d f^ ha otherwise might be lost. It is deeply to be «««tted that «, many of our old ministers have passed .way from amongst us for ever, without leaving!^ to us just now. Apart altogether from these historic de ^Is of early Methodism furnished by the author Telt' -dded a very valuable treatise on the value, adlptab^^ »d u« of many of the herbs and roote indig;nous to 2 Z^tT "^' fr " "^^ ^'■""■•'"' H^"^. o' B t^ tive essay on the use and appUcation of these domestfc remed.^ so valuable in every household. We tr^X the friends of our venerable brother everywhere will pro-l cure these « sketches " and that the expectation TfthX »mcere but eccentric author may be mo« than realU. ' rr .,x -., W. PiRRITTE, -tiamiltoD, March I3th, 1882. N.Y profe and < fathe was 4 thou^ work Whe deatli and fully prese yet a ment, when a str with moth< intanoe with the aui f about thirty-twc^ with many of the i ness to some of the a hem with peculiar bertaining readiuj •e intei^sted in th( fethodiflm in thii -ecord of incidental It is deeply to be istershave passed It leaving a record! « be of great value! these historic de-l he author, there is| '^alue, adaptation, indigenous to our ferbal, or Botanic] I gold as a descrip-j f these domestic! • We trust that] fy where will pro- ectation of their] > than realized. W. PiBRITTE. SKETCHES — OF THE^ Life of Rev. Schuyler Stewart. ►♦-•i I was bom in "-he town of Petersburgh, Rensselaer Co., ! N. Y., March 9th, 1804. My parents had long been professors of religion, and members of the M. E. Church; and often in my early childhood I have listened to my father and mother singing hymns of praise to God. I was early impressed while hearing prayer and praise. I thought the people were talking with Him who made the world, and that His creature, man, was praising Him. When I was ten years of age a deliverance from sudden death occurred. A span of horses ran away with me, and being thrown to the ground violently, I was dread- fully bruised in the fall Here an especial Providence preserved my life. Here I was made sensible of death, yet afraid to die ; and while hearing of the Pay of Judg. ment, was convicted oi sin, and incurred mpral guilt whenever I did wrong. One day, being at play, a strange feeling crept ovex me — I had been playing with wickbd boys. I ran into the house and tpld my mother, " I am going to di^, for I have done wickedly. 10 •»d God will take „e out of the world I" or«,„. of a guilty oonacienoe I A(t«i. . <• j ^ '"H over, aud I forgot th, ft k "*''' "y <'"«''» H Soon after «.ird^/:etrt':f:i: r ^'"'^'"i in the door-yarf a |„Z "!f'.'"" »' «>« house and aavf Wohea, w^C^n^:": ■ "IT'^ ^""'« ^ H of his mouth. Iwent^!^C\' '^«' *»PPi"« o« hin. by diffe.«.t n^eTreTlfw!':/'' *"" '"^' "'H turned to go into rt!^ "''' °°' °»««o me. j "Who. ^"'^VZ'v-"^^?^^ *« -7 mother «nap and snari wl,«„ .1 '^t ™tant he began J •J^nt rt; <^^ -^or pulled me iuto the LJ We heen Mtt^^?^ It™ rnT" ^ --1«^ on horeebaok with eaas. anrf ^T w l^ "'" appeared foot Of a mountaiun UheTll't? ^.-- 4 «rmg me &»m a fiightfal de.^ »' O-J «« again WofLTr:;^;^^Ythe striviug^of the the age of fou.:teen I Zn^^T ^^ "^PP'" M B<»y awhile with a ,^ whf ^^^h t~T."""*^' *« joined the'.OloBeOomn.uSoI^r^nTi?'" ''"'*»<^ ^l '^th them to mee^^ ? ^pt-stCShuroh. loftenwent -uld he ■'^T^utZ^'^tTi'^,'^ -^H in^th to come" Tl.. n .• ^" how to "flee the WhilelwTri^hu wt t" ""^ ^^ - bled and threwtf „t CI^^ t;"*"*,"^ ^"-J 'vhen he knocked me downlT^T '"*"«"^ther. deUve«nce from -adden d^tT m 7' ""• ^<^" I thanked God for spLj^ty wf ^X*" "'^''' 1 -cpefrom death occu4d«^naL;^t"°!^r "^'1 «^ «lay, I stopped to ooen a «t^"' J' ""';^"'"'«a team fi«« w open a gate, and as I mounted the days mv fr^K^. 1*^*"°* *^^ ^''"®' suddenly started, and I fell between orthTllthTr L'"^^^ "^"^ "'^'^^•' - ^ ^«"- Th« Worses f the house anCT^P"'' " "^ ^l'^" '^^^'*^ *^^ ^^^ -^-1 ^ A man, I doff sitting n«?I ^"^ ""^ P'^*'*'''' '^"^ ^^^'^ *^*^ ^^^ tl^« horses, fro'^C^rofctT-^^^^^ ''; "^'' "^^" '^^« barely escaped on the heJS ^'J'"*^, this tzme." Again I praised the Lord for deliver- «aa, caiiin Jnce from death and hell, not notice me. n ^' ited to my motherl ^^^' ^^^^ ^^^°S ^^^^ at night, I was afraid to go instant he began tSP ^^^^* ^®^* ^ ^^^^^^ ^*^® "^ despair before morning. I me into the housel^®'' promised God that if he would forgive my sins the nore and I woul(M*^ P**** ^ ^^^^^ behave better to-morrow. Yet, having two men appeared ^®*^ P'°^® ^ ®^^» ^^ °° ^^^ telling me " Jesus Christ "^ad still power on earth to forgive sins," in me were ful- illed the words of the poet, "Lo, I repent and sin again," iU I dare pray no More. At other times I longed to find ie people of God, but shame, guilt and fear prevented le from telling my feelings to any one. About this time iroh Tnft ' "■**f''^^V*'^°'^°'^*^'''''^®^*^«««>^«««»d shouts ^a'f^f TX ^' P^P^' °^ ^ ^^ °^« ^*^ *^« ^d a secret .oTLXrl"^! t!r ^ "^^^ ^*^'"' •'" ^"PPy* ^^« ^««1^« a desire ^w to flee the^ belong to the praying army and march with tiiem to «^n visited us.|the "promised land." I had from my childhood heard night he stum-fhe Methodist preacher^ whom I loved, but feared, look- th rose together, ling upon them as the faithful setvants of God • yet ' me. Another lafraid to enlist, lest my wicked companions should diiw «me to myself, Ime back to sin and folly. 01 my evUheart of unbeKefl ttotier narrow 1 1 human depravity 1 I mounted the q boys of his own, Uving in the city of Troy, K Y., wished t»im dead near th I of God in again » strivings of the M unhappy. At Patoga county, to >r husband, had 12 me to come and live with him till I became of age, when he intended to give me charge of his business. Mj parents let me go. Here I had an opportunity of going to different places of worship, yet was drawn mostly to hear the Methodists j but my uncle did not like them. The Methodists told me my situation out of Christ, while the Spirit of the Almighty awakened me in such a manner as m^e me tremble on the brink of ruin and wish myself a Christian I Having no encouragement to serve God from py uncle or his famUy, and companioning with a herd of wicked boys also, I again and again " grieved the . Spirit of God," and refused to ** Yield to His love's resistless power, And fight against my God no more." I was followed still by the Holy Spirit, until finally shame, guilt, and fear gave way to a real "godly sorrow," which worked repentance unto salvation, which needeth not to be repented of; and being willing to give up my heart to the Lord Jesus, I at once made the surrender, cry- ing, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." The adorable Redeemer that moment said to my sin- sick soul, " I will, bo thou clean." My guilt being now removed, the « love of God was shed abroad in my heart." Here a new creation arose within me, and I rejoiced with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Oh ! the joy in having i my sins "blotted out." This happened at the age of| seventeen, the second week in January, 1822. I soon after joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, which com- J. . ^. „. .^._ii5, iiiiiiV4j^^ jii j^g cicy &z ziiis time. In openly confessing Christ before men in the class-room, in prayer-meetings and in love-feast, my 13 joy increased, my heart enlarged, and I commenced pray- ing my young companions and former associates, in Christ's stead, « to be reconciled to God." Some would hear, while others would make light of these things. I soon met with persecution from my shopmates, who, being dis- turbed and sorry to lose so bold a champion of the devil as I Lad been, tried to persuade and then hire and then to drive me to dispense with religious conversation, but I told them, « If you will go with me to heaven, here's my heart and here's my hand, but if you will not, I cannot go with you any farther in the way to ruin." One day, my uncle came into the shop after I had reproved a man for swearing and said, " What is this altercation, about 1 '^ They said, "Schuyler is talking about religion." My uncle struck me. I told him God would bring us into judgment for our words and actions. He struck me again saying, « Will God bring me into judgment fofr striking youl Glory to God ! my soul was happy in affliction, and all my sufferings only made me stronger in the Lord, "and in the power of His might." At another time one of the men railed against the Bible, while I was defending It as the word of Truth. My uncle came in again afe dinner time and told me to hold my tongue, and swore he « would have no more religious conversation about his premises." I told him I had as much right to preach as they had to swear and curse and trifle with religion, for I was sure the cause of God was better than the service of Satan ; jind although I was bound to obey him in temporal things, in npiritical I must obey God rather than man. He took up a rod, saying, " If you say any more I'll strike yor.." I told him I was u Zoryt,T' '° 'r ""» -"»««' k«U''^ body." cuttmg a g«,h m «« of my arm,, and bru«mg me el«^ h.ppy m God I I «« to him, « Y„„ perceive my boll of God to believe, < these light affliotioM, which are L ^f ?i7 =*"•'«'«'««« to »often, and «... "You would have had plenty of fine clothes ii the mZ mtr^l^ "»; '•?"«' y<>»" I "Plied " You cannot J' my rel^^on for fine clothe,. I h«l rather beg my bre^d to^footed to heaven than ride in a co«A to hell." ^t. mir "I''* "* '^'' "™ -™' 'WkoVou another blow m the world " Taiu. »<^f:i:.j i.- • . I thnn.Kt ii,- , r ■ " testified his sincerity. I thought Hus would have a good efiTect in making him consider his latter end, yet it only Usted for a l^n old bro her «ud to me, " Yon are going where, perhaps, you wUl have le«, persecution; take care or you^l gi back to the world again." ;■ » wui go p»«,hmg the Gospel ; yet I felt my inability and ig. noHtnce to that degree that I cried to . .• , wisdo* known to the (^urch my call" The words of Jesus fell t^7r 7\ ^^ ■"" '"• *«" "«y^ fo" ■"""'H and «7,l7=7""r" "'"'"■.'.' ""' °P your eyes and look on the i.4.!d, for they are white almdy unto the harvest." Having ,< '..d t:.:, society in Milton, Saratoga County, Montgom kill ih3 body." ' with the rod, lising me else- 1 was so very ceive my bold« i^e been taught iv^hich are but ig and eternal ©n, and giuu, >s if the Meth- [)u cannot buy beg my bread > hell." Put. p strike you his sincerity, making him for a season. [ left the city relatives. An ere, perhaps, you -will go >y commence Hty and ig- tor wisdom ^'^ 111 make )f Jesus fell months, and look on the st." Having , Montgom- 15 ery District, I was soon in a, revival ot religion. Scores were brought from thfl " power of Satan unto God." Here the society voted me license to exhort, and in a few nionths I went to live with a Brother at Salmon Kiver, Os^f 1)^0 County, when I was licensed to preach at Mex- ico, 0' w.jgo Co., Feb. 18th, 1826. Rev. Daniel Bameo, P. E., gave out for me to preach. He was present on Sab- bath evening, with N. Salisbury, another P. E., also two Circuit Preachers and one Local Preacher, and the brick academy was full of people. My text was, " And Felix trembled." And I am sure I trembled. The next diay Mr. Barnes said, '* I commend you for one thing. La "«"« to '^t a family and mtrodnce the object of religion without prayer. ^ felt P^*"/ "S"' '^ °* "y ""^ «» Watertown, Jef- femn County, N. Y., among Deists and Univers^ists dei'Ta.^'ll" '•'"""'« ""' "^^^ '«^-* '^- fo?^r n ^'"''*""«'*- TI.«y believe that suffering for sm wll eventually bring to heaven the hmnan r^* k thf J r ^"^ *'«»«' to ™PP<»e that if sin »tte cause of suffering, sufferingwill rervesinl iZ Watertown whe« the power of God was manifested^ w^r . ^ *^*^' manifestation of God's power KeSns .'^ 1 i"^ ^7 D^triot. Pread>ed from The W„T" • ,. . "^' ^y "■"'"8'' Heaven," &c. lie Word, quick and powerful, took such effert thil scores were seen dropping down like n=enlot fnt. tie ^e preacher had to pause several times and C o^ tte »tend to keep from falling himself. The fire f"m tul meetmg was scattered in all tbn ...^ j- hund«.is being brought to (L thllT^?"? T""''^' talitv nf f 1,0 n 1 « through the instrumen- .i| 17 and after earnest prayer to God for assistance, joined him in the work. I commenced travel- ing Oct. 1st, 1827. Our circuit contained the following townships, viz., Orwell, Redfield, Ansville, Florence, and Winstown. Revivals followed our feeble efforts. At one of our preaching places in Redfield, called the Dutch set- tlement, the people were so overwhelmed by the presence of God that shouts of praise would often drown the voice of the preacher, who was constrained to shout with them, while the noise was "heard afar off." Several of the people would often fall to the ground on their way home from meeting. One old doctor came along one day, whUe Sister Rima lay on the ground in the road, and others were shouting Mad dnging around her. I was in company with his son, who had joined the Church. The old doc tor, who had been an infidel for twenty-five years, swore at us, and, with a scornful laugh, caUed us "fools," and rode on. Soon after Mrs. Rima was seized with sickness, which terminated in death. The doctor attended her] and beheld her ecstacy, while suffering the most excruci- ating pain. The woman finally died, shouting " Happy.'' The doctor was forced to confess that nothing but an Al- mighty God could sustain a human being under such cir- cumstances. Conviction fastened on his guilty soul. He took his bed, and for three months was visited by the doctors, who could not tell his complaint. He soon told it himself by crying, « God be merciful to me, a sinner.'' In answer to prayer, the Lord converted his soul. He became a bold soldier of the Cross, and scattered infidelity to the winds in the surrounding country. At the close of the year I found myself much worn with toil, and w 18 studies and become better fitted to preach the GosDel mo« aucoesBfuUy. Hence I worked at my trade 0!:^ to pay for my board, and spent my time in study at in- ««e» to theu hbrar.es and my own books, preaching 7z:::zz' '''"'''""'' -^'^^ -- -- ^^J^^^ ' ^^"°'" ""™' '" Willi»>»»town brought TZJ'^ people into the M. E. Church. Among those brought to Christ was Anna M. Orten, who ^, ^^en,, declared that I was an instrument under G^I in ^d Ann M., and we we« married April 30th, 1829. Three circurt pr<«cher, and one handed guest^ wew present mher &ther>. I.o„«,at the wedding^TfoId my companion a humble followe, of Christ. We S^ «««t onj,y„.e„t in attending the means of gj^ot «.rtWy prospects, however, wereofdiortduraL forcoL eumpfon, that insidious disease, had marked ier«^ «ctam Her father's family, with on. except^ ^e^ w^h a Our only chad, Emily Ann, she wisL LeZ pv, to her mother. I complied with her ™,„est. aL« left me for her home in heaven Nov 91 isxiP J. ^^ three vB»r. Qk. .. ""^f"^*"^- ''^> '831, aged twenty. .H^rdi^r^g^-rr----- meet to part no more forever 1" My bereavement could only be real^ed by those who have been deprived 7tl 19 earthly companion. Blessed be God ! His grace sustained me, for I felt that my loss was her gain, with a glorious prospect of a heavenly re-union I Soon after, two young men, while in the Prince Edward District, C.W., saw a local preacher at Hallowell, Joseph Daily, who was disabled by an accident from managing his business, and wanting some one to take charge of it, recommended me to him. He wrote to me accordingly. I arranged my affairs, and came to Canada in 1831. I found his business too great for me to assume the responsibility of managing. Hence I commenced teaching school, and soon formed an exten- sive acquaintance. Being pleased with the country, and preaching in and about Hallowell, the Lord blessed me with his presence. I was at the Conference at Hallowell in 1832, when the « Union," so called, was introduced ; heard the arguments in its favor, and supposed the sacri- fice which I made, with others, in giving up Episcopacy, would be made up in the general good to both branches of Methodism. However, in a short time, I, with many others, was sadly disappointed. The « Union " was con- summated in 1833, while regulations concerning local preachers were introduced, depriving them of privileges which they had enjoyed previously, without their consent. I say « without their consent." Although these rules were broughtbeforetheQuarterly Meeting Conferences, yet these Conferences had only one local preacher to twenty-five or thirty official members, and sometimes no local preacher on the circuit, and the *' Unionist " preachers told the officials these changes would benefit the local preachers. The officials, many of them without that respect for local preachers which they should have had, voted away their 20 V ntw^T'\ "* """' °' '^^ P"'«'''««' ■«<• People never dHl submit to auch anjnrt p««eedings, ^ Re- mained " Episcopal Methodists." "« , ana re- I may be asked, « Why did you go with the ITnion 1 - »T'"^'-^T'"'* ^"""BishopSmith andBishopRich- ardson did, for the sake of peace, yielding my ind.Vid^ merest for the general good, for I was aLng »trC« a«d must leave the country forever, or make the y>^7i Inl T^' f*"** ^ ™''*"'"^ "''■ f'^'^S '^ t««oh. ^^t ^r*"" ^''"" ^ '^"' *" '^'«^' ^ "» ">»<»» to Zl rr^ Accompanied by a friend, I repaired to Grape Mand, on the Bay Q„i„te, near BellevilkThere tr^I rT.'^f "™- "" P"^""* »"»»« t'x' » tmngular steel bell, to caU the people to wonAip. The them. Their mterp,«ter would take more time in telling of the Holy One was in the midst. Such sweet singing I never heard before from human voices, accorfZto the« number. After preaching I walked throug^the viUa^ and m every house the squaws were frying musk- T^Z^r .'''" °"'^' »oene brought to"^:* n^d the B ble where .t « written, " Every cre»t„« of (M is good. Eev. Wm. Case has been successful in leading the red men of the forest to follow Christ, and Indian preachers have befln raJoo^ «« -^ . . .. • countrymen m the wilderness the Gospel of Peace An epidemic, viz., scarlet fever, at Hay Bay, Adolphus. 21 town, this winter, .1834, brought me out to combat its ravages. God so blessed my attention to those attacked with the disease that not one in a hundred died. My simple remedies, in this and other diseases, I have pub- lished in a work called " The Canadian Herbal." Scarlet fever commenced in the family of Cornelius Valleai. I was sent for, and when I arrived I found their second daughter dying. She lived but a few min- utes after I entered the house. Many of the young peo- ple in the neighborhood were present, who caught the disease and spread it in the vicinity. In a short time scores were affected with the malady. The eldest brother, who came more than thirty miles to attend the funeral of his sister, went home and spread the disease in his own family. I was sent for, and, accompanied by a guide, started on foot, arriving at his shanty in the night, in the township of Hungerford, which had but three fami- lies, viz., Valleau, Williams and Munro. I succeeded, with God's blessing, in saving Valleau's family and the others from death. The next morning after my arrival at Valleau's, I saw wolves running on the ice across Lime Lake. Some one at Bay Quirte composed verses in reference to the destitute families in Hungerford. I subjoin a few of them : " If zeal or sympathy have place With you, ye ministers of grace. At duty's call, awake- Go visit Williams and Munro, Ard him, your worthy friend Valleau, Foor exiles at Lime Lake. Those generous souls are far removed From all they once esteemed and loved, And from the house of prayer ; 22 V How many Sabbaths have they spent In mutual grief and sad lameS- -WO sanctuary there ! . " Hark ! how they call for Gospel aid ^"hungry for the living bread And faint with long delay! While those who slight the means of grace And Gospel hardened reprobates. ^ ' Have preaching twice a day. .Z^Tf^"^ '^"'^ or no eompen^tion formyaomoea- ^adofthe opportunity to do g^nl to the bodL LTu as the souls of men I ®^^ «tement I succeeded, with God's Seeing, in'^^t^ the hTes of those children. Fifteen yea« af tSwLs ITf oami^nxeeting ne.„ the pUc^ the yom« ™^!l: ^ battel by the rabid dog. The animals bitten by him betoreand after he bit the chUdren. aU run mad IhT. »red e^ht who we™ bitten by a 'mad dS / h'::: ^n :n Canada. My own life was sa^ed ionlLs2 »abl^ me to save the U.es of other/ from a ^^h^ In the fall of this vmt la^n d»_ x , ^ Chairman of the Bay oFqu^;^' SL'^^wirS 23 preachers, urged me to enter the travelling connexion. After many misgivings, with regard to my physical and mental power to endure the hardships connected with an itinerant life ; and after much prayer for grace and wis- dom to direct, I equipped myself, and started for Cavan Circuit, as an assistant to Rev. John Black. The circuit contained the following townships : Cavan, Monaghan, Em- ily, Ops, Mariposa, Smith, Otonabee, and Aaphodel, mostly settled by emigrants living in shanties, in which we preached. We had one meeting-house, built of logs, in Emily, with no chinks or plaster between the logs. Hence the house was colder than a barn, and people were in danger of freezing while at meeting sometimes. The^ Bice Lake Indian Mission was connected with our work, and one of us preached once in two weeks to the Indians, and occasionally visited Mud Lake Indian MiBsion. I was sick several timos from severe labor and expo- sure, and once or twice I came near dying, yet the good Lord sustained me. The kindness of the people cheered me. Once, during the winter, I left the ice on Rica Lake, and went up the channel of Otonabee River, a deep channel with thick underbrush on its banks. The ice cracked under my horse. It was a rainy day and the ice was breaking up. I ran up the channel of the river to the bridge in a'perspiration, mounted my^horse in the *^g, thankful for my escape, and rode three miles to my appointment. After preaching, I retired to rest. I awoke in a violent fever, and traveled the next day fifteen miles through the woods to my next appointment in great pain. JMext day, being Sabbath, I traveled fourteen mUes and preached three times. At my third appointment, in 24 joioing ! ^ ^®°^ °" °^7 way re- T ni I, ^ ,*** *oeyear, I went with my colleague He™ a*',„I"''' °'^'"°' «-«-* held i/^S iiere a ludicrous scene occurred. Mr T *i, r. dent tiat I preferred Webatar-i. TMmi • ation. With a tow ofh^t, j u P "* pronnnci- ster-s i» »n I • ''*^' ^^ exolaimed, " Web. JBnghsh. Confine yourself to Walker." I replied ^. I no hoU m th«r lamps. O-i-I does not spell ■ hoU/ sir i" Koh ^1 i- """«'" "* ^'-'^ B-XI^k. in ti^e c^r^rrx^ars:\.\i«tp^- present said <.t' * . One of the English preachers LraL::td l^psrin'z '''^'^. r ^°" j« i I , ""^ -treaiaent in this manner" T imma. diately turned to him, and said « Vn„ y, repf vn„^ ^ ' ^°^ '^^^^ reason to cor- Tthk V™K r"""*"*'"'"' *« I "^^ yo« pray since vo„ ,•„ J* 7' ■"'™" "' °*'^°8 '*«'°'" ""d not long youngsters reported that ' the preacher wfehed to hang d me with w^rm b on my way re- this circuit, till ith my colleague, •Id in Belleville. I'— I the Eng- 3d me on different - Among others, [ told the Presi- ary in pronunci- claimed, "Web- ir*s Dictionary is I replied, "I is District Meet- virgins who had ipell *hoil,^sir!» raddock, in the Washington, who 11 way, "High teach a British ttglish preachers <^art, that you Jier." I imme- ^e reason to cor- »ard you pray d would make ou wanted God i;and not long halter.* Some ished to hang 25 ;hem.' This produced roars of laughter. Soon I was appointed to preach in the evening, but my colleague egged that, as the business of the meeting had closed, e were anxious to return to our circuit with its numerous ippointments ; hence another preacher filled my place in ;he evening. I was received on trial at the Conference in 1835, and appointed, with Rev. J. Norris, to Nelson Circuit. We had twenty-four appointments every four eeks. The circuit embraced Nelson, Trafalgar, a part ►f Toronto, Esquesing, Erin, and Nassagaweya. This vas a year of heavy toil to me. Having determined lever to disappoint a congregation, storm and sunshine oundmeatmy work. Several churches were built or •epaired during this year. A noted revivalist came on ;he circuit, and was successful in inducing scores to come forward for prayer, and have their names taken on proba- ion in the Church, while a large majority were yet un- econcUed to God. He would then report so many aa aving joined the Church, and finally leave for another lace, acting on the same principle. What was the re- JBult? Three-quarters of these persons, in spite of all the efforts of the Church, went back to the world again, who [had been converted to Father Long and not t Christ ! My spirit was grieved, in seeing so many persons awak- ened to see their danger, and, soon after, give up seeking salvation. I concluded that such persons would need seven times the influence to lead them to seek salvation m earnest. I am fully convinced that everypartial work of mm KUid, by whomsoever conducted, does great injury to the cause of Christ. A large number this year, I believe were soundly converted to God, who have maintained • iSHS I 26 Christian character to this day, while others have ijone home to heaven I * I became more and more dissatisfied with the working of the Union, and concluded, at the end of the year, tq W the country if not better satisfied with the state o things. I finally concluded to give up an itinerant lif J and act as a local preacher again. I had spent my timJ money and labor in the work, while the small amount ] received hardly kept me in decent clothes, and not bein, Of a catchpenny propensity, many others were full while I waa in need ; and, as I did not complain, many nobli friends who would have supplied my wani« were not conl scious of them. I had Uved single unto this time sincJ the death of my wife, giving away to those who wen needy. It was now necessary that I should go among m^ reUtions, or get married again. Every idea of doing sc, I had for years banished from my mind, but now coil ed It was^e best thing I could do. There was a rule m tie « Wesleyan Discipline " that "any preacher whc i^uld marry, while on trial, would be dropped from the l^avelmg Connexion." I became perfectly willing folate that rule, and did so accordingly, by getting man ned, March 6th, 1836, to Miss SaraJi Teeple, of n2 «on. Her father's house for years had been a home fon' tne weary itinerant. I sent a note to Kev. J. Richardson, then chairman ol Toronto District, that I was married, and would attend] the District Meeting at Yonge Street, which I did, stat mg to the brethren present that I had violated a rule off ^iscipime in getting married, and did not wish to be r J tamed in the Traveling Connexion. A number of the 27 jpreacliers wished to plead my case before the Conference, and had no doubt I would be continued on trial. I replied "If you violate the rule in my case, you may in tweufcy [others. Hence abide by your rules, and I am sat- isfied." Having become a local preacher again, and having a wife of strong physical and mental energy, we gathered our little together and commenced housekeeping at the Twelve Mile Creek, Dundas Street, renting a house for the time being. In a few months we bought a house |and lot near the village of Palermo, in Trafalgar town- iship. My wife having had much experience in nursing the sick, became a valuable assistant to me in my prac ticeasa "Botanic Doctor.- Our house soon became thronged with patients from the surrounding country. Much of the time for several years our house was an hos! pital ; and, with God's blessing, scores were benefitted by vegetable medicinal agents. During this time, as a Wesleyan local preacher, I had two or three appoint, ments every Sabbath, also assisting the circuit preachers in protracted meetings, etc. I sometimes feared I would sink under my excessive labors, yet the hand of God held xne up. In 1837 a rebellion broke out, which was speedily sup- pressed, yet some noble young men lost their lives in da. fense of the country, by exposure. In 1840 a disruption took place between the « Wesleyan Methodist Church " in Canada, and tho " Wesleyans " in England. A disso- . .^.^ „„^ au-4,«iiuu uniou watt the result. A growing dissatisfaction, which had been increasing for years, now culminated in entire discouragement, and I was sorry 28 sometimes that I had ever come to Canada to wh\ ness so much turmoil and strife among ministers of the Gospel. To tear myself abruptly away from my numerl ous Wesleyan friends I did not think was the best thii for me to do; yet as the way opened in 1843) at the close of our Quarterly Conference, my character having passed before a large official board, I immedii ately asked a certificate of my standing. It was granted! when T immeuiately connected myself with the Metho-j dist Episcopal Church in Canada. Perhaps I shoulc • h%ye gone with them from the beginning, yet I hao adopted a rule in early life that, « Courage is no farther commendable than there is hope of success." It seemec that the struggling host, amid persecution, and enduring great hardships, would eventually succeed in maintaininL their allegiance to the M. E. Church, and, bless the LordJ they have succeeded gloriously ! Yet the hardships of aJ itinerant life to me, already worn with heavy toil, seemed! -greater than I could bear. The Wesleyan preachers hadf urged me to enter the Traveling Connexion again, while! I steadily refused to comply with their request. When ll came back to the « Old Hive," where God converted mej among the Episcopal Methodists, a plea was set up that at all hazards I should engage in the itinerant work. "A large ,field to cultivate, and so few laborers," was urged upoi me with such force that I finally yielded and joinec the Conference, and was ordained (deacon's orders) u 1843t Mj first appointment was BrockviUe Station, fiftj Mxiies below iLingston, hj the Kiver St. Lawrence. W^ sent our goods down the Lake and River, and wendec er, and wendec 29 ir way sev ral hundred milea by land. Arriving in ^rockville the laatof October, in a heavy snow storm, we >und some kind people. I had two appointments in the ■)wn, and one in the country every Sabbath. The mount which I received for my year's labor hardly paid ay moving expenses. However, 1 did not shrink from luty, but labored to the end of the year, according to the lest of ray ability. The Lord blessed my labors, in some legree at least, during this year. Our next Conference, 1844, met at Farmersville. At lis Conference I obtained a transfer to the Niagara Con- srence, in consequence of the cold climate. This year ly field of labor contained Oxford, Zorra, Nissouri, and Menheim Townshijje. My colleague was A. Bursee. Our leld of labor at that time now comprises four or fivesta- lons, or fields of labor. One old chapel, in Bt^amer's neigh- brhood, near Princeton, propped up with timber to pre- |ent it from falling, constituted all the church property In the circuit. We moved into an old rickety house in the Hcinity, where the kindness of friends, in supplying our temporal wants, made our stay pleasant among them. Gvery month I was absent wo weeks from home at a ime. Bro. Bursee rigged a log hut in Oxford, and lived Dmparatively comfortable. A good number were added ) the Church this year. Our preaching place at IngersoU l^as a blue school house, since occupied by the colored leople as a place of worship. In 184.5, being ordained ]ldor, my appointment was London Circuit. This was a jear of trial and persecution. One-fourth of the mem- krs of the Church were affected with MiUerism, and with 11 my prudence and caution our church suffered a consid- I 30 »able lo» We had one pa«o„age at Kilworth, River Tham , but not a chapel on the oirouit, which ooiprisIS the following townahips, viz., London, Lobo, Cakdoc Dekwa« and Dorchester. In Dema^'s «ttlem^ a society. Immemonwts " were very busy, trvine to proselyte the young converts. I preached li cSun Baptjsn, and we dammed up a brook in a ravine whe« I pnnkled, poured and imma«ed the people, accorfT ^o werong'wrr" '° "--'^""S- -" «"«->= ™„*^''fTu*^'"'"'™'" '"^ ^"•'"' MM°°- Perhaps I Put p, \^^ ^"'' °' '*''" «"'''™^ ""present PuUerton, B anshard, Logan, Downey, and a parte Zorra township. A two week's plan has been adopted, Im-te^d of passmg over a larger field once in four we^ks. - ^„ «.ntrat.onapd organization 'is the watchword, 'Salva- tion, holiness and heaven,' the theme ! Already the pie m their habitations forms a prominent part of mLs- terial duty, yet success has and will attend such efforts I found a number of persons who said, ' We have not en- joyed a sacramental occasion, nor have we been in a class or prayer-meeting for years. ' ' ffl.!.* «?,"«•»"» souls are far removed T.f} 'l«y »■».<=« esteemed and loved, ^iiiu iiuia cne liouse of praver How many Sabbaths liave they spent mutual Brief and ««,! lament— ' f No san ictuftry there, 5 It Kilworth, River which comprised liobo, Caradoc, I's settlement a umber united in busy, trying to Jd on Christian • ravine, where I le, according to ates have their f, and the work ion. Perhaps I Q a commnnioa- ied Zorra, Nov. aces at jjresent a part of Zorra iopted, instead «^eek8. ' Con- iword, 'Salva- Already the ^ing with peo- part of minia- l such efforts, e have not en- been in a class [ 31 Yet amidst privation and many hardships the people ited me kindly. Often I have enjoyed a good repast )m a dry oatmeal cake, by the side of a good spring, in the wilderness. I found dram drinking a dreadful evil in ithese new settlements, and in addition to other appoint. Iments, I attended temperance meetings in many places, [exhibiting Dr. Sewell's plates of the human stomach. J More than two hundred agreed to abandon dram I drinking. Some of them afterwards became recon- jciled to God, and joined the Church. I returned at Con- I f erence ninety, composing five classes. I received at Confer- fence more for my services from the missionary fund than [all I had received in three years past. The people I wished me to return to the mission again. I told the I Stationing Committee that I could not stand the work, my health was failing. However, I was sent to the Thames Circuit the next year, 1847, which I found a harder field of labor than that of the Huron Mission. It might be truly said of me that I " jumped out of the fry- ing pan into the fire." My wife's health was in a precari- ous state from former hardships, and I expected there would be a breakdown with both of us before the close of the year. Thames Circuit was composed of the following townships, viz., Moore, Zone, Dawn, and Camden, extend- ing on the Long Woods road above Wardsville, to Gee's Bridge, and from Smith's mills, above Dobbyn's, to near the Forks on the south branch of the Sydenham. Rickety bridges, sickly inhabitants, and wading in marsh water made traveling hard ; and one-third of the people were 80 stupefied with chill fever and ague, at least four months in the year, that it was difficult to fix their '■wwHWRwiiniNn 32 ^tiononGod. Agloomymind and sallow coantenanoe best thought a quarter of a doUar a quarti w«, a great sum to pay the preacher. At the oloi of the ^Lr I had reoe,ved su. dollars in money, with some table ex- P^^es and hors^keeping. In two places, where forty or «ty were m society yea,, ago, no society now existed, m consequence of circumstances growing out of or con nected w„h the union in 1833, or its dissolution in mo , deaths and removes had also contributed in some degree to thas A few we™ admitted into society, and 7ZlT ' "T "*"""" '""'^ *''« y-- Among the number waa a class leader, sixty years of age, and I 1<«.1 preacher and his family. This Circuit hi been d.T.ded mtoseyer»I fields of labor since, churches built, e" I was appointed in 1848 and 1849 to Malahide Cir- cuit and contmued two years in another sickly section of the country, particularly the south part -f it Miasma," arising from surface water drying ip ^^Jl ae air pestilential; when efforts were Ide'to'ilt tte fever, persons were inhaling poisoned airwhile trying to get rid of the disease. Hence they must wear it o< If having physical life enough to endure it, or sink finally under its ravages. When we came to this Circuit we found a new parsonage partly covered, and the preacher, C. W. Fr^zer, wife and son, lying sick with fever inside of It. We moved into a house one-half mile from the parsonage, and nursed Frazer and hi, family tiU they were able to move awav. Wb t.hon o,.,ni"^.J - „ ». and lasristed him at leisure moments^kiprn; ZZIp. pointments from Vienna to i>orchester. Mrs. Stewart 33 fcl80 was busy in getting funds and collecting materials to 5iiish and pay for the house, and by the first of Decem- >er we had a comfortable parsonage paid for. There ^as but one chapel on the Circuit, called « Burdick's," on ^albot street, and this only a « union " house. It' was left dirty and disagreeable, and here I would say once for all, that as far as my knowledge extends, all catch-all or inion meeting houses have been and still are a nuisance In the community. On this and other fields of labor I bave lectured on temperance, and have seen hundreds bign the pledge, which prohibits the use of intoxicating arinks as a beverage. The man wko takes his honest gains And throws them in the sea, We 11 call him blockhead for his pains And say a fool is he ; But sure the fool is twice as bad, Who drinks his cash to make him mad ! Near the close of this year a new chapel was finished near Rev. C. Pettis's residence, now called Springfield and dedicated the Sabbath before I left for Conference. On my way to Conference, in company with J. N. Elhott, we faced a cold rain storm from the east. I be- came chilled, and the fever came on in the evening at my mother-in-law's, Jersey Settlement. I had been for years mhaling « miasma," and used remedies to keep off the fever, yet hard toil and constant exposure broke me at last. I had become very dyspeptic, by going half [starved sometimes, eating breakfast earl v. ur^A ^*^.„ [going till 10 o'clock at night, after preach-' [mg three times on Sabbath, before I would eat again. My digestive powers became paralyzed, N 14 ' ■ 34 so that the most nourishing food would no longer agree with me. When at Conference, at Palmero, my chills and fever increased. I was often delirious. When Conference appointed me to Dorchester Circuit, in 1850 I could not go to the work, and consequently moved home to my old place of residence, Palermo, Dundas Street. We found our old place of residence in a condition of waste and destruction, our drive-house broken and shrubbery destroyed or broken, and my health gone' and but httle money after paying my moving expenses! We were forced to sell some of our bedding to obtain the necessaries of life. However, we found some old friends who sympathized with us and freely supplied some of our wants. My brother's son, from Michigan, visited me, and greatly assisted me during a few months in the winter, in supplying our stove with wood and other chores which I could not do myself. This gave me time to write a littfe- every day. I compiled during this winter the « Canadian Herbal, or Botanic Family Phy- sician," containing a variety of Indian remedies and medicinal plants of this country, and adapted to various forms of diseases, having studied anatomy and physiology sufficiently to understand the human system in some degree at least. I have spent much time, when not en- gaged in ministerial duty, visiting and nursing the sick with simple or vegetable remedies gathered and prepar- ed by my own hands, and without fee or reward on every Circuit where I have preached the Gospel. The '• •^=^°»'^--* wxwi uua» Diesamg 18 an ample compensation. When not traveling the Circuit, located etc., myself and wife have been paid for attendance upon 35 Ihe sick again and again. Since I have been in Canada Bod has permitted me to preach to the Indians by inter- preters, at Grape Island, Mud Lake, Rice Lake, River Credit, Grand River, etc., to Chippewas, Mohawks, )neidas, Tuscaroras, etc. I have been successful in ob- ainiag much knowledge of " Indian remedies," perhaps ttie most from Dr. Hill, an old Mohawk at the Grand ^iver. In 1851 I was supernumerarr, but my lealth so improved that I joined brothers Hay- rard and Foster in a six weeks circuit, which 3ok in Nelson, Nassagaweya, Eramosa afid the bity of Hamilton. We held a protracted meeting in Nassagaweya, where the Most High displayed His power In the salvation of many. Hamilton city also shared in revival influence. In 1852 I was employed by the Niagara Conference as an agent to collect accounts for Jour printing astablishment at Hamilton. I traveled Hhrough Niagara and Bay of Quinte Conferences during the year, and my percentage amounted to about forty Idollars for my year's labor. In 1853 one of the preachers Ion the Nelson Circuit, H. Taylor, ceased traveling, and II took his place the remainder of the year. Although Ifeeble in body, yet the Lord blessed me in the work. j In 1854 I changed my old place of residence for one in Ancaster. We moved in the fall, and soon commenced clearmg, building and improving. My health improved gradually, and soon our residence became more comfort- I able than the old one. Wr ha^A ]i^Ti.A «x,^„ „; u-i. jJerseyville and Lynden. I continued to assist the I preachers on the Circuit from time to time, according to i my strength, in a supernumerary relation to the Confer- U:ii 36 ence In 1856 the preacher appointed to Caledonia, Grand River, refused to go. I was urged by thepresiding elder to go and fill the work. I went, and at the end of BIX months I found my strength failing, and changed with a young preacher for an easier field, viz., Echlin's and Kockton, on the Waterloo road. In 1858 I was appointed by the Conference to Barton Circuit, extending from Ancaster village to Stoney Creek. During this year a ^eat many joined the M. E. Cht.rch. This was a year tT/Jf\ u" T' '" *'^ -pernumerary list again, m I860 I labored five months in the year with the preacher on Dumfries Circuit. In 1861 I was sent to form a mission on the Grand River below Caledonia. I labored on until worn down in the work. This was the last time I ventured to take work from the Conference. From that time to the present, 1882, my name has ap peared on the minutes, a superannuated preacher, Niagara Conference. At the General Conference held at Orono a sliding-scale was introduced, which finally became law that superannuates were to receive from the fund accord- ing to the years of effective service as appointed by the Conference A preacher who had traveled twenty years one hundred dollars ; ten years, fifty dollars, etc Al-' though I had traveled years as a supernumerary, yet hav- ing been effective eleven years only, as appointed by the Conference, I have received only part of former disciplin- ary allowance. However, that little has been a ^eat ^elp to me. I preach occasionally, attend Sabbath ocnool restivflla for«««.. .• .^A ^i, ~; --F— "^« i^^eangs, aeii some Bibles and other religious works, work on my little place some to obtain the comforts of life, saying with my wife [as St. Paul said, " These hands have ministered to our necessities." I will now subjoin a few dangers and escapes, or a few [scenes in the, wilderness in connection with an itin- erant LIFE. When traveling the Oavan Circuit, in 1835, at Pigeon Creek, township of Emily, I urged the people to abandon dram-drinking ; many had found a drunkard's grave lalready, and several had frozen to death while in a state jof intoxication. A man who had a liquor shanty swore Ihe would kill me for injuring his traffic in alcohol. The Ipeople told me I was in danger, as the man, who wa^ a JCathohc, hunted me with a club from shanty to shanty. I kept out of his reach till night, when I left the neighbor- pood ; he started in pursuit. However, my horse being the fleetest I out-distanced him. After following me five or SIX miles he gave up the pursuit. I was cheered by [the reflection that " S® ^^** ^Shts and rung away, May live to fight another day." Another escape from drowning took place while on the London Circuit. My horse stmyed away from meat Kettle Creek, and I borrowed one to fill my appoint- ^ents. While late in the fall I was passing over Caradoc i Plains to attend an appointment on Long Woods roa ? I |Oaine to an old mill pond with a path along its bank, my skittish animal took fright and plunged into the [middle of the sloughy pond. I turned a somersault -J «.c xiuaa or me brute, and, nearly choked with mud and shme, swam for shore, the animal, spouting mud and ! water, pawing after me. I saw a log hut on the hill near 38 by, and an old woman standing at the door. She kindly lent me a mop pail and broom. After rolling myself | awhile in the brook at the head of the pond, I with a pail and broom cleaned the mud from the beast, and went on to my appointment in a ricketV school-house. After preaching I went to a house and was steaming around the fire till after midnight. For my escape this time I feJt very thankful to God. When on the Huron Mission, I started from Nissouri i to* go five or six miles through a dense forest to my ap- pomtments the next day at St. Mary's. The sun was an W high when I eat^red the woods in the evening. Kie falling leaves had filled the path, and I was soon l^t. i JNight came on and one or two showers of rain. My cap was torn from my head again and again by the brush- wood, and my face disfigared with scratches. I wandered i mitil ten o clock at night, when I heard pigs squeal in tile distance. I followed the sound, and came into a slashing among tree-teps and logs. Clambering on I saw a hght between the logs of a shanty, and a man inside reading the Bible. I tied my horse to a tree and Btayed till morning. The man piloted me on the way, ^d I amyed at my preaching place in good time Sab- i bath morning, thankful to God for protection and deUver- ance. I had great liberty preaching that day. At another time on my way down a branch of the I Kiver Thames, I came to a huge tree fence lately made «p to the bank of the stream. I had a choice of three thmgs— togo three miles around a swamn. swim th«l «ream or cUmb the fence. I cUmbed the fence, and my j aithful horse followed me over with safety. I soon met a man, who looked wild, and said : " Where did you oomefrom?" I said I came over the tree fence. He looked at me and the horse, and finally said : " I won- der your horse did not get hung in that fence, and if he had you would have had to make a bee to get him out, with few hands to help you !" In relating the circumstance, some one said. Dr. Stewart had a horse which would climb a tree. They should have said tree-fence, which is a true statement. Many other escapes and turmoils might be named. When I think of the first Methodist preachers who volunteered and came to Canada from 1791 to the war of 1812, what toil and hardships they endured, while planting the standard of the cross in the wilds of Canada. I have heard several of them preach after their return to the United States, viz., Wm. Anson, Wm. Losee, Samuel House, N. Bangs, G. W. Densmore, and Bishop George, also the eccentric Lorenzo Dow. Every one of these men was mighty through God in pulling ^down the strongholds of Satan I The most, if not all of them, have gone from toil to their reward in glory ! It may in truth be said of many Methodist preachers in Canada at the present time, « Other men have labored, and you have entered into their labors," and have been successful m the salvation of thousands. To God be all the glory I Amen. ^ I shaU narrate instances of wonderful excitement, and extraordinary manifestations of the power and grace of ^ ~ - - "'••j.-.-ii ui Biuiiwi's. vvnen a DOy bweive years of age, in my native town, a revival of religion commenced among the Methodists. I attended one Sabbath. The ;f!i I '40 preaching was in a grove, for no church would hold thai people, who came from all parts. I was listening while Ward, the preacher, whose pulpit w- a stump, cried aloud to the people to « Repent and be converted." In- stantly I saw a man's hat % off his head, and then an- other, and another. A lady's bonnet jerked off her head which fell on her shoulders, hanging hy its strings around her neck. Here an arm jerked violently, there a man's head shaken, others thrown down, some crying for mercy A strange tremor ran over me, and I wished myself a I Christian. This excitement continued several months The wicked were shaken, with backsliders, and those under conviction, yet those who had communion with i 'God were not shaken. It is written in Joel 2 : 1., « Lot j all the inhabitants of the land tremble." During this revival a large number was added to the Church A few years after, Captain B , a resident of the I village, and who had been for years a professed Deist was called out of bed at midnight, by some of his neigh! bors, to hear singing in the air over-head. Several times, before a revival, such music had been heard. The Oaptain listened, walked in different directions, and waa convinced that this singing was unearthly. Thousands of voices, in sweet melody and harmony, were adoring the 'liord of Hosts ! A glorious revival of religion was the result, and among those brought from the power of Satan unto God was Captain B ^ who afterwards became an eflicient class-leader in the M. E. Chumh o«^ «„-.ii„ died m the triumphs of faith. I knew him well. Another remarkable conversion took place. Soon after 41 received license to exhort, a revival of relTgion broke •ut at a village near KayderosseroH Creek, Saratoga bounty. I was engaged in the work. A large number mostly young people, embraced religion. An old resident the vicinity, Squire 8 , a man of gre... influence id respectability, had for years spoken disparagingly of Christianity, especially of Christian experience, calling it . delusion, etc. How were the praying army startled bne evenmg by the appearance of the Squire in our midst, ^e first thought was, ' 'He has come to tantalize us." Our ears were soon dispelled. Said he, "I was yesterday ralkmg m the meadow and came to a block of woods in ^s centre, when suddenly a voice came down among the ees, calling me by name and saying * Pray, pray, there mercy in heaven 'ar you !' I walked around the <^ood, and saw no one, but still the voice came, "Pray, ^ray, there is mercy in heaven for you !" I knelt at the k)ot of a tree and said, " If there is a Saviour for guUty aen, let Him now be revealed to me." That moment Fesus " Was set forth before my eyes, A precious, bleeding sacrifice." I gave myself up to God, pleading the merits of th« ledeemer, when He pardoned all my sins, in answer to grayer. I was now a happy man. I have told my fami- Y, and some of my neighbors, of the great change God ^as wrought in my heart, and now I have come to tell fou." Shouting and crying for joy amor.ff vgv-«« eoa. ^erts followed this narration ; the stout-heLtedlj^i^r. -Jists and Deists were brought to seek "redemption in d M J , II lift ■III mt^ii mi Ime [in iev( ( 42 in the blood of Christ." This shows that every man has influence in the community. The adorable Redeemer has said, " He that gathereth not with Me, scatteretli abroad." When I was eighteen years old, I obtained leave to visit a sister, near Saratoga Springs. My object was to attend a camp-meeting in Milton. When I arrived on the ground, the tents were five and six deep, one back of another, in rows, with a large plot of ground in the centre. A great number of preachers, and more than one thousand i of the Sacramental Host engaged in the worship of God. Among the early conversions was that of S. C -, who i came to mock, but remained to pray. This young law. yer afterwards entered the ministry. I saw him at the Round Lake Camp-meeting in 1869. He was still preaching the Gospel. Among the preachers who fell on the stand, and on the ground, for they were many, the Rev. S. M fell near the gateway on the ground. He had been a good pastor for several years, yet would cry "Order!" if a brother or sister shouted in his presence.— While he lay helpless on the ground, his mortified wifeBperf cried with vexation of spirit. When he came to, helme, shouted the high praises of God with all his might After this baptism of fire, mdre than three hundred souls, during the next year, were converted to God, through his instrumentality. It was a common occurrence in those days for preachers to be overwhelmed by God's stupen- dous grace ! Hev. B. Griffin, stationed in the city of Troy when I joined the Methodists, while he was a young preacher, fell on the stand at camp^meeting, and remained helpless for thirteen hours. Near the close of the camp- [soul over |appei no oj [hand n 'he [what chij hat every man has | dorable Redeemer j ith Me, Boattereth obtained leave toj My object was to! leu I arrived onj deep, one back of j >und in the centre, bhan one thousand { e worship of God. ofS. C , who This young law. ] saw hioi at thej '. He was still ichers who fell on j ly were many, the I the ground. He I 48 meeting, th« greatest manifestation of the power of God the salvation of sinners took place, on Sabbath [evening. A large prayer-ring on the giound became too small to mtain those who were seeking salvation, hence a large lumber were removed to a large canvas tent, erected for )rayer.meetings. After a season of prayer, Rev. J. B •ose in the tent, and exhorted a few minutes, and cried God to send His power among the people. Tn answer prayer, the Holy Ghost came down. The majority of ihose in the tent fell to the ground, and those in the doorways as lookers-on tried >ut were arrested by the Spirit of fell inside and outside th« tent. J«- lated that more than two hundred were si i pentecoBtal shower, I observed three classes were slain, ' ., the scoffing sinnerK , when they came to, oriea Ifor mercy ; second, tLu^se seeking salvation, when they to run, God, and was esti- under this irs, yet would cry ^came to, rejoiced in a sin-pardoning God ; third, p ofes- 1^" of religion, wheu they came to were filled with a [perfect love. I saw a sinner lying on the ground before he came to, heBme, and prayea, " Lord Jesus, let Thy blood cleanse that in his presence, lis mortified wife b all his might, "ee hundred souls, Isoul from sin." lover his breast. In an instant I saw bloo< flowing all I looked around, when *»verything God, through hisH^PPeared natural. I was now convinced that there was currence in thoseH^io optical illmslon here, I then said to one on my right )y God's stupen-B^and, " Oli, see that bloodJ" The person answered, •« I id in the city ofH»^ ^o blood." The next moment the blood vanished, ehe was a vounffB^^f mourner oame ta ahoutini?- "Glnrv t^ nrui «,» ng, and remained B^i^^^ I»e has done for my soul !" The next minute I saw lose of the campB* child in tiit arms of an old lady. The child was sing- :< iu|. ^4 ing and praising God ! It had eyes of fire, and a stream of fire, like lightning, encircled its head 1 The old lady with others, was listening to the child's song, while their own countenances shone with joy. I again looked at different objects, which appeared all right as before, and again saw this little child, as wrapped in the drapery of Heaven ! The latter part of the night, whether I was in the body or out, of the body I cannot tell, God knoweth. I arose the next morning filled with ecstacy. Feariy one hundred joined the Church at the close of the meeting, on Monday morning. In going to my sister's, from the camp- ground, I passed through a wood, and in it prayed that the Lord would instruct me in the wonders which I saw the night before. A voice came down among the trees and said, " The blood which you saw is a proof that the blood of Jesus Christ stUl cleanseth from all sin. The child which you saw is a %ure of what you must ever be in innocence, in order to be happy. I arose, with a sacred awe resting upon me, and went on my way rejoicing. When I returned to the city of Troy, I related all to my classJeader. After a pause, he said, " Should you relate these wonders to many professors of religion, they would not believe you." I now feel that I cannot go to my grave without leaving that scene upon record. Several times, when on a visit to my relatives, east of the Hudson River, I passed through the city of Schenec- _ tady. Frederick Clute, the first Methodist in the oitv, I showed me the grave of the Rev. Mr. V—-, a minister "" of the Dutch Reformed Church. Said Father Olute, 49 "Captain Webb, while barraok-master at Albany^ preached the Gospel with great power. The wife of one of my neighbors, while visiting friends at Albany, was awakened under Webb's preaching, and came home cry- ing, * What must I do to be saved.' Her husband became alarmed, and begged her to stop crying, and be pacified with her reUgious profession. This failed to pacify her. and she cried, « Lord, save or I perish ! Ood be merci- ful to me, a sinner 1" The alarmed husband sent for the Dominie, Rev. Mr. V . He came, and asked the woman, « Have you ever been a thief, a robber, or a murderer 1" « No," said tae woman, « but I am a sin- I ner, and must be born again." « Who put these notions into your head ?" asked Mr. V_, for the woman and her husband were both members of his Church. " Mr. Webb, the minister at Albany," said the woman. Mr.* V stood up by his chair and commenced praying, and said, "0, Lord God, destroy all the false prophets out of the world 1" meaning Webb as one of them. The I next moment, Mr. V fell on the floor in a fit, and could not speak for a number of years afterwards, so as to be un- derstood. His speech finally came n gain, when he went into his church, and said to the people, " I'm afraid that I have been the means of the loss oi many by not urging upon them the necessity of the new birth 1" The woman, m the meantime, found redemption in the blood of the Lamb, and God imparted spiritual life to many othere through her and her husband's instrumentalitv. who waa also " born again." One of the Ghost, which most remarkable baptisms of the Holf descended upon the preachers, took place ai 4^ a camp-meeting held in the township of ChamjMon, 1827. Bishop George was present. I saw him in a prayer-ring, one day, praying for a number of young men under con- viction; they were so earnestly engaged in prayer as to be unconscious of his presence. In childlike simplicity, the Bishop prayed for their immediate conversion, and while he laid his hands upon their heads, one after another, in raijid succession, arose from the earth, shouting « Praise, praise to God for redeeming grace." At the close of the meeting the Bishop gave the Sacra- ment to the preachers. More than thirty were present, traveling and local. Said the Bishop to the preachers " We meet here on earth, and part, but we'll go and live with Jesus by and by." Twenty-five of the thirty preach- ers, overwhelmed by the power of God, immediately fell to the earth. They were removed to the preacher's tent, in order to make room for other communicants. When they came to, one after another was filled with joy un- Bpeakable and full of glory. After this baptism, these preachers were eminently successful in winning souls to Christ. At a camp-meeting the same year, in Vienna, Oneida County, K Y., I was present at a prayer-meeting when a gentleman and lady were converted, who had come to the meeting to see and be seen. The awakened lady asked women to pray for her, and while she was seeking salvation, her husband discovered her in the prayer-ring. He at once forced his way among the praying army, «*ught his wire in his arms, and carried her out of the ring, swearing and cursing the Methodists. A few old women, who had faith in God, prayed that He would smite the I« 4f inner with conviction. The next moment the man fell the ground, crying for mercy. His wife soon found lace with (Jod, and joined with others in prayer for her usband. The man, after giving up all to God, found re- lemption in the blood of Christ. Another scene occurred at a camp-meeting near Still- ater, Hudson River. A rich lady, who had no children, dopted a niece, and invited her to accompany her in her arriage to the camp-meeting, out of mere curiosity, to ake a display in showing her finery, and drawing tbe at- ;ention of others from the worship of the Most High, for ihe des and hated the Methodists. The young lady's ttentiw^ vas drawn to the preaching. The Word was quick and powerful," and soon she discovered her lost Icondition out of Christ. She immediately entered a Iprayer-meeting, and prayed for pardon. Her aunt, who had been walking around the ground in careless indiffer- ence, missed her niece, and soon found her praying for [herself, and others praying for her. She rushed into the [praying circle in a rage, caught the young lady by the arm, and shouted, "Come away from among those [wretches," meaning the people of God. The young lady -id, « O ! aunt, I must be * born again.' O ! let me seek |the salvation of my soul." This only increased the rage of jher aunt, who pinched and pulled her away with all. her might. The people prayed that "od would stop the old hardened sinner in her wild career. The next moment the spirit of God arrested her, when she fell as one shot m battle. In about two hours she came to, crying to God to have mercy on her guilty soul I The praying host sur- rounded her, and in a short time her sins were pardoned. I^Ti-iTrT-'-Miiiiiii 'i^i-f 48 in answer to prayer. In the meantime, her niece was "justified by faith, having peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." They both joined the Church, ' afterwards were faithful soldiers of the Cross. Near Albany, N. Y., lived an old German, who had been a professor of religion for many years. When the Methodists came into the vicinity, " their names were cast ou^ as evil." Some even said they bewitched the people. Catharine, the Dutchman's wife, went to hear them, when she became converted. She immediately urged her hus- band to go with her to meeting, saying, « I know for mine self dey are the people of God, dey no bewich anybody." " Veil, den," said Hans, " I viU go mit you dis vonce, Katrine, but I'll dake de Psalm Pook und de Pible to 'spute mid de breacher. Yen I and Katrine got to de meeting, von Sam Fowler vas going to breach. I listen, und tink he tauk goot tauk. I soon drop the Psalm Pook und de Pible ; the breacher stomp mit his foot, an someting come troo de house like lightnin'. I never did feel so in all mine life pefore ! I veil down und gride, * O ! Lort Got, hafe mercy on a vicked Dutchman.' Bimeby, Got, for Christ's sake, bardon all mine sins, in answer to brayer, and I go home happy mid Katrine. So now den, if dis is de vay de Metodists bevich de peoples, I vish dey , bevich eferypody," This experience was related in love-feast, amid the re. joicings of the people of God. When we reflect upon these extraordinary manifestations of the spirit and power of God. we come to ^h.e con'>l"«'«'^« *.k~t xi._ ■»«■_ ^ t^. . q)erates upon depraved human beings in accordance with i the capacity and temperament of the receiver. The pas- accordance with I eiver. The pas- Id Bions are excited, and love is one of thefitrongest passions yt the soul. I'll here give an illustration. A father left lis family of four children, and crossed the ocean to visit lis friends. His children, not hearing of him for ten rears, had come to the conclusion that he had perished, "^at was their surprise one day, when the father sud- ienly made his appearance in their midst. One cries, ' Father has cornel" and rushes to embrace him, another paughs and cries alternately, another claps his hands, ^nd leaps for joy. The fourth, overcome with gladness,' ^alls down helpless. They were all glad to see their father, but we cannot tell which was the most glad. St. Paul ays, (1. Cor., xii., 4, 6, 7,) " Now there are diversities iof gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are diversities jof operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in IfJl. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal." Henco its operation in the Uwakening and conversion of sinners is the same in iden- [tity, yet varied according to the object upon which it ioperates. While a large machine shop is in operation, or a large edifice in course of erection, a number of men are Employed, and a good deal of din and noise is made, [which IS confusion to a looker-on ; yet there is no confusion Iwith the engineer or foreman, neither is there any con- Ifusion with God when the awakening, oonverling and sane jtifying power of the Holy Ghost is poured out upon the people in glorious revivals of religion. How many scof- jfers, unbelievers and wicked professors of religion. whUe Jiaie spectators in time of revival, cry out, " God is not the author of confusion, but of peace," when the above paa- Isage has no allusion to religious worship, but to divisions jamong the people, which the apostle Paul warns Chris- W4ip»n«M«i|{| It 50 tiana to avoid, oIitical intermeddling '.Jid re. , living Government money. Bev. James Richardso. , iftei^ ;»-ds Bishop of the M. E Church in Canada, left Js I ontinued to labor as a local preacher among the ve^^ieyans untU 1843 when seeing no change for the better, I wi.idrew and went back to the old hive, where God converted me, viz the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, and in their struggle for the right was induced at a good deal of per- sonal sacrifice to again enter the traveling Connexion, and was stationed at Brockville in 1843, Oxford and Blenheim in 1844, London in 1845, Huron Mission in 1846, Thames in 1847, and Malahide in 1848-49; in 1850, in Dorchester, sick ; agent for book-room in 1852 Barton 1858, Grand River 1861, making eleven years ap- pomted by the Conference as a supemumerarv ; 1851, IBS?, 1856, 1860, make fifteen years' service according to my ability. * Since those years I have sustained a superannuated relation, and year aft r year I have tried to preach the Gospel, and now near the close of the year 1879, I can say with the Psalmist : '« My times are in Thy hand." Februa^ 19th, 1881, my wife, with whom I had lived -^r.y-5i^ years, left me to join those who have gone before, aged eighty-two years. In a feeble state of health I sold my residence to her granddaughter and her husband, Thomas 58 Lawrason. Now left alone in the world I concluded it would benefit my healtbr to visit my relatives east and west. I have stood by the graves of my father and mother, visited early scenes of childhood. Where are my early associates ? Nearly all in their graves. The most of them perished through the demon alcohol. While in the west, at Ovid, Michigan, a glorious outpouring of the «piri|t of God was manifest in the salvation of many. In the east also, Jesus was bringing lost sinners to Ood. My health has much improved, for which I thank God and take courage. During my visit I have preached the Gospel again and again, with much comfort, at least to my own soul. Although I have been preaching fifty-five years my call has not run out yet. O I let me preach Him to all, and cry in death : " Behold ! Behold the i^mb !" •' This world is all a weaiy way, A desert land where pilgrims roam. Where lovely exiles sadly stray And sigh for home. Yet there's a heaven of joy and light, A peaceful world of holy rest, O ! let me wing my joyful flight To Jesus' breast !" THE 1 I concluded it latives east and my father and Where are my ». The most of 3hol. While in itpouring of the nof many. In sinners toQod. b I thank Qod ve preached the ort, at least to aching fifty-five let me preach i ! Behold the CANADIAN HERBAL. BOTAHIC FAMILY PHYSICIAU, — COMPRISING A VARIETY OF^— TIE INDIAN REMEDIES — AND — MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THIS COUNTRY. -AND- ADAPTED TO VAWOUS FOEMS OF DISEASE. —BY- REV. SCHUYLER STEWART, B. D. —WITH— An Appendix, Containing, Etc. Let none despair, for herbal skill retains ihe bahn from plants which tleck far tlistant plains. *rom vales ani groves nch healing roots he gfeans, And rosy health springs from such magazines : He culls each horb which has the power to cure, Dispensing blessings to the Fkh and Poor All men ought to be acquainted with the Medical Art." H1PP0CIUTE.S. INTRODUCTION. Every man who has «' a generous concern for those who may come after him," would wish to leave on the tablet of time a me- mento for the benefit of others, when he has " gone the way of all the earth." And such is the desire of the Author of this work. Hence ip view of the ills under which mankind labor, by various forme of disease both natural and incidental, it Ijecomes exery friend of man to. mitigate at least if he cannot remove these suf- ferings. I have from childhood found delight in contemplating the character of God, especially his work of creation— particu- larly that part of it which embraces the vegetable productions of the earth. The Infinite wisdom displayed in the beautiful colore, form, symmetry, variety, &c., by the "Great Architect of the Universe," has invariably produced in my mind wonder and ad- miration. In visiting different parts of the Province, during the last twenty years, I have found in every place medicinal plants adapted to the diseases in the vicinity where the people reside. The dog when sick will eat grass, the cat catnip, the toad plan- tain. And shall not men have as much knowledge as a bi-ute '! It is generally ac^itted that there are "Medicines growing in the fields and woods of our own country sufficient to cure every dis- ease, if we only knew them." The object is gained then— for there are many white men and Indians who kne Hundreds of them, and have tested their virtues in removing uie worst dis- eases which afflict the human family ; yet how apt some men are to condemn anything in medicine, and are ready to say to the Botanic i'hysician in language of contempt, " From curing diseases with roots and herbs. We'll surely call you back, And if we can't persuade you, We'll surely call you " Quact." Yet, notwithstanding. Vegetable Remedies are used with success by hundreds of the greatest respectability in this Province. OF THE REV. JOHN 3 EXTRACT FROM THE WRITINGS WESLEY. "The healing art was first brought into use in a very natural and simple manner. In the earliest age of the world, mankind by various experiments or accidents, discovered that certain plants roots and Imrks possessed medicinal properties ; these were found sufficient to remove their diseases-while the application of these remedies was plain and easy. * * ♦ * * a j there h^ not been wanting, from time to time, some lovers "of mankmd who have endeavored ( contmry to their own interests ) to reduce physic to its ancient standard ; who have endeavored to explode out of it all hyi>othe8is and fine spun theories, and to make it a plain, intelligible thing, as it was in the Wmnmg, havmg no more mystery in it than this, "Such a medicme it moves such a pain." These have demonstmbly shown that neither the knowledge of Astrology, Astronomy, Natural PhUosophy, or even Anatomy itself, is absolutely necessary to the quick and effectual cure of most diseases incident to the human family ; nor yet any chemical or exotic ; but simple plants or roots duly ap- plied, so that every man of common sense (in ordinary cases) may pre8cnl>e for himself or his neighbor, and may be secure from do- ing harm, even where he can do no good." Tlie above testimony is from one of the greatest divines in Eu. rope m the past century, who, like " Luke the Physician," while preachmg the Gospel, was often found relieving the sick with sim- pie remedies. I intend in the following pages to avoid ambiguous v/ords or technical phrases In describing Botanic Remedies, or prescribing for the sick, choosing the plainest language that plain men may understand me-for I have neither time nor space in this work to do otherwise. The Medical profession have often long hard names, such as HydragyrJ, chloridum mite, sub muri^ hydmgyn mitis, calonielas sublimatum ; all these big words mean nothing but the simple word calomeL The herb peppenniut is called " ITIfttlfhA^ rki>^*.n4>A^ U^»l_ it I would not wish to speak diminutively of the profession, »)ut would undeceive such as ai-e iniwie to believe that skiU lies in being able to use the Latin terms in which the various medicines \ I will now make the doctors prescribe are known in tltoir books. a few remarks upon the MODERN PRACTICE. The modem Practice may be classed under the following heade : — 1st. Mineral and Depletive Class.— These constitute the " Faculty," who have chartered Medical Colleges; are deemed the most learned, and in some respects the most populai-. 2nd. The Thompsonian.— These at present are divided into two classes, pure "Thompsonian" and "Independent." The Indet)endents are not confined to the Thompsonian system only, but make all the discoveries they can, and practice accordingly. 3rd. The Homceopathic Physicians say that whatever will create disease will cure it ; hence if salt produces fever, salt will cure it. One millionth part of a grain is a dose. Diet and reg- imen are only beneficial with this class. 4th. The Water-Cure System.— This system is becoming very popular at the present day in America. Ix, is contended by this class that the element water is amply sufficient, applied internally and externally in all diseases, and is the best remedy in the world. 5th. Apothecaries.— A useful class, who compound medicines as benefactors of mankind. 6th.— The Reformed Botanic Physician advocates scientific medical reform, and combines everything useful from any system ■where vegetable medicines are used to heal the sick. Theii" practice is tested at the bedside by experience, in relieving the afflictions of all who can be l)enefitted by the application of medi- cine, and is in strict accordance with Physiological principles. Thus God has in His infinite goodness suffered a "system to be established which heals disease in conformity with the intentions of nature, and re-establishes health without destroying the source of life !" Hence, in view c' the many opportunities which we en- joy, in this age of improvement, Icit us not abuse ourselves ; but act in harmony with the laws of life, that we may finally enjoy the life to come, in a region where the inhabitaiits shall never say " I am sick," but where the undivided rest which remains for the people of Guu shall be our portion for ever ! S. S. Fakrmo, C. H ., Jamiary, 1S51. ". I will now make ler the following ipound medicines vocates scientific A CHAPTER ON DIETETICS jWITH SOME GENERAL RULES FOR PRESERVING HEALTH AND LONGEVITY. B or designed by the Creator tn«!,KoT;' *^'^* '"^'^ *« herbiverous, «U8 kinds of frait I W also an ?!• '^ ^'^g^t^Wes and the vari! nieval Diet of Man " tL t ff i "^^^'"^^ ^•'^^' ^"^^ the " Pri- principles. D^ CombI in h tV^r^^^ffc^^^^^^^ *he above others" are.of a «>n?Sry'oink>n IZ^ r I^i«*««c«." and many from his having the^^'Lt^o'■ dog^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ 1? ^^l^'^^^' {■science and experience will nrnv« ihof ^^ °^ opmion that to subsist pro4cuSy uX^^^^ T ""^i^"^"^ ^^««^«^«d Wd vegetLles. and that Tn ^huL«l'- ^"^h T*^ ^*"°"« f^-»i*« too much, and too Unv Snd« «< f . "^"^f ^^ ^*^« ^ ^^st, pie and her wante a^ fL '" 1 fi^e S ' ^' ^"^^*"'' '' '"'''• Ithey come into contact wiih S^h other Tw th?«* T^^ ^^'^ ■oi too many kinds nf f«,^.i „* x" "•'". ^' «o "y the amalgamation tionoftheLnmch Dr^\^^^^^^^^^ injures the digestive ao lon digestion that if we ^at^Xd *nf '?°.r "^ ^'' experiments ^itional burden is imDoJ?n,rV^'' ** *^^ same time, an ad- its centre like an KSts^'tL aLtl^^^ ^"t^ '' ^"^ ^^^*ract in pn one, and gastrin TuicfSin^nnnn^^"*' f'?^« "P«" *^« ^^ids hf the stomach, at the 2i^ I?^ ^ a" *^^ «^^^^^« »» the other part Esed at one mekl by theT^nd.vi^^'f 7i"'" *he different articles "m a dish, ^ gormandizers of this worid mixed together tsmoked, baked, raw or roasted,") &r H^nle'^hTaYulT^^ '"^^"f ^^^ ^^'^^^ ^-thing and fetiiig too many w/of foS a ^T'"'''^ IV *^« «*°'"a«h by Mmost or quite indlestiblel^^^ ''"^A "^^^^ ^^^"^ ^^ t^em ari h^e-^oorf System Twm eat wh^^^^ '^^l'^^^ ^^* ^P'^^^ the would say in reply nrontV J P^«^e» I can affor.^ it, &c." Till hllniYon nt^^U r"i'-"C3 auver eat, Dp«f«f w^" °" P^^^"' ^°* spiced meat, Desist before you get your fill ;: Eat to dilute but not to sweir ^" nictations you will feel. Then 6 BOTANIC FAMILY PHVSICJA%\ Keep consticady to a plain diet. "Tho>e Ijv.j lon^iOijl," *viys Dr. Baynard, 'who avoid variety of meat a sxui drinks which en- tice to f.'luttony," hence, Accustom early in y<>ur youth. To lay embargo on yor.r moutij ; Aiid let no vr^rioty mvite To r;;ll or ^int the appetite, Eat check it ul vs'ays, and give o'er. With a desire {<.r ea'. 'ig m .•i'?, For where one vlios V«y m.;initi<>n A thousand perish by rt?plet;ion. THfvt to sup sparingly is most healthful, may hi' inferred by the j i ;-r.!'vif ".■ fi&t number of persons, then )-<<;t ^?jpi>er little be and light, s^tit iKme makes always the best iiight : It gi\ea sweet sleep without a drea tn, Leaves morning's mouth sweet, ic/ ist and clean. It is the opinion of many eminent men that '• fasting, rest and drinking water will cure many diseases." ' RULES FOR PRESERVING HEALTH. 1st. The medical power of nature sustains the vitality of the! system in carrying of the waste particles of matter, hence all! kinds of intemperance in eating, drinking, labor. &c., exhaust tliej body, producing disease and premature death. Let old and young j live temperately. 2nd. Dr. Thompson says, "An ounce of preventative is worth! a pound of cure." Let old and young avoid standing or sitting inl a cun-ent of cold air, or drinking cold water, when in a state ofl perspiration, without bathing the wrists and temples at the saniej time. 3rd. Avoid wet feet, by having boots and shoes suitable to the| season, (young ladies especially.) A multitude have lost theii lives by carelessness. An eminent physician has said, " keep yotu head cool and your feet warm." 4th. All intoxicating drinks are a slow poison, because they an indigestible. I recommend tli n\ to dlsaohe gums, resins, or the preparation of liniment and rheum* i- drops for bathing] Many Indian remedies have been publi • ; which contained *_i u« 1 j.i._ e-.~^ -t J.I.- ii..j - » _.• _ .„ i xmcmiwx-t uil tiic ijrvw Ui '^^llx^ plwi^Ull^Myi - -^jM*'' XIa^ g^^9 Fui**, 'CV What l'\ Indians know about ■•2.of>\.\, or "firewater," they ca imtil taught by wicked -v 'len? .Then avoid cohol diiu viistilled essence as much ■. :»ossible in medicine. be inferred by the BOTANIC FAMILY FHYSICIA:^. ^," a practice which ir.St^'^^.u.u'Tj'^J'"'-: "O-mn. among r •" "ft """ j'^wwi oi Doth sexes nn]k«? "«'«- "'dul^^^ i" a« uafavo^ble ■ ".-Per«„, „, intemperate habit, are te eaaily excited by 8 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, i medicinal stimulants than others more temperate, also where th^ system has been flooded by nostrums, it is more difficult to re- move them than to cure the disease. Salta and minerah. — Those who wish to preserve their health should avoid the use of minerals taken internally ; they never were designed by the Author of nature for medicine ; they in- jure the coats of the stomach and intestines, and often, instead of removing, create disease. Mercury, which is so universally in use, is the worst of all. Vegetables should be used in preference. Salts — many suppose it necessary frequently to take salts, to pre- serve their health. This custom is wrong. A vicid, thin, cold state of the blood follows the use of them. The motto on the tombstone is in place, " I was well ; took physic and died." Bleeding. — It is quite fashionable to bleed, to prevent disease or to preserve health. This is a pernicious custom : no person has a drop of blood to spare. This practice, which brings on many diseases, may afford present relief, but its consequences are injurious, producing dropsy, debility, and nervous diseases. Tear down the best house, and who can build it with the same materials, and make as good a house of it. The skin, bowels, kidneys, stomach, and lungs are agents through which the medi- cal power of nature acts in carrying off disease or waste particles of matter, or morbid humors of the system ; and to paralyze their energies is to produce death in the midst of life. Rather assist natujfe in her efforts to expel disease from the system. Vegetable medicine contains nutrition (while minerals and salts do not) a.id is designed by the Creator to cure every form of disease to which mankind are subject. When perspiration is obstructed give dia- phoretics, when the stomach does not pei-form its office give emetics, when the kidneys are obstructed givo diuretics, when the bowels are inactive give laxatives. The vegetable kingdom has a remedy at hand at all times. A FEW DIRECTIONS FOR GATHERING AND PREPARING MEDICINES. To measure medicine instead of weighing. — A drachm of any substance that is near the weight of water will fill a common tea- spoon level full, four tea-spoonfuls make a table-spoonful, or one- half of an ounce, two table-spoonfuls an ounce, and so on. On the same principle, one-third of a tea. spoonful will be one scruple, or twenty grains in weight. To make a solution of herbs, break, cut, or bruise them, then put them in a tea-pot, pitcher, bowl or tea-cup, and pour on boil mg water, and when the tea is cool enough it is fit for use. For syrups, "boii the articles and strain ofif the tea, adding sugar, etc. Roots should be dried and powdered, and then hot water poured BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 9 D PREPARING hot water poured oi-ed in tlie fall when the h fJ^f i ^^ «^o»W be gath- ha« clone ^rowi^ hIISIZS^T' \t^^ 7°*' ^^^' ^^^ ton or when tTiey hav^ attained utTr .1^ ^^^t'^'^ ^^«» ^ Wossom" should 1^ lumg up to d^ to avj "i^iT,**" ' fnd when gathered throw them iifa heap Take a^mnr"**^ ""^^ T^^^^- ^^ "ot cine for family amis you do to r^„t ^"*' ^u^''^ * ""^^ '««di- pill8, boil the ingredi^itsr own f ^^^ '"^^^^ ^^y- !» making is thick as tar, ffi'tet t bi™ f^f ; «*''«?« oft' and boil dow? with flour, ginger, &c. **""») a»d to roll into pills, thicken ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY Mly\ar;:^ritl^^^^^ of a few remark, branch of study in s^o^ls^d a^eSs f f \u ^^* ^* ^°""« * Numerous works may be easily obSr^Wl if 'hr^'"* ^'^^• " P'opei- study of mankind is man," parts. ' ''"^' '"'''^' lympha, &c., are the fluid The bones are the frame work nf t»,» u give form and strength to theZdy Ld leenT? '^'*""'; • ^^^^^ jler Its own weight. Thev nnmS'^SJL o ^ » ^""O'" sinking un- , bones, found abSut the S s o? Hwk' u™*", ^^^^ unimportant »J number, are called LZodLnegS ^^ «'^* ^' «^«»^* of anmml earth and gluten • and nof .. i *^"^* ^'"^ composed defend its viscera. The bonP« 1 only support the bodyVbut occupy Hence somltetTlowLftK *°-.^ «i*^*«o„^they hohd throughout, others large ^Zdfl!? 7*^ "Wirow, otheii cave. So also the juinK;,^ ^i ?•*' P^^'^' convex or con- hmvel,and some partake both of f hf h^ "^^ ^T^' ""^^^^ ^re To the bones are atSedin^scles Twl^^T^ swivel motion. fleshy part of the human body ThJh! ^'*^™ constitutes the I ong and round, some plain 2d oTS ^''^ ''''"''"« ^^""8 J some havestrui^ht fibres. sCefe^ are dou^ll. "*""!? '^^^' ^^ «ome |they are cfesigned to serve a^lflt^^b !^l«°"»«£y«» treble ,- j=cr5ca Uiio tiie different bonpa ^i ♦i^f u"!j"^ "wwoa. mey are in- [contract or distend/^ aVeth«n!J ^y.' ^"^ «* the muscles JThey number betwU^ four anrfivTrV^*^" ^"'^ t>ody. Iwhich every time we breathe «! ^""t^d. one hundred Jf tase," is a ^ blessi,!^ of eTety ,„^i'7 T^' ".Breathing with s «^ eiy moment. A man m asthma knowa 10 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSIOIAN, 'Fs <' how tow..'./. >'. .r.3re are two great systems of blood-vessels, called veuia '••ju ^irterios. The veins carry the hlood t<> the heart, ai.J the ai-terios convey it from the heart, to supply the vario' i parts of tlie system. The blood in the veins is black aitti unfit tor use in nourishing the Ixxly, until it enters the vessels of the limgs, and comes in contact with the air which we inhah^ by respiration, the oxygen portion of which i» converted into arterial blood, wnen it becomew -d a.iu iu Uien conveyed by the arteries to support and nourish tlio, body. Hence there is a circle described In its current ; the heart being the groat mn^hine by which the circulation is kept up. The heart is a hollow inuacular organ. It is. double, having two auricles and two ventricles. The auricles receive the blood from the veins, and the ventricles send out the blood to the arteries. When the heart contracts, the blood is propelled from the right ventricle into the lungs, through the pul- monary arteries, which like all the other arteries, are furnisned with valves that play easily forward, but iulmit not the blood to return toward the heart. The blood, after circulating througli thi lungs, antl having there been revivified by coming in contact with the air, and imbibin," a portion of its oxygon, ret urns into the lelti auricle of the heart, 1 \' the pulmonary veins. '\t the same instant the left ventricle drives the blood into th-' aorta, a large artery which sends off branches to supply the head aiul arms. Au ther large branch of the ucrta descends ."long inside of the backbone, and detaches nuni rous ramifications to nou i.'i the bowels aiid inferior extremities. After serving the most remote extremities of the body, the arteries ire converted inio veins, which ir. their retur». to the heart gi.ulually unite into larger branches, until th'^ whole terminates into ont great trunk, called the vena cava, which diacl'arges itb-'lf into the right auricle of the heart, arr? completes th< circulati'ii. Each ventricle contains about ai mce, r two t e-spoon ds of blood. The heart con- tracts 400u times every hour, and there passes through it 26< ^ ounda of blood every hour. If the mans of blood in a human body be reckoned at v. average of *?"> pounds, •*+ will follow that the whole mas» of blood passes thro. ,:h the hea.t, veius and arteries, 14 times in an hour.or aboiit once e-^ovy four m'nvtes. Th healthy action of the lungs depends or Le action of health'- air > hich wi inhale, giviufir character to ..he liie-blood of the human system. The liver and stem;! . axe rgana of immediate import nee to health and life. If ti y • not healthy igestion will be re- tarded, th« system n ec* ng its nourishment. They Loth act in concert, as appears by the process of digest n. Dr. Beaumont's ^«'.> y>n iX,^ ^t.^,^^^.1. „e at. %4'-_t.:_ i „ perforated stomach by the accidental discharge of a musket gave hhn an opportunity to determine with accuracy the length of time employed by the gastric juice in converting into chyme the BOTANIC FAMILY Phv.SIOIAN. lies behind the S^ch secieX a Xi'l "V^"'-?.^^'"*^'^' ^'^^^^^ duct forms a iunctioT with 511 it 5 'i ^? * ™'*''y *=o^«''- It« second 8to^rordu^r*S,*it«*" ^."^*' trom the liver in the chyle conned from th« 1 T' .T*"'« *^^'^ J"^^« ^^^^ *»>« to keep up a h^Sv Ih. f ; *^«y ^«t .^ Batumi physio. offthecrucfeSortSnlnf^ *"/ *^® mtestines, which ie. Ileuce wnen electricity is applied to the body it acts as a couuter-iriitant over which the will has no control, althougli at the same time tlie tittid in passing through the system, acts in harmony with the cir- culating medium. If the above be true, electricity must be useful when applied as an alterative, particularly in glaiuiular swellings, ftkxd nervous weakness. I have proved it to be an active agent in many (iases of this kind, while in others it appeared to hav •• little or no effect, f thiiik its application should Ik; followed with bath- ing the parts in camphor, liniment, salt and water, kc. The I* Medical Faculty " aopear of late to be waking up on thin sub- ject, and have rtported many instances of its value in assisting to remove obstructions from the system. If at any time by cold or obstructions there is a want of healthy action in the vital fluid which forms a part of every man, the electric fluid may be em- ployed with safety to assist nature in her operations. A FEW DISEASES NA'ED, WITH THEIR NATIVE VND INDIAN REMEDIES. In entering upon this part of my work, I shall borrow some from Dr. Beach, of New York, and notice some Indian Remedies from Dr. William's '* Last Legacy." However, the majority are from my own practice and experience. Dr. Beach, of New York, has perhaps few equals, or any superiors in Europe or America in describing the symptoms of disease, and their appropriate remedies. He condemns much of the "Old School Practice," and although a profound scholar, has adopted a Botanic practice wholly, in treating all kinds of »» prevalent in thia .INTERMITTENT OR CHILL FEVER hies *r. !?,•«,* 1 "'",78s lying m the water, decayed veceta- BILIOUS EMETIC. hSir, or halE; Sore th! 1.?';?^^"' °^ the above tea, one tttt'Tn'5'i'lr?^~— ^^^ Ink ;o^S^*'¥& '^ °F^""' ^^"k"™™ ^-''^a-ol 14 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. or catnip tea. Repeat the above course every time the chill re- turns, and the first, second, or third course never fails to remove the cause, although in some places people live exposed to the fever while they are getting ri»i of it. To cleanse the blood take spice bush, white ash bark, dogwood bark, prickly ash bark, tag alder bark, or either two of them, put into a pitcher, adding a few cloves or ginger ; drink cool three or four times a day. Fever and ague may be treated on the same principle. Let it be re- membered, tliat to avoid as much as possible the causes which has induced it is impoi-tant in this and every other disease. AN INDIAN CURE FpR AGUE. Put ^hrec hen's eggs into a pint of vinegar, and when the shell is dissolved by the vinegar the eggs are to be taken out whole, and half a gill of this vinegar is a dose to be taken three times a day. BILIOUS FEVER, OR REMITTENT. In remittent there is a remission or abatement, but the fever does not go entirely off as in intermittent ; this is the difference be- tween the two. It commences with shivering, pain in the head, back, giddiness, sickness at the stomach, which is followed by heat; cleanse the stonuich and bowels the same as in chill fever, and give tonics when the fever is off to brace up the system. SCARLET FEVER. This fever takes its name from the scarlet which appears on the skin of the whole lK)dy, attended with heat, drync§s and itch- ing. After two, three, or four days, according to the violence of the disease, the skin peels off, and branny scales appear over the body. Scarlet fever acts in three degrees ; Ist, putrid sore throat ; 2nd, scarlet rash ; 3rd, malignant fever, according to the constitution of the patient. In either case, give smart weed tea, and lobelia enough f > cause vomiting — and when the fever is on wash the body with milk and water twice a day ; spread a strengthening plaster the size of a dollar, and put it on the lump swelled each side of the neck ; and take a strip of red flannel, moistened with a mixture of lard and camphor gum, and put it round the reck, letting it remain during the fever. For a gargle use sumach bark or b«rries ; also hemlock, allumroot, sage, allum and honey, as the disease attacks the throat and mouth. Never etl\Tfx 'nKtrain i\v* KIaaj-1 A/f^^wk ^Vinm rkVkA^>U««vl «rK^ Ka-vva twvn*-* Kl^^l an< taken physic in the worst stage of the disease have died. Many have lost their lives by exposure to cold after they thought thembclves out of danger. After the skin neels off, great care is necessary ; keep within doors a while, or cold and death may fol- BOTANIC FAMILY PHTSIOTAN. jg BLOODY FLUX, OR DYSENTERY by inhaling aSd swallowinTSt vXLll^' 1"'*^ ''^*' ^ ^^^ liver, when the bowds Snp ^L ^^It*^® secretions of the the capillary vesVeKorm allk w^^^^ morbid humors, and Pa«8e«*^off in bC'y s^Ia ^A;!! " I^ "^^^'^^ of the bowels smartweed, and red ra*nSr;^ i * ^^^""^ ^ ^^ archangel, until the dis^e TchSd % Ztt' .?"" *^-«"P^"' «^«^ W used in injection if nec^Xy. s&it^^ *^^^ in dysentery is rice, scaldS w^Knd V^J^' ^^^ ^* <^*«* ■nent cure for dysentery • taL^^!! , ^^^^ »? ™»^*^- An em- it will dissolve,^aX a^tabt :tC^u1 ofTLT*^ ^ TT^ «^* «» and let it be taken bv siSonful?^ ??-* ^ 5° ^'*"'" °^ ^*o* '^ter, lowed. This do onS i^ZotoZ m 'SttK'^ '^"^^ •"^*»- and water^swJte'filTtM J^^^^^^ ^" -f 'l-^ of milk an hour. "^ ^"S'^'^- ^^ose, one tea-cupful once AN INDIAN REMEDY. me^l'wn'^ P^qutrt ?^^^^^^^^ '^.^.r*^ <>^ ^'^^r. let it sim- W The wSot^ofrg^'LTt^V^^^^^ remedy is simple and efiectSSl ^^ ' *" ^'*'' * *'^'^^- This CURE FOR DIPTHERIA win^'.l^rof*^^-^^^^^ with your finger in a poss We. It will k ifS f„ ^H'^at and swaUow the gargle if or put. Fi„*;hS.rs:.t^i«^rr,it\£^'' SMALL-POX. pint of b.^^r^I;.„^l^Vj^",!! 0/ c'^n of tertar dissolved iS J known as the W^re^^edyl a'Sou^dlts?'' "^'"^"^- '' " MEASLES. This disease is oft^n attended with bad consecjuences. when „ot m BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. V)r<^rly treated. No pains should be spared to drive the putre- iwtion out of the system, and keep it out, till the disease dis- appears. Many persons have died with consumption years after they had the measles. Dr. Thompson says, " When the symptoms make their appearance give a dose of composition powder, or No. 2, to bring them out, then No. 3 for canker, with a little of No. 2 in it to overpower the cold, and when the second dose is given add No. 1. to clear the stomach and promote perspiration- The disorder will then show itself on the outside, If necessary, give an injection composed of smart weed and sUppery elm, boUed in bran water." Small-pox and chicken-pox are treated in the same way* * WHOOPING COUGH. A syrup made of four ounces of elecampane root, one ounce of wake robm, add half a pint of honey, stew ten minu«»8. and strain. Dose, one tea-spoonful, nighi and morning, or when a fit of the cough occurs. Many have died of consumption from the effects of whooping cough. Avoid taking cold : use at bedtime half a tea-cupful of smartweed tea, with a little ginger in it. to guard the lungs against inflammation. INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. This is a dangerous disease. When the membrane which lines the lungs is inflamed it is called inflammation of the lun^s. It at- tacks all classes : it comes with pain in the chest or side, ^reat difiiculty in breathing, with a cough, thirst, &c. It sometimes produces suffocation between the third and seventh days. Prompt means should be used to allay the inflammation. If possible pro- duce free perspiration by giving composition powder, one tea-spoon - fnl, or cayenne in smartweed tea. Use freely catnip tea. Mix one tea-spoonful of pleurisy root in ever tea-cupful of the above teas. A mustard plaster should be used on the cnest until the skin becomes reddened. Use the cough powders night and morning if . necessary. Blood root and balm of Gilead buds, equal parts, are good in all bronchial aflections, in a syrup, sweetened with htmey, Dose, one table-spoonful three times a day. Bathe the feet and 1 chest with salt and vinegar, as hot as it can be borne. Don't , ha,re too many clothes on the patient, or two much outward heat, but keep up the inward heat by giving sweating medicines until the diseAse iH conouered. and you will save the life and constitution I in every instance, inflammation of the hram, bronchitis, «c. should be treated ir the same way. Pleurisy tnay be treated in| the same way, with the exception of Btn&muig and emetic, (lolx3- Ha.) See Thompson's "Course of medicine.* BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 17 INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS ti2l iosS*r t ia clir^f r j« -f^ioned by long con- navel. vomiwtc lt^^^^"^^^J ^^^«'-' P»«« about the when' the b«Sy' * o4rheated h^T"^ ^^ coW drink swallowed tm^tment shoufd he foZwTd ^thTZ'7' . ^^^ ""^^^ «»«»*°? table-spoonful of castor oH should i?!?^ ^^^* "* ^^^ ^*«r- A it operSes. Takete^y wSwo^ taken every two hours until mer in vinegar and wS SJ^' ^.*^^^o"»?. and hope j tim- to the boweraS cS ofteL ^re'in^"^;. "^^ »P^y them smartweed and wormlo^ boil«d ?n .'^J*'°*»«° compoaed of b six hours 5 repeat^Sai^^l^id nl» T^ *^f^' ^^^ and cayenne or red peDW^,«i T.„Jr P^*®"" ' **^« mustard spoonfil. and vinegarTCoisS^U ^l.^'^^T ™f*^ °"« **»**«- bowels until the skin reddens ani-^^?^^. *^"., P^*®"" *« t*»e moved. Inflami^tTor of X' S-er STv li* ."^*? }**« pain i. re- way: apply the ryl^ter S^hlJ^^^ *^^ "^ the same speirmiSt L to Srev^iSt ^oS«ni**^ "^^T *^" I^« «• Give bllraet to promoteSlnimHT^!.! swartweed. camomile and water. Inlam^tioW^e kTdie^*^%*h ^ ^>"* ^^^ °' ^^ the inflammation by ^rsK^^'i"*^ ^u""* °^J«S* ^ *° ^*^«*^ simmered in vinegar toSp^^^ Apply hops and wormwood, the small of thlT^k U^fdin^Sn * «*^»«*t»«»ing Plarter t^ thistle roots or topdivers VinW^« medicme. T^e Canada two of them; mX a 8tmna^» ^®?' «'^''«* ^*' rushes, or of ginger stir Ji^ a^^f ^i's ff jf "^ °^"l^^^ * tea-spoonful obteined. *^ "» * cup Of this tea once an hour until iSSef is AN INDIAN REMEDY FOR INFLAMMATION IN THE HEAD. "f the hM,. «d l»y it on S iS IW th^T^' ""''1 » «»""''« DROPSY. V 18 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSIOIAKT. 'li Also take gravel root, janiper berries, prickly ask, bitter root, horse radish, an ounce of each, bruise them separately and put 9M into one gallon of cider, drink a wine-glass four times a day. It will act on the kidneys carrying off the obstruction. Use a stim- ulating diet. GRAVEL IN THE BLADDER OR KIDNEYS. This complaint should be treated similarly to dropsy. In the diuretic preparations, in addition to those diuretic medicines named for dropsy I shall name some for gravel, viz : — dwarf eider, clivers, Jacob's ladder, red onions, pumpkin seeds. A strong tea of any of the above, or two or three of them may be steeped at a time Sweet fern and blue flag root, equal psu-ts. is good also whortleberry. Spearmint is an excellent remedy ; let the 1 it be bathed,^ and strong tea of spearmint be given at any time. A gill of red onion juice in a pint of horsemint tea is said to dissolve the stone and carry off" gravel. Enlargement of the prostrate gland may be treated similarly to gravel or dropsy. LIVER COMPLAINT Is known by a pain in the right side below the ribs, difficulty in lying on the right side, pale or yellow color of the skin and eyes, pain in the shoulder, a di-y cough, &c. Take a bilious emetic, then a tea of dandelion roots and sweet elder blows or baik, equal purts ; drink freely. Put a mustard plaster on the side till the skin i^dens, after which apply a, strengthening plaster. Wear it constoptly till the pain is gone. Make a strong tea of wild cu- cumber (heal all) or liverwort, and wild lettuce, equal parts— ex- cellent. ' DYSPEPSIA May be treated similarly to liver complaint. Use brown bread., or unbolted wheat meal, avoid condiments saleratus, spirituous liquors, also the violent exercise of the passions. WORMS. The presence of worms may be known by a gnawing sensation about the stomach, and grinding teeth, sickness in the morning, itching, slinxy stools. They are frequently prevented by a simple bitter : poplar, white ashjWonawooa.wormeeed, witch hazeibark, steeped and drank freely. Roots of wild sunflower, hogthistle roots grown in summer fallows. Let children eat them, they are vsry "Qod* Red and whitu cftda*" buds in tea. TAPEWORM, ^ake a half tea-spoonful balsam of fir, with a strong t^ of a sti ong te» of BOTANIC FAMILY pHySICIAN. jj) QUINSY. «ix or eight days, .^t^*£^g:,^^^^^^ \* ™n« it. course if Take Cardm ( bittS- thiatl^i^L^d sT.^^^^^^ t^f^ Without '.t^*^*.nc;L,L-^^4"L s*:; RHEUMATISM. ■^^^^f^^^lcZniX^f^^l r^V'^^ jpinte to swell, tended with fever Tn^ d nt of T^^i,'**^^'^^^^ ^^'*«"* i* i« a*" mustard well Sd-nTnnfL.^/^' ^°''' ^""^^' *»^ «^«««d NEURALGIA, or (TIC DOULOUREUX ) ItI^L"r:itt'ul^l^^^^ ^ — of the faoe. the forehead -as thou^h/Sf' ^.^'"eting from certain parts alK)ut ter of turpitine ^1 the S'oHhe fat™""' ""'"' """• " P'"" WENS, (TUMOUSS.) bitter .wit^'o^ifir^diT^r^uL'* ^'J-'t' tumour tak. ' : tjEAFNESS. ..I^?,S*^" *^.«?« ^'^''"» >• ''d and relaxation of the tvipr^».,.„ ^. ^ip^rind^Sr'l^ ir ^y™ ''!J'*'''''y **" *^« fi^^ cat^ the 20 BOTANIC FAMILY PHTSICIAI^. SPLEEN, (DISEASE OP) Pi Inilamation happens sometimes from cold and over heating the system, then cooling suddenly ; there is pain in the left side, often imder the short ribs, and spasms passin&i upward and duraneing the action of the stomach. Bathe the teet frequently ; appw a mustard plaster ; use anti-dyspeptic pills ; make a tea of comfery and nettle root, equal parts, use frequently. DIARRHEA, or (SUMMER COMPLAINT.) This disease is brought on by eating unripe fruits, suppi^ssion of perspiration, worms, and acrid and unhealthy secretion of bile ; simple diarrhea becomes chronic sometimeij, and often ends with consump^on. Mild emetics and laxatives should be given, fol- lowed by a gyrup of blackberry root. Injections ai'e excellent, eat thickened milk, adding a little ginger. For a c<.*mmon bowel complaint, red raspbeny leaves boiled in milk and water will cure. The best agent is compoaed of anti-diarrhea root, aaxd alum* root, archangel and smartweed, bruise and nmke a tea, drink freely every hour ; it never fails. Either of the above articles have often removed the disease in a few hours. COUC. Colic is known by great pain and gri^^ng In the bowels, the per- son is costive, with retching and vomiting sconetimes. Flatulent, hysteric, bilious and painters colic all proceed from obstructions Give a bilious emetic with strong peppermint tea, or poplar tea ; give an injection made by boiling snuutweed and bran together, strain and add two spoonfuls of strong tobacco juice for a grown person, a child less. I have removed tihe colic in this way when they were given up to die by other doctors. COUGH, CONSUMPTION. A cold produces cough, then comes pain in the side, difficulty of breathing, and then consumption. It settles on the lungs, kid- neys, chest. Use for the oough, life everlasting, ( Indian posy ) and boneset flowers boiled in molasses. Dose, one spoonful night and morning ; when the lungs become ulcerated ih> medicine will heal them. Hence attend to the cough in its first stage. Heatmg medicines are good for colds — Thompson recommends a course of medicine, and repeat till the cause is removed— *pply a plaster to the side where the pain is. Take crawley root two parts, skunk y»qV>V»«/ya niift Hart- wild tumiD one uarti uowder SJid mix in molas- ses, ^his will often cure a cough when nothing else will. After mixing up a teacupful, take -a tea-spoonful three or fow times a day. or four times a BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. ASTHMATIC COUGH, AND PHTHISIC IN OLD OR YOUNG. 21 CUTANEOUS ERUPTIONS, few '(Cs ^1 i.!^^' ^"*^ P*"^.' "*^P ^^etter7han ^rego^ltrVfiTl! frey s cordial ; these contain opium and are injurious CANCER. i, fli^^i?-*P P^^«".*.«^'^«?r8 than to cure them. When th«n« .-.-.--...-, ...r r ..r.......r- ... jf,^ uieast. OF elscwhcre, drink freely of . ow dock and beach drops made «er plaster, slippery elm, &c. D into a> tea ; and apply the cart- H f! ,1' 24 iiOTANlC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. FOR CHILDREN WHO WET THF BID. Take cold thread, one haudful, red beech bark of the green tree, cut fine two quarts, boU them in milk and water, let the child drink frtM)ly of this two hours before going to bed ; continue one '^^*'^' ^^ CORNS. Apply a plaster of turpentine after soaking and paring them,— the best thing known. FOR SCALDS, BURNS, CUTS, BRUISi:S. . The sheet anchor for all the above is cold water. For a scald, instantly wrap the part in several thicknesses of cloth and keep it moist in cold water one hour, it wUl extrai-t the fire, and frost, •where limbs are frozen. For cut.^ raise the cut above the h- id ,( if it bleeds) wash it clean and apply^mall strips of cloth, with stickinc salve, to keep the wound closed, and it will heal unmcdi- atelv without suppuration. Rub bruises with salt and water, ap- ply a strengthening plaster ; give the patient, if necessary, ginger and catnip tea. BITE OF A MAD DOG. (HYDROPHOBIA.) Appb houna *) day TJ ; ; week Kt: have cm ■lit to the wound immediately ; steep lobelia amd hoar- ; ;\egar, equal parts ; wasli the bite three or four times a i>«ig ; every morning take one tea-spoonful of tiie above ka-cupful of skull-cap tea ; contmue this course one i finish with a dose of butternut or mandrake physic. I nave erne i several who were bitten, in this way. Skull cap grows in swales and marshes, it has several branches with thick rows of small blue blossoms succeeded bv caps the size of a small shot, it grows from six to eight inches high, resembling horse mint. KING'S EVIL. Take a good handful of spotted plaintain or " King's evil weed" sarsaparilte, root, equal part, bruise and apply hot water when cool drink freely ; make a poultice of spotted plantain, keep on the tumour till it suppurates and heals, which will be in a short tune. WHITE SWELLING, FEVER SORES. Make a strong tea of Indian rhubarb (or water dock), and princes pine, the roots, to cleanse the blood ; then apply to a fever sore a poultice made of carrot and slippery elm, equal parts, w^h the sore every day with smartweed then apply salve to heal. * or j.«/i Viot herb teas with white sweliing give cayciuie or composiv'- v.., , i i ftn emetic of lobelia every other day ; sweat the part with hemlock and smartweed ; to allay the inflammation rub the parts with - f iring them,-^ BOTANIC I^AMILY PHYHICUN. ^ ^old, &c. «"«"gxnen the parts, an.l avoid exposure, RICKETS. r^''^^i:Sl^^ often bec^^e defonned. also . .eumatic drops-give ch7w,tn!1r ^^^ "' *^« doming, use comtrey and Solonfon's^ieal is e^Se^ *"^ '"'"•^''^"- ^ BySip of SCALD HEAD. A A ARIETY OF VEGETABLE MEDICINE, ASTRINGENTS. »ittaL';'/^7i,,S^^* i™., Wite pond m,. r-Pberry and winter b^.^rGoidl^'^^T*"' *WmblebOTir ANn-sEPTica w ve«tasssrg^"rXd-s^,„^ "^^'»- ANTISPASMODICS of the heaa^-alf designed toX^^S th^ J^Z ^^^^^oi CATHARTICS. the bowels. "wrenrnt. rhere are designed to regnlati MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) 1*5 1 5.0 I 2.8 14.0 2.5 2.2 1.8 ^ /APPLIED IIVMGE I nc 1653 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14609 USA (716) 482 -0300- Phone (716) 288 - 5989 - Fax m 26 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. EMETIC8. r Bitter root, blood root, lol)elia, mandrake, vervine, boneset, blue cohush. The cohuah root, bruised, apply hot water and drink freely. Indian emetic for jaundice, lobelia and blood root, purify the blood. Vervine and 1)oneset cleanse the system of bil- ious and '.norbid humors. AROMATICS. Angelica, camomile, Indian posey, master root, calamus, prickly ash, l)errie8, sassafras, colt's foot. These wil mix with other classes. Colt's foot, good snuff mixed with powdered blood root, equal pai-ts. CARMINATIVES. Angelica, catnip, waterwort, vine maple, white wood, calamus, camomile, smellage, ginger, pleurisy i-oot, white cohush. This class of medicine is to expel wind from the stomach and bowels, a tea of either may be used, or chewed like tobacco ; they strengthen the stomach. BALSAMS AND BATHING. Balsam fir, balm of Gilead, balsam tamarack, dissolved in brandy, good to bathe. Also rheumatic drops, catnip, smart- weed, ^It an.l vinegar, cold water, oil hemlock, oil cedar, pearl- ash, ^ke root ; sliced and boiled for tumors and swellings, -ex- cellent. DETERGENTS. Bittersweet, burdock root and seed, dandelion, elecampane, aarsaparilla, swamp sassafras, wild lettuce, Indian rhubarb, clove root, dwarf alder, sweet alder, princes pme, sumach, tag alder, yellow nlock Two or three articles of this class should be made iiito a tea at one time. Change once a week. They will cleanse the blood completely. DIURETICS. Cuckold, queen of the meadow, thimble beny, nishes, winter- irreen. Jacob's ladder, dwarf alder, juniper, red onions, whortle- berries, pumpkin seeds. All calculated to remove obstructions in the urinary passages, dropsy and gravel. Queen of the meac^w is the most powerful, and should be used with wintergroen. For pain in the Iwwels some of these articles will afford immediate relief. DRAUGHTS. Burdock leaves, mulleu leaves, onions, poke root and leaves, ne, IxMieaet, t water and I blood root, yatem of bil- ,inu8, prickly ix with other d blood root, K>d, calamus, shush. This tnd bowela, a jy strengthen dissolved in itnip, smart- cedar, pearl - ^ellings,- elecampane, lubarb, clove h, tag alder, ould be made y will cleanse ishes, winter- ons, whortle- bstructions in the meadow jrgrcen. For rd immediate t and leaves, BOTANIC FAMILY PhYSIClAN. baswood leaves, walnut leaves, garlic roots, wilted, and tlie roots roasted. 27 Leaves should be EMMENAGOCJUES. ril^Ha^'j^'t' ^?^^' ^e**^erfew. smartweed, blue vervine, pleu- TrTr^f 'f n "* ^'^"IP 'T*' «o"them wood, &c. Either of these ^^ffp^r^i K *t- ^^njale obsti-uctions, but should generally be as- sisted by bathing the feet, pills and powders. y ^ EXPECTORANTS. Blood root, lobelia, bitter root, mandrake, skunk cabbaee swamp snake root, colt's foot, wild turnip, pleurisy root Fofa powerful expectorant, compound blood root, one part lobeUa one part, mandrake, two parts. Vary a« occasion may ' require OINTMENTS. low'^dTr^*' T"*''"^!*'- ^^^^'^ Plaintain, white alder, yel- Indian it;baTTJP'*''"f/'^' ""P^^^ "''"' ^^'^'^P "^^^^^^ Indian ihubarb. Iwo or three may l>e put together, bruise and POULTICES. lil^Sw'' ^^') sorel smartweed, wormwood, white pond warn^ ^' ^^^'•^«' ^J^ite pine-roasted, wilted, and applied SALVE AND STRENGTHENING PLASTER. together s'ti^fn ^T ^'Ptl'**^ ' ^"« P^""'^' ^^^^ «'« >^hole U)gether strain, and when blood warm, add half a pound pulver- ized comfrey ; mix, stir till cold, excellent. ^ ^ SALVE FOR FEVER SORE, EXTRA. on^i^n^uifr^^''"' Pf""'^ hee^y^e^x, five ounces neatsfoot, oil, RHEUMATIC SALVE, OLD SORES, &c. bon dow'^t'^)^'"'^' ^'i *"^ *^^ ^^'^''*^^^ >" extracted, strain and rSl/irf *'^T]f''*^"'y"^**^'■' (*^«"'t ^>«rn it) then to ten G^ nomfd oft'' ^'' P"""i^f turpentine, five inlunds of resh" :„*!L'J P""/!'' «^ bees wax, melt the resin, turpentine and bee« wax «.pCLucr, ineu meit tiie i)eech gum, when melted stir till thoroughly .^ ntt oiX T T' 7'f '"'^t''''^' *•" ^^^' fi* f«'- "«- ThU Try ?t ^ rheumatic plaster, -extraonlinary. 28 Hi BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. STRENGTHENING PLASTER. Take miiUen and burdock leaves, equal parts, comfrey and smartweed, equal parts, boil all together, straui and boil down aa thick aa tar, don't bum it, then add three parts turpentine and four parts resin, l>oil all together a few minutes, then pour the mass into a pail of cold water, work it with the hands lute wj^x. Good for back, side, shoulder, &;c. MUSTARD PLASTER. Wet ground mustard with the white of an egg, spread it on a cloth and apply till the skin redaens. Extrp«rainary to ijase pain and inflammation. STIMULANTS. Boneset, baybeny. Barberry, red cohush, blue vervine, camo- mile, columbo, gold thread, golden seal, gensen, vine maple, bal- mony, black popple, dogwood, black cherry, archangel, white wood ; remove obstructions then two or three of the above articles are excellent. STYPTICS. Yarrow, aveus root, alum root, white and red l)eet root, winter drake, puff ball, pine bitters. To stop bleeding, internal or external, always raise the cut part above the head if possible. SUDORIFICS. Ague woed, catnip, ginge .', hemlock, burnet, penneyroyal, spice bush, mountain mint, hoi-semint, peppennint, spearmint, may- weed, camomile, summer savory, hyssop, wliite vervi'^'^ balm, smartweed ; all good to open the pores and promote p«i ition, for colds, obstinictions and while giving an emetic. SYRUPS. Boneset, vervine, spikenard root, ( with the pith taken out ), elecampane, comfrey, popple, balm of gilead buds, skunk cablmge, peach and M'ild ch«^ny pits, vine maple ; fof common syrups boil the articles, two or three of them, stiain off and add sugar and spirits enough to prevent souring. VERMIFUGE. Black slder, hops, wor5n.wf>o' balm, p«i ]>tion. \i taken out ). unk cabbage, II syrups boil Id sugar aixl 5S 01) oak or vlasses, cedar V tea of either BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. TINCTURES, SOLUTIONS. » Put four ounces hemlock gum, one ounce of hemlock oil into one quart of braiidj^ Good to bathe in rheumatiam. Black alder, mandn^ke and blood root made fine, four ounces of each, one ounce «lif ^^'T^: Pm^ ^^\^ """^ «.*"**^ ""' ^^hiskey. Bathe any painful part, and it will relieve. A tea-spoonful mixed in waterftaken three timss a day is good for pain in the breast, colic, &c. ANTI-SPASMODIC LINIMENT. Take No. 6 (Thompson's) add to a half pint, half an ounce of mphor Kum. one anoonfnl snirif^. .^f f„^«il,*:J ' ,'t , camphor gum, one spoonful spirite o"f tu^pe^'Se/oneT^nfiS' of together ; *or cramps or lockjaw, bathe. It is a ■irtlll linimorif hartshorn, shaken to^„.„^. , .,. most safe and powerful liniment FOR FATHERING IN THE EAR .•nt^^ll*''*""V?" ^l' T ?''^P' ^°«'» ^*^*J' one drop, mix t^d put ^e^ witr^> "^ *""*> ***'lf .*^r« * ^««^' *»^«n ^^t the w, ole FOR SALT RHEUM. tJ^^Zl^^ ^'"''K '''^*' «<^blo««. »nd swamp u..^fn«, equal parts, boil down strong and add one pound of lard Simmer down to an ointment, kb the parts a^cted three or four Sm^ ITCH OINrMENT. Take fine sulphur, one ounce, turpentine one ounce, lard half a t^r^ld™!nnf 'h'^ and turpentinerthen add the sulplm,^ stt it CELANDIIJE OINTMENT FOR PILES. W J^f '^•^l^'' ^'^^." ««lanJi«e, bruise and cover it with anv let the X!^' ^"'^^ «»'»'««\*^hiJe; then add fresh butter? S let the whole remain over the fire until the leaves are criLi^ IN.TECTIONS. ,•« 'S^" k"": ^""x '" """"'^^ ^ ueKiected, when necessaiy . A syringe IS the best instrument. Mild mucilage of slipperv elm mn teo'-'a^:? :?te':^'"' '^"t^"' ^f rSpper, tKeel^d to! nacoo , any of the above may be used in bmn tea with safety. 30 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. ^ IRRITATING PLASTER. Take one pound of tea, half a pound of turpentine, beeswax, half a pound ; melt, strain, and boil a few minutes, then remove from the fire and stir in the following, as it cools, finely pulverized, mixed, and sifted, viz : — poke root, mandrake, blood root, and wild turnip, three ounces each. Keep stirring till the whole mass is well mixed. Hpread on a soft piece of leather and place over the part affected ; keep it on as long as you can bear it, then re- move and put it on again in a day or two. When removed, wash the parts with salt and water, or comfrey ; this plaster will bring out eruptions like the small-pox, and causes a discharge of matter. It is superior to all other plasters for old ulcers, spinal diseases, pains in the side, &c. FEMALE REGUL .TING PILLS. Take beef's gall ( l)oil in a kettle and when dry it will powder ) one table-spoonful, gensen root, one table-spoonful, vervine leaves, do., ginger, do., alder flowers or leaves, do., Indian hemp root, do., tansy, do ; wet the whole mass with strong smai-tweed tea. work till thick enough, and then roll them in powder of bitter root and cayenne pepper. Powder all the above fine, and sift be- fore mixing. Bathe the feet in hot water and take from three to SIX at bedtime. An invahiable remedy. BILIOUS PILLS. Take half a bushel of butternut bark, peeled in May or June, bruise and boil down half, strain and afterwards evaporate to the consistence of thick honey. Be careful not to bum it. It may be dried in a warm oven nntil it will pill, i-oU the pills in powder of blood root and bitter root, equal parts, adding one spoonful of ginger to the mass before making into pills. Dose, from two to five pills, the size of a pea, at bed-time. EMETIC PILLS. Boil boneset, A'ervine and smartweed, equal parts, strain and boil down as thick as tar, roll in cayenne and lobelia. Dose, from one to six, drink milk ponidge or bran tea, — excellent. MANDRAKE PILLS, (ANTI-DYSPEPTIC). Take powdered mandrake root, four parts, gensen root powder, one part, cayenne pepper, two parts, wet the mass with smart- weed tea and form into pills. Dose, from three to six at night are sufficient to regulate the bowels. These pills are anti-dyspep- tic. Good for jaundice. They may be made with mandrake, two parts, cayenne, one part. Dose, the above. lie, beeswax, then remove ly pulverized, ood root, and le whole mass jfld place over ar it, then re- imoved, wash ter will bring ■ge of matter, iiial diseases, will powder ) ervine leaves, I hemp root, lai-tweed tea. der of bitter i, and sift be- te from three May or June, -porate to the t. It may be in powder of 3 spoonful of from two to i, strain and . Dose, from tit. IC), root powder, with smart- six at niiiht anti-dyspep- h mandrake. BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. VEGETABLE SNUFF. 31 r.Z^^^^T^{^^ ^T^' r^'l*'' ^^* 'oot, and bloo '^'-^"""g the Tr^^ * f ' I ''• = . ^^'^Pectorant, to produce spitting ; Su- donfic, to sweat ; diuretic, to cleanse the urinary passages and rer^Jt? *^ '^^}f:'^!^^ ^^«^«- And no medicine^canTa u^^ versal remedy without possessing the aJjove properties. A VARIETY OF CANADFA:^ PLANTS WITH THEIR MEDICINAL PROPERTIES. y\ hile it is admitted that overy countiy has remedies for its own diseases, Canada, for its botanic remedies, perhaps is not ex ceeded by any other part of America. Those imturaT agents or vegetables which the God of nature has planted for us f re mo?e SSw ^ «"r «^««*^t"«o»« than foreign importations. N^ve plants were used by the Indians of this country long before Amer ^ was discovered and we are indebted to them fm some of the best medicines in the world. ANTI-DIARRHCEA. ( BEARS' FEET ) Sr^ Jl^ *.^^i ^"^^^^"^ '"'''''"^^ *"'* ^^"^S^^' ^*^^'«« Jieart shaped and ".vr ^ :*' ■■^ 'Tttiut siiiipcij, cac size 01 a fiuirer niiikv with a coatmg of brown and yellow. The best medicine fo^ bowel and summer complaints among children in Europe or America. Use, bruise tlie roots and boil in milk and water or :v2 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. m: dry and powder the roots. Dose, one tea-spoonful in hot water sweetened. Repeat if necessary. It will not fail of a cure. ALUM ROOT, ( CRANE'S BILL), Grows from six to twelve inches high, ( on sandy soil ) branches out, and from between its branches puts forth a purple flower, succeeded by spikes, which give it the name of Crane's Bill ; the roots are astringent, used to cure dysentery, bleeding, flooding, whites : gargle for sore mouth. INDIAN RHUBARB, ( WATER DOCK), Grows in marshes, in ponds and stagnant water, from three to sir feet high, resembling yellow dock. Several yeai's ago at the Grand River, an old Indian, Dr. Hill, used the powdered root, in tea spoonful doses in hot water for dropsy, rheumatism, liver complaints and consumption. He said, " if perspiration took place after giving a dose of this medicine in a few hours he gener- ally restored his patient with common remedies. It is the best agent I know for all scrofulous humors. For venereal, a strong tea made of this root bruised, with double the quantity of adder tongue, ( the first leaf that appears in the spring, spotted and glossy,) drank freely, and applied as a wash, will cure this loath- some disease. INDIAN HEMP. Grows in marshes, and by the side of streams, two or threa feet high, purple blossoms on the top, succeeded by silky pods pomtinc upwards. The stalk is covered by a tough bark like hemp, the root is an excellent vei-mifuge, and promotes menstru- ation. INDIAN POSEY, (LIFE EVERLASTING). Is a balsamic plant growing on knolls in old pasture fields, from one to two feet high, with blossoms on the top which continue through the winter. It has a beautiful smell. This herb boUed m milk and water is a popular remedy for bloody flux and in- flammation in the bowels. It is invaluable as an expectorant. CRAWLY ( JEWEL NERVE ROOT). Is generally found in the neighborhood of beech drops. It has no leaves, comes up with a single stalk about a foot high, with numer- ous pods hanging down like jewels, containing a fine seed. The root 13 brittle, not as large as a quill, growing in a bunch, the branches resemble fingers and toes. The powdered root two parts, skunk cabbage, one part, wild turnip, one part, mixed with molasses, BOTAVIC KAMII.V I'HYSU'IAV. in hot water a cure. loil ) braiichea mrple flower, ie'3 Bill ; the ing, flooding, n three to six ago at the lered root, in latism, liver >iration took urs he gener- ' is the l>e8t real, a strong tityof adder spotted and *e this loath- two or threa )y silky poda ;h bark like 'tea menstni- 0). I fields, from ich continue herb boiled flux and in- >ectorant. 8. It has no M'ith numer- ed. The root tiie branches parts, skunk th molasses, :» will cure the worst cough, or the root an-l top lK>iled'with rn.lian posey 18 extraordinary. *»"»ii INDIAN KKMKDY FOR JAUNDICE. hi^il^^Fy" """^^i '*^fP '*.^" /^''^«*'' ""*" •* "'ai^es a strouij mtter ; take a erry, the root is the size of a thread, very yellow and bitter ; a good tonic, gargle for sore mouth, &c. ANGELICA (MA8TERW0RT), Grows in marshy woods, flowering in June and July, five or six feet high, large hollow stalks resembling parsnip, it is good for cohc, pain m the stomach and bowels? steeped with Hogwo^l hemes or bark, in a dose of one gill three or four times a day, it is a great tonic and canninative. »j^i «•- w CELANDINE, ( TOUCH ME NOT), Grows by springs and brooks, with yellow blossoms speckled in- side, juicy large-jomted. brittle stalks, flowers are succeeded by oblong pods which fly into shreds when touched: garden celail- dine has large leaves with long pods like cabbage am! when broken a yellow juice inins out. These are a powerful medicine applied to warts, nngwonns and for piles and dropsy. ^'^ BEECH DROPS. W^*"*?'**?* ^'''''^* J'"'^®*' ''®*'*^^ *»*««»' ^i'^ «i- eight inches high, brittle, of a brown color, root bulbous ; it is good to cure canm' ulcere and St. Anthony's fire. w i-uie cancel, CONVULSION ROOT, ( WILD POPPY), Rises in rich soil in the woods, bunches of white stalks four to six inches high, white buds tummgdown like a poppy, roots resemble a mass of rotten wood full of small seed ; the stilks bruised and steeped with beech drops, equal parts, is a powerful remedy for fits m children or symptoms of fits in ohi or young ; it may be freely drank with safety; it will always strengthen the system. A YENS ROOTS, ( CLOVE ROOT), Grows a foot high near fences, blossoms in July, on long spikes root smells like cloves. - Water avens, Idossoms purplish, appeal ISJIf^* {f«y «fe astringent, good for canker and cleanse the olood, use them togetlier. 34 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. COMFREY ROOT. Pf.i Is goo»l boiled in milk for bowel complaints, immoderate courses and fluoralbus. BLOOD ROOT. Well known, in large doses it is a good emetic ; in small doses of half a tea-spoonful of the powdered root, it is good for ulcerated sore throat, proup and hives. WILD TURNIP, ( WAKK ROBIN), Well known, is good for old people in cases of asthma, cough ; it 18 good for women who are not regular ; one tea-spoonful of pow- dered root mixed with smartweeon the lungsamf » luces .. ..V...... also cure l>ot8 in horaes. ported genseu, A tonic liver. It will (iKNSKN QUKEN OF THK MEADOW, (GRAVEL ROOT ) BOXESET, ( THOROUi m WORT. ) ^TfohiV'rt'S' ^^r/r* ^"«^' *^« l««^f «""ounds the stalk at BLUE AND WHITE VERVINE with whit^ blosHoma tkT ' .^ ^^^ '^"««^ spangles with W^et Atea of them T.^STnf'"' emetic alone o^ miid tion,-root and top ^^ ^''' consumption, menstnia. PLEURISY ROOT, (WHITE ROOT, BUTTERFLY WEED,) mX fllwt'^rtt ti"'^^^"U^"'•* ^'^^^^^ *^'« «^- tt^ree feet sX' Sinnnw^r^^lt ^r^^'* ^'"^^^^ ^*^^«''' «"«ceeded by pods siiKy, pointing upward like fingers, ro( arrot shaoed brittip rirMamtvro'n'i ir "f • *";' •■°<" ' "^"^ lo. ^uriug p :• nsy, innammation of the lungs, liver, and dvsfli.tprv F^- «„., Orows about the Grand river and lake Erie is better than in, ported, and as a stimulant It is much used! ™' 86 B<»'l \MC FAMILY I'llVSICIAN. .ft ^ t [' 4 ^- > vjn (;OLDKN SKAL, GrowH altnit the (iraiul i-iver and Bear creek, from four to eight inches high, leaves like alum rIET M)lted wheat rse and made r, while that )sia, by a de- lid that the )hium, which landers, who Highlanders, oatmeal and t more meal, then bake it. BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 3^ Bread and Mii.k._I» an excellent dish. be eaten with butter ThbtpreSS'^K^^^^^^ -^H : to and waa the only bread „,ed b^feTemlfe'nLl''''-' '■■«". » h;ttt'^"p^rs'ti?:';'sr:s\r:t^rfi?,°''^'- '^-i,«-- -w water. «oodto,trengthe''nai^"iaandb?w'Sf ""'""« for sick and well. * ' " D"ttermilk pop. Good TERMS OF CLASSIFICATION OF MEDICINE. .pima;''""""'™-«''^'*'"'P°«'-«' -ilaying irritation and powrX^riy.^"""^"---" •"■"""«.<"■ contacting the AMTl-SEmcs—Against mortification Oarminatves.— Medicine to dispel wind Cathartics, -Medicine to purge downward. iMET.C8.-To aet upon the ston,ach independently Detergent T„ «i.»...., ._j ^__ .. ,. .V '"""y- D.nRET.c».-Medicine8 which increa« urinary discharire, m»'»«- of^in h. 40 BOTANIC FAMILY PHY8ICIAN. M i Emmenauoofeh. — Medicines to promote the menatrual dis- charge, or courses. Expectorants. — Medicines which increase discharge of mucous from the lungs. Styftich. — Medicines to stop blood, or bleeding. SuDORiFics. — Medicines which produce copious sweating. Stimulants. — Medicines which give tone to the system. MrciLAOE. — Slimy substances to strengthen the body. VERMiFnoE. — Medicine to expel worms. Laxative. — A mild physic. I would say in conlusion, to all into whose hands this work may come, do not read to find fault, unless from sober reflections you cannot approve of its conteirts, and may the Almighty, who has caused medicine to grow for the benefit of man, bless the feeble efforts of the author. ', .1 uenstrual (lis- arge of inuuous jweatiug. system. ])0(ly. ids this work her reflections Vlmighty, who nan, bless the APPEIfDII. THE THOMSONIAN PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. . Dr. Thompson argues that the immediate cause nf all .>;co„ eay, ihat heat is life and cold is dmfh . fha+ .,^1 1 •* ^i an, heat the Me„d of ,nan, wh ch in Si ^^^S fovlr T"'" aSe''''S"11r '•^ I-"'* driven fri^Te S™./^ S Th? IrtVK"'''"V''^''°' ^'"^ ■"«• ">'<' owns rtlh," t^TsTweit and the like, and keep the determining nowers L Ihl^ t '. ' keying up the inwarJ heat on whiSiffi:^^^^^^^^ the surface by maiepensably necessary, especially where there^L^^ftL^ a""^ » ^Kufartjfr^^ltl'T- ""' ^i'""* *"»''' •* "»™<> through » regular course of the medicine, and repeated every second orthiTd 42 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. day, if the case should require it. The inward heat and perspira- tion should be kept up by giving a dose of No. 2 or 6, or both to- gether in a tea of No. 3, or of the composition powder. If any nervous affections appear add to each dose half a tea-spoonful of nerve powder ; it may be used instead of opium in all cases of pain, restlessness, &c., and has none of those bad effects which often attend the use of opium. The doses of it may be repeated every ten or twelve minutes till it has the desired effect. The nerve powder is the root of the American valerian reduced to a fine powder. Be careful in all cases after taking the patient through a course of medicine, to keep up the internal heat perspiration by giving No. 2 and 6, in a tea of the composition powder. To prevent a relapse of the disease the patient should frequently drink during the day of a tea made of bla^k poplar bark, and evening and morn- ing a teacupful of tea made of No. 3. If costive use the bitter root in powder, in doses of half a teaspoonful, and give injections of No. 2 and 6, in a tea of No. 3, or according to the directions in the table of medicinfe, so as to procure at least one or two stools a day. The patient's diet should be light and easy of digestion, given often in small quantities. If taken through a course of medicine, or while under the operation of the emetic, the strength is to be supported by chicken broth, or milk porridge, to be given at each interval of vomiting. To open the pores on the surface of the skin, the patient should frequently be washed with soap suds or an alkali wash, especially when the fever runs high and the skin is dry, this helps to bring on a perspiration, and promotes the citre. Fever is a disturbed operation of heat, what is commonly called fever is the effect, and not the cause of disease. Cold causes an obstruction, and the fever arises in consequence of that obstruction to throw it off, this is universally the case ; remove the cause and the effect will cease. No person ever died of a fever, for as death approaches the patient grows cold, until in death, and the last spark of heat is extinguished. A TABLE OR LIST OF MEDICINES AND THEIR PRE- PARATION, ACCORDING TO DR. THOMSON. No. 1.— The Emetic. LoheWi injlnfa, or Indian tobacco. No. 1 may be prepared in three different ways. The first preparation is to reduce the leaves, pods and seeds, to- gether or separate, to a fine powder. The seeds are the best. A teaspoonful is a dose, and must be repeated once in ten or fifteen minutes till it operates. Put nothing hotter than blood warm to the powder or it will destroy its emetic virtxies. t and perspira- 6, or both to- ivder. If any ea-spoonful of t all cases of effects which ^ be repeated lI effect. The reduced to a ough a course ion by giving To prevent a drink during ling and mom- the bitter root injections of rections in the two stools a ^estion, given e of medicine, ngth is to be given at each lurface of the soap suds or and the skin promotes the nmonly called jld causes an lat obstruction the cause and r, for as death and the last ?HEIR PRE- MSON. tobacco. No. 1 and seeds, to- the best. A ten or fifteen lood warm to BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 43 gether, strain and soueei^ n,,f «ii ^.l^^- ' ""'^ *^'"^ powder to- ^i^i^li^mvisXse TohT^^^^^ a tea-spoonful of emetic. This nremratim, i!Tt ^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^» g^^'e" as an token into tM iTadf o \" teS^ aTnH^' ^T' T^ "^^^ '- jellent medicine for the astl^n" o"LTPt LafnVnf^^^^^ T '■^• In cases where people get poisoned with > J"P''''"* ""{f^'^ I»"gs- as lockjaw fits bitP nf mn/i 1 i attacks of disease, such that the patient has Income st^ffn^ulf^.- 'P^'"'' ^\^ '« ^'i«l«»<= some of this U.^uid bcSeS^hfteeth it wil/?f ''h ^^ J^^"""^ soon as it touches the Klani at thr,w^fii^^^*^^^^^^ *''^ 'P^«"^» a« mouth will open. Then Live « d L , ^ ^^'^ *''">'''*^' «« **^a* «'*. thestoCStdtt tK^^ «-«tic, if cold it should first £™Ldhv«' "^^^*^^«^? If tJ^e stomach be composition tercayenne ir No ^fitT T^'T^ ^'^'^ ^^''^ ' *'»« pearlash thesiS S a pea dissolvedin I'^.i" '^"" ^^^^ ^"'"P ^^ rect the acidity and sweeWi thl S^ \ "^^ '^^*^' ' *'^^« ^^i" «o^- iting drink pemrroyTtta in nr.? ""f ' , ^° P^^'"^*^ ^^e vom- cleaned repLtth^doLa^thPn««l' ^ ^'^''•' **^^ «^'"^«J^ ^e» mediate times of vom?thi? c tZ v"^^'''^"^^.' ^''^ ^« *^»« ^"^1- given to support the pSInt"" ^'"'^ ^' '^^^*^ P^^^^^^^ '"^y »>e to^ltii-r'tT^^^^^^^^^ -^ -^<^ the system like butwhenitc^mes^rconScrwU^-P^*'^"*^^ b"* «*«e ; patients, and ro^rerrcHpiitTSt^^^^^^^^^^^ emetic may beventured on ZZJ^JJ^J^.t !^^1 .^'?^'- .T'^^ fe*" is over the patient may ;a^t•^„yl-^thIu:•eas"y"o7 frota1;aTf'tr^o,^t:a"ton1^^^^^^^^^^ "1 ?^ ^ ^-^ gi- fifteen minutes, until at:^^;^^^,/^ Sf^lt i^^^^C 44 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. in a tea of the composition powder, in hot water, in a tea of No. 3 or a.jy of the other numbers, and should he sweetened. The patient shouhl be sliielded at the same time with a blanket by the fire, or in beark ; white pond lily, the root ; hemlock, the in- ner bark ; of each an equal quantity reduced to powder and mixed together. Steep half an ounce of this powder in half a pint of boiling water. For a dose, a common wine-glassful sweetened. When all tlie ingredients cjumot be had they may be used sepa- rate, or any of the following 8ul)stituted in their place, viz. : red raspberry, the leaves ; witchhazel, the leaves ; sumach ( or slioe- make ), the leaves, bark or berries. No. 4.— The Bitters. Take of balmony the lierb ; black pop- lar, the inner baik : l)ayl)erry, the inner bark ; of each equal parts, to be leduced to (powder, one ounce of this to a pine of hot water and a half pint of spirits, or to a quart of spirits. From a half to a vvhole wineglassful may be taken three times a day. For hot bitters, a tea-spoonftd of No. 2, to one ounce of the powders. No. 5.— STREN(miENiN(i Syrup, Take of bayljerry, the bark or roots and poplar Imrk^ one pound of each, boil them in two gallons of water, strain and add seven pounds of good sugar, tlien scald antl skim it, add half a pound of peach or cherry stone meats, pounded fine ; when cohl aiid a gallon of good brandy and keep it in Iwttles for use. Take half a wine-glassful tM'o or three times a day. No. «.— The Hot Drops, or Rheumatk; Drops. Take of good fourth proof biandy, or alcohol, one gallon ; one pound of gum myrrh, pounded fine ; one ounce of No. 2 ; put them together in a stone jug, stand the jug unstopped a few minutes in a kettle of boiling watei', then take it out and let it settle, and bottle it for use ; or let tlie ingredients stand four or five days in the jug with- out boiling. A tea-spoonful is a dose. These drops may be employeil to advantage in rheumatism, pain in the back or side, corns, felons, wind and pain in the stomach or bowels, sprains, bruises and wounds. They are good to bring down swelling in old sores, and allay inilammation ; to ease pain, and prevent mortification internally or externally ; good ill most diseases either to be taken into the stomacli or by injec- tion. In hea(lache they often give relief by rubbing some on the lorcncaa, smifiing a little up the iiuse, and swallowing some. it also prevents faint feelings by taking a small dose ; and it pro- motes perspiration. Wiien applied externally in rheumatic pains it may be mixed with the lobelia tincture { second preparation ) ; a tea of No. 3 setened. The blanket by the Ije e(jually as ig. Red pep- « Take of bay- mlock, the in- (ierand mixed lalf a pint of ul sweetened, je used sepa- ice, viz. : red ach ( or slioe- b ; black pop- 3h equal parts, of hot water 'roiD a half to ay. For hot powders. rry, the bark them ill two >d sugar, tlien cherry stone I brandy and I tM'o or three Take of good 3und of gum together in a I a kettle of bottle it for the jug with- rheumatism, pain in the liey are good unmation ; to rnally ; good or by injec- some on the y some. It and it pro- nmatic pains reparation ) ; botank; family piiysk^ian. 45 rU:trt:yttK: '''■""'■ "'■'*"''■"<''■"■■ -• ^i'* of V'kcktahi.k Composition Pownvw Toi,^ f i 1 »'ark of the roots, tM^o pounds ; t^ huleT itk of tl^TT '^'' pound ; g iiL'er. one nniin<] • ,.]A,. 1 ♦ ^^ liemlock, one two oun!?est all reduS o a h"e V^"?e."•S; ' -'^l""^ ^^^^ through a Hue sieve For « ^lo!! f I " ""^^'' **"'^ si^ed the limbs, stonmch Iml Welf .1^^^^^ ''''l ' ''V'^'^'^^'he. P»i" iii '-""t the hoSo;^.r^:;^;^~^t:k?r:bb"' ^^!1t ?'^"*« ^-- i-^^s; lia, one oai't ; cayenne one nn^f . ?'''' *"""r*' «»«Pa>t ; lol>e- bitterroot one3T ^' " P^'*,' '^^^y'^^^T loot l«irk, one part : well .nixed together ' S ?r ^n' '"f ?f ' ' ^" '"''''« ^'"^ ^^'^ in West InclS'moSsses tI . ?.''-'"^"^ ^'' '' ^^'^^' ^^ be taken to be persisted ntJ 1 ^iief^sobtthied"' T "" ^""''V' '•^''' ^"'' "> any cough, consumption, Ic ^''''' P^*^'*''^'*^ ^^•'-* ^^od mony the herb hn?f 1 '^^y'^^^T' the bark of the root ; bal- or weakness of tile stomach !-'-""-; <-^-.-c<{ :,^ suaigestiou ta X tract or syvupof black poplar }^-k. thr'ee parts, and 46 BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. of No. 6, one part ; of these a sufficient (quantity to form tlie whole into aproper niasa for pills. The extract or syrup is made thus : boil the strength out of the Imrk ; rill up the kettle with water two or three times, strain otf the liquor and boil it down to tiie consistency of thin molasses. These pills may )>e employed to scour the stomach ; they should be taken at night when going to bed. Enough should l)e taken to nauseate the stomach and not puke, ( which is from two to six). Should voniiting take place the patient should drink pennyroyal tea, oi- the milk, as hot as he can bear it. These pills are good for a sick lieadache, a cold, watery and sour stomach, for indiges- tion, dyspepsia, &c. For dyspepsia, in addition to takin<' tiie pills at night, half a tea-spoonful ot the l)itter root in powder, should be taken two or three times a day. 1n.ie(!TIon —Make a strong tea of No. 3, ov any of the articles recommended for c:anker, stiain off the tea while hot, add half a tea-spoonful of N6. 2, and a tea-spoonful of No. 0. In nervous affections add half a tea-spoonful of nerve powder, when cool enough to give, and in all cases two or three table-spoonfuls of West India molasses. If poison has been taken into the stomach or intestines, a tea-spoonial of the tincture No. 1 may ))e added, and likewise slippery elm l)ark ; the ))ark must be added to the first ingredients for the tea. Wlien the bowels are left sore on account of any disease, give an injection of a tea made of slipjiery elm bark, red raspberry leaves, witch-hazel leaves or both ; this has a tendency to heal them. PoPLTroK. Take slippery elm bark, pulverized, with ginger and pounded cracker ; make a strong tea of red raspl)erry leaves, or No. 3, and of these make a poultice. This is a proper applica- tion to old sores, scalds, bad Inirns, parts frozen, felons and whit- lows. Renew the poultice once in twelve or twenty-four hours, keeping it wet with cold water, or the above tea ; at each renewal wash the affected part with soap suds ; when the part discharges good matter apply the salve. Salve.— Take of bees' wax and salt butter each one pound, one and a half pounds of turpentine, twelve ounces of V)al8am of fir, melt and stir them well together, then strain off. After the in- flammation is allayed, it may ])e used for Inirns. scalds, freezes, all bad sores, fresh wounds, &c. .f. .X, r. ^-i.iiiuK.-, I.— jiiKt; ui jjittcr-sWcet, inc barK oi the roots* two parts ; equal ([uantities of wormwood and camomile, one part' put these into any kinStKKX(;tiikm.V(; Plastip To I ex ^ , ••niise, aiul put them S IIIhI' 1'""'^'^'^ '""^ '"""e" leaves strain, and ^ess al the uice ou^^^^^^ T *"" ' '>'^^"^' I'and.s ; apply to the pa afSed "ft i^^^' ^/ '''\ tl"" leather and •sprains and rhiun.ati.n, /^ '' ^^"^'^ ^"»' ^'""^ ^>'^^K sides, onrj^:of;^S:-ii;it^^^;^^ ounces; Wtterroot. black poplar, the' i^ e •' bark iJi^^ ', '^^ '"^»>' two draclunn ; drachn!. One ounc "S he "^ed. ^1*^^":'"^^ "•^>'?"^' '"^'^ ^^ added to a (|uart of wine • fro n h-^lf f. '\^»e POwder may be three times i day. Port 'J'Z^i^ TE''"^ '"'-^^ '''' '^^^^'^ lliese l)itters cause an agreeable -wirmfl. +i... i j., by increasing the circulation o the Cd oZ^- *'f '''^'''^■"' nerxous weakness and costiveL.« . 11 • ^^""'^ '" dyspepsia, give tone to tb.e stomach 6x^1 ? '• f/ '"rf^"*^ *''^ appetite, ache occasio,.e(l CS^ "''P'^* fff!"gs an.Vhea.i: cold. These bitters are laltT^^^^^^ "'"''?'" '^''' V^^^' «^ «"'l'»en old. Ooo»,^«a«e- I" all ca.se8 of this kinA the dif- In caHCH of long HtJinding where the patient has been run down th mercury and left in a col.l obstructe.l state, liable to rheu n ajism and other complaints of a similar nature, medicin. is in- sufficient to effect a cure without steam, as nothing will remove mercury but heat When a patient has been long u.ulcr mercu- rial treatment, and while under the operation of the steam, when the heat ,s at the highest the face wift swell in conse^uenc; oTthe ,mrZrT"'r''"*'\?"''*'"«^^^^ '^"<1 *'»« face \Juyr open to It. To re leve this put the patient into bed, with the head covered an.l let him breathe a lively steam as Lot as clin be bonie, from a steaming stone ; the cloths l)eing wet with water and vinegar, in which the stones are wrappe.f; thi« will tW out the poison in abbut fifteen or twenty miinit;s after Ses>^t,ed part sweats freely, and then sM'elling will abate. For the ague i I, n Jr^K °'; ^''" *°«*h ^^h«' a>'<» ^l^^" c'nl^lven are stuffed in the lungs, the face may be steamed as above directed. In cases of 11 the side, stomach or shoulder, if a steaming stone is api)lie.l to the part pained, it will generally give relief. ^^ In all cases of fall or bruises, steaming is almost infallible and much better than bleeding; if the advantages of steam uL we •« f "fn ^] ?"T'' "' '^'^V^ ^^"«' '^^'^"^^^^ ^"^1 th« like, blee ii g rr ^•'''^'**'.'" \1 T""''^'^ *^ '" ^"'^h cases. Before an.l after steaming, give the hottest medicine you have and keep up the perspiration free until the pain anf heat to tJie f other means een run down iable to iheu- iiedicine is in- g will remove under mercu- I steain, when equence of the »e face l)eing with the head ot as can he t with water is will throv terthe sw iied or the ague in itutt'ed in the In cases of stich of wind is applied to :nfallil)le and learning were ike, bleeding )re antl after keep up the In all cases ot to 1m3 re- r, suspended oducing per- the body in heat to the IS caused l)y heat enough 18 far above it, and this stored ; then ;hat heat on :v the steam tir by a l)lan- i going over liOTANlf KAMlLy PHYSICIAN. 4^ While Bteaniint/ii? JnSL..H-^- ''.' ^".^ '• "'■ •"'"' "' 'lie"'. of hot medicinnhe external hU/ ^^.'V"*? '^ ^"^^'*''"* 'l"'"'tity the patient's face with a ?fl^n"'* ^^''* '•"^" ''^ ^^''«l»4 eHeJtual, apply a H^^^^^^^ tf'^ 'V'"*'"''', ^'^""''^ *'"« '»« '" subside, ffi natient m^v n^^^ f"'' **'^ faintness will tlu..y min.!J^s,Cr rcfasTm^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ " ^" "'^'^'"^ raised or letdown at nlf.n«n,o-'^ "'^* *'^'^'" '»"y >e the water overrhrcfhtrnlfi.^^ immersing small hot sto.u^s in be ma «iw...i,i K„i:^,.. " IMititnt. Uhen done steaming the patient spirits, vinegar or cold I ■-' ,, , "' im,i,it;iifc. >v nen dr wS ; thKo ^ T''"^ ''^' '^'''^ -hi spints, vine. StVco .lTreLt"tf*'%^'".'' P"'^'^"'*« ^'- ''^-^^^-'^i alx>ve^nanied ot medSie^^ very much. Whei! the ^ in ti.eirp.aces:^S^r^-;ji!;rt-- patient, more ra^ttaTingT^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^»^P"^'» ^ *'- A REGULAR COURSE OF xMEDIClNE. or^'tt:i^'^^^^:Z'^ tl- composition powder, be put in bed with a stoam^" tonelThl.?"?"^' the patient must two more of the hot medid iie • tfZ til Ju""^ '''"'^ ^^^^ ^ ''^^^*^ ''»• repeat as occasion mariSrp'l^!?!^^ '''"'^*^"'' ^''- ' '"'*' als^o assist in keeping ^^^Tpe^sS^nVf""^ ' ^'^'^ ^"^ done operatintf ^ive «n L?ik- ^ i- " ^^"^^ *he emet c is directions ) fvfeen thPv. . J according to directions, ( see fections, or spLisiuThalf nT™' symntoms, or nervous af! eachdos;,LXtoVleinetioi^n^ ""T-' P^^'^*^^' *« vomitinir the natient 1Z\Tm ^vv "^.*.*^""«^'V^t« times of or the iFke. " " ''-nk .mdv poniage, chicken broth, This operation will be sufficient for once and mnv Y^ . , every second, third or fourth day, as «"":."' n"/ rlT.uirrln ... r ll I .v> BOTAffIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. vi«4« «l«tt. ^, wh, eimmeKliate rf He,i i« ijeeded, No's. 1, 2, 3 and 6 ma> *f* giventogvi «r No. 2 and No. Jkuid the compoBitiou are givew to rftise the uiternal heat and bring „. i^BwKi is applied to open the pores and aid ff^ '■' 'ven to remove tlip canker, and heal the atomach and oit a pergpn-ation ; tlie o!> the ixji-Hpiration. Ih gUuht attacks of disease a whole cirtirse of medicine will not be lu . I .iuafi . yo"i judgment must beun ' what medicine to give and how nuioh In all cases of long stamting and severe attackH, a whole course of medicine will be necessary and must i* re- peated as the case may rer/uire. Kk,/kc'tki. Mkuicink am. I'hactick.— The use of those herbs and minerals which possess a poisonous nature, such as ganlen hemlock, ( ciuta ), laurel, swamp dogwiwd, ivy, arsenic, antimony, calomel, opium, and the practice of bleeding, l)li8tering, giving many drastric purges, &c., are rejected by Dr. Tiiomson. 1, i* 3 ami 6 npoHitiun are piratioii; the {KsrHpiratiuii. atoiiiaoli and cine will not Heine to give vere attackn, must he ru- those herhs ih a» garden ic, untiniony, iring, giving ison, INDEX. Anatomy and Physiology Ague, Indian Cure ^^ . •' Asthma . . , Astringents .. ' Anti-fteptics . . Aromatios Alum Root.. Angelica Aven* Root Alder • . •• AjpjviuHx .. " .. Bilious Ewietic..- Biliovis Fevet, or Ran'ittewt " . * * * * gJj^J^^Jy *^ux, or Dysentery .. Bruises .*•*•" Bite of Mad Doi Balsams.. ** Bathinn Bears' Feet Blood Root.. " Burdock Boneset Bog Bean .. " Bath Root . . • Burnet . . Bread and Milk Common Herbs, list of Canada Thistle . . Cancer . . Catnip . . " Chill Fever Colic ■ .. " ,, •• Comfrey Coiisuiaptjon " .. Cougji " Asthmatic .. Cutaneous Knirsfi.^.y.: Cateract Children, Nursing" " . who wet thq bed • • • • • • • . • • • • ■ • • • • • Page. 9 14 .. 22 25 .. 25 32 . . 83 33 .. U 37 >. 40 13 . 14 16 . 24 24 . 24 26 26 31 34 34-.S7 3/5 36 38 39 37 38 CI 37 13 90 37 20 20 21 21 23 24 III ~y2 INDKX. ^ Corns . . . . . • • • • • • • ^* Cuts f^ Cathartics . . . . • . • • • • • • **! Canniuatives .. .. ». •• •• •• •• ^ Cough Powders . . . . . . • « • • • • ^| Canadian Plants ... . . . . . . • • • • • • ''j Crawley, (Jewel Nerve Root ) 31 Comfrey Root . . . . . . . . '^ ColumlJo, American . . ♦ • 3o Diet, articles of .. • ^^ Dietetics, chapter on . . .. .. "^ Disease, definition of . . . . . • • • • • • • '' '' names and Indian remedies |jf Dysentery * ir '' Indian remedy .. .. •• »• ♦• *'^* Diptheria, cure for .. .. •• •• •• •' j'^ Dropsy.. .. .. .. •• •• •• •• '* Dyspepsia .. ,i .. •• •• •• •• *• |^ Deafness .. .. .. •• •• •• ♦• 1** Diarrhcea .... . . . . • • • • * * * * 5« Detergents .. .. .. •• •• ♦« *♦ "j: Diuretics .. .. .. .. •• ♦• ** "ok Draughts .. .. .. •• •• •• •* ^ Dandelion .. .. .. .. •• •• *• •• «; Dwarf Alder . . . . • • • • ^* Electricity.. .. »• •• •• ^: Eyes, Inflammation of .. ^J " Sore.. .. .. .. 21 Emetics .. .. •• •• •• ^^ Emmenagogues .. .. .. .. •• •• •• ^* Expectorants . . . . . . • • • • • • • • ^ Ear, Gathering in ^ Fever, chill or Intermittent . . . . . . • • • • j;^ " Sores.. .. .... -f! Gravel, in bladder • jo " on kidneys .. .... *° Gold Thread *? Gensen .. .. •• ^ Golden Seal • "*° Health, rules for recovery J .. .. .. •♦ •• ^ ► y* definition of .. .. .. •• •• •• .!^ Head, inflammation in «• •• ^ Hvdronhohia .. .. .. •• •• •• •• _. HogTfiistle .. .. •• '^ Hucklel)erry .. .. .. •• ^* Hoarhound.. .. .. .. •• •• •• •• ^^ Hasty Pudding .... .. '* •• "»* ^^ • • 24 • • 24 • « 25 1 t • • 26 • t 31 1 « • • 31 • • 31 » • • • 34 • • 35 ^ • • • 38 « • 5 1 • • • 7 • • 12 V » • 15 «• 15 • • * 15 4 » 17 • • «« 18 « • 19 • • •■ • 20 *« 26 ft. • • • 26 • * 26 »• • •■ 34 » • 34 • • * • 11 • • 21 • • • • 21 26 • • 27 • • 27 • • 29 • • 13 « • • • 24 • « 18 • • 18 33 • • 35 f • 36 6 • • • • • • 6 «• #• 17 • « 24 • • #• 6i »a 34 • t • • 38 «*»* 39 INOKX. gg Intermittent or CJiill Fever Innuinnuitiou, Lungs . . 13 Bowels " ' ' ■ " • • Ifi j^ , " in the head 17 •Itch . . • • • . . . 17 " Omtment.. " •• 21 Injections . . . * ' " ' ' 29 Irritating Plaster 29 Indian Rhubarb 30 Hemp.. •• .. 32 Posey .. <■ ■■ 32 Jaundice, Indian Remedy* " * ^2 Jacob's Ladder ^ • • • • . . . . _ 3.^ King's Kvil . " " • • 30 ^^.^\v:ectiou.!.,^^,gi„^^^^r^ ■■ 24 Mad Dog, Bite of . . ' "' 15 Mucilage, anti-spasmodic " •* •• 24 Motherwort " " " •• •• 31 Mullen . . . . . . 38 Medicines, Terms of Classification ' " J^ Neuralgia . 39 Ointment .. " •• 19 Oils of Animals for Ointment " " " -.27' Piles .. .. 38 Periods, Monthly *' "" '* *• ** •• 22 p ,;: " endof.. •'. *• •• •• •• 22 Poultices . 23 Plaster, strengthening . " 27 " mustard •• ..28 " irritating . . ' " 28 Piles, Ointment for " ' ^'^ 30 Pills, regulating female " ^" " -, . . 29 " bilious .. 30 " emetic .. * 30 " mandrake 30 Pleurisy root 30 Poke root 35 Peppermint •• •. 38 Quinzy . , . . . . 38 Queen of the Meadow " ' " 19 Rheumatism .. '" ** " 35 Rickets _ 19 Rheumatic Salve * 25 Rye Pudding 27 Spice Bush .. 39 Scarlet Fever 38 14 54 INDEX. Spleen, disease of.. .. ^ Sore Eyes 21 Scald Head .. 25 Sores, old, &c .. 27 Salve and Stengthening Plaster .. 27 Salve for fever sore . . 27 Stimulants., .. 28 Styptics Sudorifics . . . . . . 28 .. 28 Syrups 28 Salt Rheum . . . . — .. 29 Snuff, vegetable 31 Spotted Plantain .. 37 Stone Root 37 Skunk Cabbage .. .. 38 Sassafrass 38 Thompsonian Practice of Medicine and Recipes , , Tape- Worms . . ..41-50 18 Tinctures . . .. 29 Tag Alder .^ 36 Vermifuge . . 28 , Vervine, blue and white 35 Vine Maple 36 Whooping Cough 16 Worms . . . .... .. 18 Wens • 19 Women and Children, diseases of .. 22 Whites 23 W hite Swelling .. 24 Wild Turnip 34 Wormwood .. 38 Wormseed 38 Water Soup . . . , .. 39 20 21 25 27 27 27 28 28 28 28 29 31 37 37 38 38 41-50 18 29 36 28 35 36 16 18 19 22 23 24 34 38 38 39 ^"f-. m