knows, of course, that
English-mallows and marsh-mallows are different herbs.]

Whortleberries, commonly called huckleberries, dried, are a useful
medicine for children. Made into tea, and sweetened with molasses,
they are very beneficial, when the system is in a restricted state,
and the digestive powers out of order.

Blackberries are extremely useful in cases of dysentery. To eat
the berries is very healthy; tea made of the roots and leaves
is beneficial; and a syrup made of the berries is still better.
Blackberries have sometimes effected a cure when physicians despaired.

Loaf sugar and brandy relieves a sore throat; when very bad, it is
good to inhale the steam of scalding hot vinegar through the tube of
a tunnel. This should be tried carefully at first, lest the throat be
scalded. For children, it should be allowed to cool a little.

A stocking bound on warm from the foot, at night, is good for the sore
throat.

An ointment made from the common ground-worms, which boys dig to bait
fishes, rubbed on with the hand, is said to be excellent, when the
sinews are drawn up by any disease or accident.

A gentleman in Missouri advertises that he had an inveterate cancer
upon his nose cured by a strong potash made of the lye of the ashes of
red oak bark, boiled down to the consistence of molasses. The cancer
was covered with this, and, about an hour after, covered with a
plaster of tar. This must be removed in a few days, and, if any
protuberances remain in the wound, apply more potash to them, and the
plaster again, until they entirely disappear: after which heal the
wound with any common soothing salve. I never knew this to be tried.

If a wound bleeds very fast, and there is no physician at hand, cover
it with the scrapings of sole-leather, scraped like coarse lint. This
stops blood very soon. Always have vinegar, camphor, hartshorn, or
something of that kind, in readiness, as the sudden stoppage of blood
almost always makes a person faint.

Balm-of-Gilead buds bottled up in N.E. rum, make the best cure in the
world for fresh cuts and wounds. Every family should have a bottle of
it. The buds should be gathered in a peculiar state; just when they
are well swelled, ready to burst into leaves, and well covered with
gum. They last but two or three days in this state.

Plantain and house-leek, boiled in cream, and strained before it is
put away to cool, makes a very cooling, soothing ointment. Plantain
leaves laid