For White Swellings
From The botanic physician, or, Family medical adviser (1837).
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From The botanic physician, or, Family medical adviser (1837), printed page 387, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/2545046R.nlm.nih.gov
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Ingredients
- 4 oz. White pine
- 8 oz. Persimmon
- 6 oz. Sour dock roots
- 6 oz. Elder
- 6 oz. Dewberry brier roots
- 4 oz. Red oak
- 4 oz. Take all these articles
Method
- Take of, Water oak, inner bark, 4 oz.
- White pine, inner bark, 8 oz.
- Persimmon, inner bark, 6 oz.
- Sour dock roots, 6 oz.
- Elder, bark of the roots, 6 oz.
- Dewberry brier roots, 4 oz.
- Red oak, inner bark, 4 oz.
- Take all these articles in a green state, bruise them well, and boil them in water until the strength is extract- td;
- then strain.and^boil down slowly to the consistence of tar.
- This-makes a salve both cleansing and healing, , : or cancers, ulcers, sore legs, white swellings, catarrhs, kc.
- If the ulcer to which you wishto apply this salve be hollow, dilute a little of it with water, and syringe ;2ioit, and also apply a plaster of it externally.— [R.
- C.J