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mallows and marsh-mallows are different
herbs.
Whortleberries, commonly called huckle¬
berries, 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 di¬
gestive powers out of order.
Blackberries axe 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 ber¬
ries is still better. Blackberries have some¬
times effected a cure when physicians de¬
spaired.
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.
A gentleman in America says 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 piaster of tar. This must
be removed in a few days, and, if any pro