The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. / By Pierpont F. Bowker.

  • Bowker, Pierpont F.
Date:
1851
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. / By Pierpont F. Bowker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cough, or phthisic 1 Cough, or pain in the hreast 10 • Common cough - — . 24 Catarrh in the head. 25 Children not holding urine 50 Canker rash 51 Cough with much phlegm — 62 Cure for the dysentery — 82 Convulsion fits 101 Consumption .107 Canker 109 Cramp in the stomach 132 Cure for gravel 133 Cure for yellow jaundice 147 Cancers 162, 163 Deafness, singing in the ear, &c 5 Dropsy, cure for 18 Dysentery in its worst form 36 Excellent family pill 80 Excellent wash for all kinds of fretting sores 149 Excellent drink for a di-y cough, wheezing, and short- ness of breath 152 Elongation of palate and distention of other parts con- nected 159 Eye wash 176 For the rheumatism 16 Frost bitten feet 44 For weak nerves 79 Fora felon 115 For a cancer 116 J’or ahum 122 Fresh wounds, to stop blood from *129 Film from the eye 143 Gravel 33 Green wound salve Ill Good salve for ladies’ sore breasts 141 Hemorrhage 52 Heartburn i 60