PRESCRIPTIONS.

No. 79.

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For a diarrkcea, or looseness of the belly.

The following has been found peculiarly effi-cacious, when other means have generally failed:

Take the yard or pizzle of a buck (get it savedand dried by a deer hunter) reduce it to powder,put a spoonful of the powder in a bottle with apint of spirits ; take this solution in small quan-tities, every hour, till relief is obtained; sayfrom a teaspoonful to two tablespoonfuls, as thecase may require.

This I remember to have heard, was used incamp, in the old Canada war with the French,when the complaint was very common, and hadcarried off many; but when this was applied, itwas found a speedy and certain cure.

I have known this kept as a family medicine,and given with success to both man and beast.

No. 80.For a stranguary, or depression of vrine.

When a person would make water, but cannot,but with pain and difficulty, from whatever occa-sion, the following may be tried:

Make a tea of the slippery elm, buds or bark,or lyn buds or bark, either may be used; the teamust he plentifully drank and continued till thepatient is well, less or more. Small doses ofnitre and camphor, are the usual remedies; butthe above tea is perhaps preferable, and theothers may be resorted to if it fails.