Note, You must make a large Toast, or Cake slit and dip it in the Tar, and bind it warm to the Side.
The most common Diseases in New England.
The Black Pox, the Spotted Feaver, the Griping of the Guts, the Dropsie, and the Sciatica, are the killing Diseases in New-England.
The Larch Tree, which is the only Tree of all the Pines, that sheds his Leaves before Winter; The other remaining Green all the Year: This is the Tree from which we gather that useful purging excrense, Agarick.[221]
For Wounds and Cuts.
The Leaves and Gum are both very good to heal Wounds and Cuts.
For Wounds with Bruises.
I cured once a desperate Bruise with a Cut upon the Knee Pan, with an Ungent made with the Leaves of the Larch Tree, and Hogs Grease, but the Gum is best.
Spruce is a goodly Tree, of which they make Masts for Ships, and Sail Yards: It is generally conceived by those that have {64} skill in Building of Ships, that here is absolutely the best Trees in the World, many of them being three Fathom about, and of great length.[222]
An Achariston for the Scurvy.