To provoke Urine.
Their Bones beat to a Powder and drank with convenient Liquors, is a gallant Urin provoking Medicine.
For Wound and Bruise.
An Indian, whose Knee was bruised with a fall, and the Skin and Flesh strip’d down to the middle of the Calf of his Leg; Cured himself with Water Lilly Roots boyled and stamped.[285]
For Swellings of the Foot.
An Indian Webb, her Foot being very much swell’d and inflamed, asswaged the swelling, and took away the inflamation with our Garden or English Patience, the Roots roasted. f. Cataplas. Anno 1670. June 28.
To dissolve a Scirrhous Tumour.
An Indian dissolv’d a Scirrhous Tumour in the Arm and Hip, with a fomentation of Tobacco, applying afterwards the Herb stamp’d betwixt two stones.
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