Made into tea, and sweetened with molasses,
they are very beneficial, when the system is in a restricted state,
and the digestive powers out of order.
Blackberries are 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 berries is still better.
Blackberries have sometimes effected a cure when physicians despaired.
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.
An ointment made from the common ground-worms, which boys dig to bait
fishes, rubbed on with the hand, is said to be excellent, when the
sinews are drawn up by any disease or accident.
A gentleman in Missouri advertises 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.
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