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7a In Chapter VI. Medicine & Hygene. Insert at the end of the list of medical herbs, the following, to wit: "Yarrow" , "Achillea Millefolium", L. used as a tea for a tonic and bitters? "Wild Sage" or "Antemonia" Indian Tobacco (falsely so called), used as a tea "White Aster", used as a wash for the head to exterminate vermin "Golden Rod" "Solodago verna" a tonic tea. "Na-bag-ashh". "Flat bladed grass". The root is milk white, and is pounded up and put in the cavity of a tooth to cure tooth ache. It is a powerful remedy and will rot the tooth it is said. "Sa. ga ji we gi aie" "Rising Sun", was cured of the tooth ache by "? Wild ue osung?". The Chief Medicine Man. Rising Sun presented him with some cloth, then the Medicine Man got out the drum and beat it, and made sundry grunts. Then took the dried tongue of a wood pecker, and, poked it up in the hollow of the root of the tooth, and pulled out a little red worm?, put in some of the medicine and kept the indian in the house for three days when the tooth was cured.