White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-17
Msrfal aud Curious.
SASSAFRAS OlL-ITS WONDEREUL Gu
RATIVE PROPERTIES.

MONROE COUNTY, ND, May 2s.I have now
attained to upward of seventy-five years of age.
For nearly sixty years have been trying to find
out the use of various things which God has placed
tions have made what consider some very i'm
p0rtaDt discoveries.
There is certain vegetable oil, viz, oil Of sas-
safras, which very few Of the medical faculty ever
use, that possesses such extraordinary virtues as
would cause it to save many lives II 1t vas more
GENERALLY used.
1t makes difference how little and simple
thing is, if il be the means of saving life, the
| fact should he made known.
| No doubt some will be ready to discredit the
virtues which 1 claim this oil possesses. And
they will he ready to exclaim as it possible that
one medicine can many diseases, and, at
the same time. the physicians never use itT
have nevertheless, used this one medicine in Gu
ring the various diseases herein named. Indeed,
/ have cured many persons that had previously
been to the best doctors that the country afforded
The way Iprepare this oil is as follows: select
large sassafras tree can find, which Is dead
but the wood still sound. This wood / cut and
split, and have of such lengths as to go in end
foremost into kettle, and not project above the
top of the kettle. When have thus crowded in
as much of the wood as possible turn the kettle
bottom side up, placing il on fat rock that is
little slanting. 1now apply clay daub all around
where the kettle rests on the rock, excepting
small place on the lower side where the oil is to
run out On either side of this part of the large
fiat rock pnt two other smaller rocks; and fiat
rock of the right size to rest on these two rocks.
These are also daubetl with clay. In this way the
oil can run off without taking fire and burning.
slow fire is then built on and over the inverted
kettle, increasing it gradually until the wood is
all charred. As the oil runs out a vessel, of course,
must be ready to receive it. After the oil has re-
NAMED fifteen minutes in the vessel, pour the
sence off, but he careful and save it.
For some years l was in the habit of throwing
the essence away, not knowing that there was any
virtue in it. At that time made the oil under
the directions of my father, who used it to doctor
horses with.
now will speak of its uses in the cure of vari-
GUS ailments of man. was afflicted with scurvy
on the teeth. And while making this oil at one
time, tasted it and it got ON to my teeth, which
frightened NE very much, as thought it would
eat all my teeth out. But it only took the scurf
off. BY this means learned how to cure scurvy.
And now, thinking that gravel was very much of
the same nature, concluded to test it in the cure
of that disease. On trying it, l found that it
would cut and dissolve it in forty-eight hours.
In its use for fifty years, have never known it to
fail. The oil, being first made milk warm is in
troduced into the bladder by means of a catheter.
large spoonful thus used once day, OF teaspoon
full internally three times day.
have used this oil medicine for sixty years,
and have derived 80 much profit i'm its use and
in its sale, that have accumulated enough to
support me the balance of my days. am willing,
therefore, to make known to the world my
method Of preparing the medicine, and how adj
minister it.
For cholera, give teaspOOnful every two
hours; for modification, use it in the form Of
plaster; in of salvation, wash with q swab,
or take Tablespoonful and wash round and round,
and then swallow it: in eases of palsy spinal
affection, apply it in the form of plaster on the
spine; for rheumatism, lame back neuralgia, |
rub it on; to destroy tape worm, swallow a tea
spoonful three times day; for erysipelas and
dphtheria. rub the parts and take it internally;
for bOts i'm horses rive three tallesuOOnfls once n