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346 to be an effectual substitute for sealing-wax, is apparently calculated for many uses. A kind of ozier or willow, which grows in this territory, is deemed by the Indians a specific in complaints of the bowels, and is named by them calenture, because, in employing its decoction in cases of the most violent rheumatic affections, the patient is subjected for three or four hours to a violent fever, which, terminating in a copious perspiration, leaves him free from every ailment. The few trials of this remedy which have been made, have been extremely successful against siphylis; and if the practical inquiries that have been recently instituted should correspond with them, cures may be effected by the means of one of the most surprizing simples for which medicine is indebted to the American continent. The production of a worm, which the Indians name sustillo, and by which a paper, very similar to that made in China, is fabricated, has been hitherto unknown to all the naturalists. Lastly, Bezares discovered that which has,