{52} _For the Gout, or any Ach._
_Spunck_, an excrescence growing out of black Birch, the _Indians_
use it for Touchwood; and therewith they help the _Sciatica_, or Gout
of the Hip, or any great Ach, burning the Patient with it in two or
three places upon the Thigh, and upon certain Veins.[189]