Calomel or quinine are the only medicines I remember taking myself or giving to my child.
But to go back a little.

The seventh day after the birth of the baby, a delegation of several squaws, wives of chiefs, came to pay me a formal visit.

They brought me some finely woven baskets, and a beautiful pappoose-basket or cradle, such as they carry their own babies in.

This was made of the lightest wood, and covered with the finest skin of fawn, tanned with birch bark by their own hands, and embroidered in blue beads; it was their best work.

I admired it, and tried to express to them my thanks.