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oils affections add half a tea-spoonful of nerve 

 powder. For the externel effects of poison, 

 take the above dose, and bathe the parts affected 

 with the tincture, repeating it till cured. To 

 one gill of this tincture add one tea-spoonful of 

 wild ipecac finely pow^dered. 



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the seeds to a fine powder in a mortar and take 

 half an ounce of it, or about a large spoonful, 

 with the same quantity of No. 2, ma>le fine and 

 pwt them in a gill of No. 6, addirtg a tea-spoon- 

 ful of nerve powder; and half a tea-s{X>onful oi 

 ipecac, to be kept close stopped fur use, in a bot- 

 tle. This preparation is intended for the most 

 violent attacks of disease, such as lockjaw, hy- 

 drophobia, drowned persons, fits, spasms, 

 in all cases of suspended animation, where- the 

 rital spark is nearly extinct. It will go through 

 the whole system like electricity, giving heat an<i 

 Ufa to every part. ' In cases where the spasms 

 are so violent that they are stiff, and the jaws be- 

 come set, by pouring some of this iiqiiid into tlie 

 mouth between the teeth and cheek, so soon as it 

 touches the glands at the roots of the tongue the 

 spasms will relax, and the jaws will become 

 loosened so that the mouth will open; then giv 

 a dose of it, and afterwards give a tea of No- 3. 

 for canker.' This course I never knew to fail ot 

 ;givli)5 relief. It is good in less violent ca^es. 





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