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tea spoonful in hot water, sweetened; or the same 

 quantity should be put into a dose of either of 

 the other medicines, and also in the injections in 

 all nervous cases. 



• COMPOSITION OR VEGETABLE POWDER. 



Take two pounds of the bayberry root bark, 

 one pound of the inner bark of hemlock, one 

 pound of ginger, two ounces of sweat weed, the 

 leaves; two ounces of cayenne, two ounces of 

 cloves, all pounded fine, sifted through a fine 

 sieve, and well mixed together. For a dose take 

 a tea spoonful of this powder, with an equal 

 quantity of suga--, and put to it half a tea cupful 

 of boiling water; to be taken as soon as suffi- 

 ciently cool, the patient being in bed, or by the 

 fire, covered with a blanket. This composition 

 is calculated for the first stages, and in less vio- 

 lent attacks of disease. It is a medicine of much 

 value, and may be safely used in all complaints 

 of male or female, and for children. It is good 

 for relax, dysentary, pain in the stomach and 

 bowels, and to remove all obstructions caused 

 by cold, or loss of inward heat. By taking a 

 dose on going to bed, and putting a hot stone at 

 the feet, wrapped in wet cloths, it will cure a 

 bad cold, and will generally throw off a disease 

 in its first stages, if repeated two or three times. 

 If the symptoms- are violent, with much pain, 



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