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of boiling water, steej» it for several hours on hot 

 embers; pour it off; acid half a gallon more of 

 boiling water and steep as before; then strain 

 through a thick cloth, or first let it settle and 

 pour it off; add one gallon of sugar house mo- 

 lasses. To the whole add one gallon* of West 

 India rum, in which three ounces of cayenne, 

 and two ounces of cloves, have been tinctured 

 for ten days. Then add one sallon of No. 6. 



'> 



b 



or three 



eggs and mix well with half a pint of the syrup; 

 then mix the whole together; putitovera coal fire; 

 as it comes to a sclad, carefully skim off the filth 

 as it rises on the top, and boftle the remainder 

 for use. This makes a very pure and valuable 

 cholera syrup, and the spirit being heated 

 over a fire, becomes somewhat reduced, and it is 

 an excellent preparation for the summer com- 

 plaint of the bowels of children, called Cholera 

 Infantum. Adults may take a table spoonful at 

 a time, and repeat at discretion,~as in the use of 

 common cholera syrup. It admirably relieves 

 colic pains. Children may take one, two, ar 



of 



a 



and 



BAYBERRY AND NO. 6. 



An infusion of the powder of the bark of the 

 ot of bayberry^ made strong in boiling water. 



