one quart, and add the aloes and assafoetida, and a quart 
Dose, for a child, a tea spoonful every half hour, 
physic ; which will bring away the worms in a slimy mass. 
Healing Wash.—Boil half a pound of witch hazle bark to a de. 
coction of a quart ; and add three or four ounces of “ Turli 8 
balsam of life,’ and (at pleasure) a drachm of white vitriol. ‘Shalke 
them well together. . 
For cleansing and healing excoriated surfaces, and correcting 
_ acrimony and putridity, this issecond to none. It is particularly ser~ 
svar as an injection. in gonorrhea, and as euels sie val 
ulcers, i Be 
The Green Salve.—To three pounds of lard, add a quarter of a 
pound of beeswax ; two ounces of verdigris, finely pulverized ; and 
_ one pound of Seotch snuff. Melt, and stir till cold. 
This is a most excellent salve for cleansing and bringing life and 
action into foul and ugly ulcers. I find great use for it. . 
The Bittersweet Ointm ent. —Take me i of sea leaves 
strain, and make it into an ointment with hogs lard. 
This is a valuable ointment, and is frequently recommended in this 
work. It softens and relieves a caked and inflamed breast in ate: 
_ markable manner, and may be applied with advantage. — 3 
Tron and Myrrh Pills—Take rust of i iron, three parts, and 
myrrh, pulverized, one part. Make into a mass a — gs 
and molasses. 
Dose, two or andes twicea day. They are med for the same Raa 
poses as the tonic tincture. 
Fir Pilis.—Take balsam of fir, and mix in quounw of foxglove, pt 
verized to make it of a proper consistence for 2 
Dose, three or four, twice a day: ‘These ie akohelioa: a 
gleet, and are generally useful in completing the cure of ‘gonorrhea. 
For Epileptic Fits of the Nervous kind. —Take c one ounce each, of 
gum myrrh and flowers of sulphur; half a gill of spirits of turpentine ; 
and one gill of oil of almonds, or of sweet oil. Simmer all together 
- two or the hours, until it becomes red. ‘Then drain the liquid off 
from the sediment, and bottle it up. 
Dose from fifteen to thirty drops twice in assange -four poms, for an | 
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ue 
% Sia’: ants in proportion to children, 
MisceLLANeous PREPARATIONS. © 
Asthmatic Tincture —Take halfa pound of quick lime, slack itby 
_ turning on two quarts of hot water, and while it is slack: 
boiling, stir in two spoonsful of iat aaa wel] 
