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Another —Take sweet oil, one pint; raw flaxseed oil, half a pint ; 
2 s, or honey, half a pint ; spirits of turpentine and balsam of 
fir, each an ounce; liquorice extract, half an ounce ; simmer the 
- whole until mixed: Dose, from ten to sixty drops, twice or thrice a 
day, for colds, coughs, and consumptions. 
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= Rheumatic Drops.—Take one table spoonful of pulverized man- 
_ drake root; one table spoonful of black cohush ; and a large hand- 
__ ful of pipsissawa, or prince’s pine. Infuse themin one quart of wine. 
_ Dose, from one to four tea spoonsful three or four times a day. Use- 
in chronic rheumatism, gout, &c. 
_ Anti-spasmodic Tincture -—Take the leaves of stramonium and 
_ dobelia, of each two ounces ; pleurisy root, two ounces; valerian, 
Masterwort, angelica, castor, and opium, each one ounce; all broken 
_ and put into.an earthen vessel, with two quarts of alcohol and half a~ 
_ Pint of the juice of roasted onions; to which add one fourth of an 
unce of Cayenne pepper.—Keep in sand heat for thirty six hours ; 
“press, sttain, and bottle up for use. Dose, from thirty to sixty 
it may be taken in hot water, and sweetened, or on sugar. 
. e of cramps or s ,» the dose must be repeated every fif- 
_, teen minutes until it gives relief; or, in whooping cough, from ten 
__ to thirty drops once in half an hour until it nauseates or vomits. In. 
_ ¢foup it is to be taken in the same way. In asthma, give from forty 
___ to sixty drops, and repeat until it gives relief ; also in lockjaw. Per- 
sons who are subject to cramp and convulsive fits, may take thirty © 
ops, three times a day, and increase the dose one drop every day. 
It is a quite certain remedy in all spasmodic diseases. 
For Dropsy.—Take gentian roots, four ounces ; elecampane, - 
eight ounces ; sassafras, bark of the root, one pound ; sarsaparilla, 
~ two pounds... Boil the whole in two gallons of water, till one half is 
se, a wine glassful four or five times a day. 
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Lar Syrup.—Take one gill of tar, one pint of wheat bran, half a 
_ pound of Joaf sugar, and two quarts of water ; stir them well together, 
nd then let it stand thirty six hours ; strain off, and add one quart 
flime water. Dose, a wine glassful three times a day. This is an 
event remedy for coughs, consumptions, bet, oe 
Common Gargle.—Take the flowers of life everlasting, or Indian 
Posey; sage, and golden seal, or gold thread ; makea tea, and sweeten 
- Withhoney. Very useful for a sore mouth, sore throat,&c. st 
Jr, chew. the blossoms of Indian posey, and swallow the juice, 
which wall be found of great benefit in quinsy, sore throat, &c. 
argle for Canker in the 
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