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BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
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‘agrimony, devil's bit, and lungwort, and boil them, for 
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ike half a pound of squaw, or cohush root, six ounces of beech — 
and four ounces of red elm bark : boil in four quarts of rain 
W to two, strain, and dissolve in the decoction two ounces of — 
a nd half an ounce of salt. petre ; to which add half a pint of ~ 
~ honey. This will cure the most inveterate sore throat. | 
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For Putmonary Consumprions. 
_ A Syrup: Take an ounce each of spikenard, cinnamon, Virginia 
__ Smakeroot, and parsley ; two ounces of pleurisy root; and half an 
_ ounce each of cloves and gum myrrh. — Steep the whole three hours 
__ in two quarts of water. Then strain, simmer down toa pint, and add 
_ While warm, one pound of sugar, and a pint of port wine. Bottle it 
Jose, from half to two wine glasses, three times a day, accord- 
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ee ‘life: root, half an ounce, steeped in a quart of water, 
and used for common drink, isa most valuable remedy in beginning 
consumptions. Seer 
___ For night Sweats, in consumption, or if the urine is frothy, give 
_ the elixir of vitriol, ten drops four or five times a day. 
3 Seal doses of wild turnip, in honey, four or five times a day, is 
». Slippery elm bark, soaked in cold water, and sharpened with vine- 
is a good expectorant in consumptive coughs. 
'T, @ conserve of comfrey and wild turnip, in honey. 
The fumes of burning resin and beeswax may be inhaled, repeat- 
ing it three or four times a day. 
Or, drink tar water. ° 
Or, take the yolk of two eggs, a gill of wine, a tea spoonful of tar, 
_ and a table spoonful of honey, beat them together. Dose, a tea 
Spoonful four times a day. : 
s a Pee bleeding at the lungs, give moderately, a tea of sweet bugle, 
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“Send andfal Packsat comfrey, elecampane. 7 hyssop and lungwort : 
boil to two quarts, add'a pound of honey, and simmer to two quarts. — 
Dose, a table spoonful three or four times a day. ae 
Boil out cumeci or hyssop, and one ounce each of wild « 
t and skunk cabbage root, in four quarts of water to two ; : 
