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jot: boil and strain. Add one fourth of a pound of honey. Take 
- alittle before eating. Cate a aaa = 
_ Or, Take balm of gilead buds, balsam of fir, and half a pint of 
. sunflower seeds. Boil the seeds to half‘a pint, then add the best of 
‘ 
__ gin, one pint, with the rest. Take a little in the morning: 
=< = ‘For a cough—Take six ounces of extract of liquorice, one pint of 
__ white winé vinegar, one ounce of oil of almonds, and one ounce of 
-laudanum. Dissolve the liquorice in the wine, and add the other 
icles. Dose one tea spoonful after eygry coughing. 
__ Wild liquorice, thistle roots, and arch-angel, of each a large hand- 
_ ful; water, three quarts. Steep to three pints, drain off; and add 
__ four ounces of loaf sugar. 
= For Hoarseness.—-T'ake thiee drops of black snake’s oil, or of rat- 
eas esnakes’ oil, at bed time. Also; a syrup made as follows—Seneca 
_ Snake root, one fourth of an ounce ; liquorice root, two ounces ; and 
one large onion, sliced ; simmer in two quarts of water to a pint; | 
strain and add an ounce of loaf sugar. Dose, a table spoonful four 
five times a day. = 
__ Or, skunk cabbage root, or ball, pulverized, and mixed with mo- 
_ lasses or honey. Dose a tea spoonful four or five times a day. — 
____. Or, rub the soles of the feet with garlic and lard, beaten together, 
at night, repeating till cured. ~ = ; 
, take sweet oil, half an ounée at a dose. Rub the chest with 
_Or, a conserve of three parts of green comfrey, and one part of 
_ wild turnip, bruised fine, and mixed with sugar. , 
or 
For rat Astuma. _ 
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ae Vomit, when necessary, with lobelia, or blood root: 
For the spasmodic asthma.— Brown paper, dipped ina strong s0- 
ion of salt petre—dry it, burn, ‘and inhale the fumes when the fit 
is on. : 
Or, which is superior to any thing else Iam acquainted with—stra- 
monium leaves, soaked in a solution of salt-petre, dried and smoked, 
asthe above. This never fails to relieve in a spasm of the asthma. 
. Limewater, a table spoonful three times a day, with from fifteen 
to twenty drops of the tincture of stramonium in each dose. 
Or, Limewater, with wild turnip. , 
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_ The oil or decoction of sunflower seeds is excellen , 
2 Take éne pint of brandy, a ital! handfal fee 8 of blue flag root and : = =e 
cabbage, and one ounce of spirits of turpentine. Mix all 
and, when digested, take three or four table spoon 
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