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take pearl ash, the sige of a kernel of corn, dissolve in cider and 
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Or, put a tea spoonful of ginger and atable spoonful of magnesia 
in bail pint of cold water, and drink, 
S>Fora snuff—Coltsfoot, pulverized ; mix half and half with Scotch 
_ Cephalic snuff.—Take roots of daisies, yarrow, and white helle- 
bore; coltsfoot leaves, and bayberry bark, each one ounce, finely 
pulverized and sifted. Mix well, and drop one drachm of essence 
of bergamot in it; then bottle up. Take a small pinch at bed time. 
For rue Toornacn. 
sf Chew the xanthoxylum, or toothach bark; a piece the size of the 
er nail is sufficient at a time. Repeat till the painceases. This 
= is as effectual as any thing of the stimulating kind. 2 
douloureux, pain, or rheumatism in the upper jaw 2 
spownene;-anplied 
and face, roasted fresh” ‘hot, very frequently gives 
relief. ae 
Opium, camphor, oil of cloves, or oil of peppermint, a pill or drop 
placed in the tooth, will sometimes relieve. 
Or, smoke stramonium seeds, or leaves, in a pipe, 
Por Diarrua@a anp .DysenTErY, 
.» fake rhubarb one scruple ; toasted nutmeg fifteen grains; pearl 
ash, ten grains; syrup of orange peel, enough for a bolus. Take 
Or, whiell is excellent, a decoction of witchhazle bark drank freely, 
with boiled milk and sugar. 
Or, gizzard skins, dried and pulverized, a half tea spoonful four 
or five times a day. This is not outdone by any other remedy. 
For Dysentery—Parched or roasted corn, pulyerized, and boiled 
jn milk, fifteen or twenty minutes. A gill may be eaten every hour. 
Place a quantity of peach or cherry bark, and sugar, on a net or 
_ grating in the top of a -proper vessel, with a quantitiy of brandy in 
the bottom of it. Set the brandy on fire, and let the blaze act on 
_ the sugar and bark till the sugar is melted down and the bark con- 
sumed, forming a syrup in the bottom of the vessel. A table spoon: > 
ful or more of this may be taken several times a day, in obstinate 
dysenteries, and is‘eonsidered almost a specific cure. 
In severe cases of bilious diarrhea, twenty grains of salt petre, __ 
_ @rabout the size of a common bean, may be dissolved ina gillof 
, and a tea spoonful taken every hour, till the disease is 
have seen this give relief in the last extremity. 
