- - BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
~ Brown sugar and pulverized oyster shells, mixed in a cataplasm. 
~ Tobacco ashes and palm oil : an ointment. 
ge over the steam of a strong decoction of oak bark, is of 
great benefit. : 
For Fistula and Pilese—T'ake the expressed juice of skunk edie, 
one pound, fresh butter, one pound, and mutton tallow, half a pound : 
simmer for two hours, and then press out the ointment for use.— 
: Anoint the part twice a day for ten minutes. 
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ae with these applications, internal remedies must not be neg- 
ted. 
Internal remedy for fistula and piles—Take sulphur and elecam- 
= "pane, each one ounce; fennel seeds, half an ounce ; black pepper, 
_ or tincture of xanthoxylum,, two drachms; and balsam copaiva, 
. with honey, enough for an electuary. Dose, the size of a walnut, 
#wice or thrice a day. 
Pu _____ For Dianeres. . 
Take half an ounce of pulverized kino, and two ounces of opium. 
Infuse in a quart of spirits, and shake them together for a week.— 
Dose, from fifteen to thirty drops, twice or thrice a day. ro 
- Tincture of cantharides—let it be taken daily till a slight degree 
tt irritation is perceived in the kidneys and urinary passages: then 
_ desist for a time, and again repeat, till cured. 
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__ Prince's pine, gravel weed = ere in decoction. Drink 
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Take a goat’s horn, a put it so near the is as to raise blisters? 
scrape them off, and raise more, till the horn is used up. Pulverize 
this substance fine, and give in doses ofa a tea spoonful twice a day 
in cold water. 
i For FLATULENCY, Wm € Coxe, &e. 
Sbacive the cause, whether it be acidity, debility, or coldness in 
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or present give first of all, the ple root, in powder, 
tea spoonful at a dose, repeating every c ple :00, Es 
Or, take two parts each of angelica and pleurisy roat, and one pats 
of sweet flag, and infuse in brandy for a bitter. : 
oF bayberry bark, two © ounces ; grains of paradise, one ‘ounce ; 
a in a int 
its, and take a table apoontt three times a day, well. 3 
of peppermint a large _ = give taumediate relief. 
Or, caraway , three drachms at a d 
ixir vitriol is of great service in fatuient ¢ complaints. 
1 common pains and disorders of the epaclt se almost we 
