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to the consumption of four. . 
Rub the pained parts twice a day, for ten minutes each time, \ with 
the following ointment : boil two handfuls of the leaves of skunk cab- 
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“vite, three ounces of prince’s pine, and two onnees of wintergreen : 
_ boil in five gallons of water to one gallon. Strain, and add three 
_ pounds of sugar. Dose, a wine glassful three times: a day. 
Take one ounce of seneca snake root; two ounces of white pine 
bark ; two ounces of burdock seed ; an ounce and a half of prickly 
ash bark : boil all in four quarts of water, to three, and take half a 
‘pint, morning and eveni 
This ee ae Wilke found to possess great efficacy. 
€ y, sulphur and hops, for a drink ; and cider 
ee and ayenne pepper, for a wash. This has, given 
immediate relief in the most inveterate cases of chronic rheumatism, 
lumbago, and hip 
Or, take sulphur Hee honey. 
Or, essence of hemlock, twenty or thirty drops at a dose, in five: 
‘leaf tea. 
r, boil nettles soft—foment with the liquor and — the herbs 
asa poultice. . 
For a plaster—Take laudanum, white turpentine, cuetmaker’ Ss 
wax, a beef’s gall, and. camphor. Digest in spirits enough to cover 
them, in an earthen pot, covered, till it is thick and eee ag 
a plaster to the pained part. 
"Take linseed oil, and fish worms, a good eite—-Bien them till 
Bch crisp. Apply the liquor. It is powerful. 
Put four ounces each of unicorn root, prickly ask bark, and: blood — 
root, bruised, into four quarts of old Jamaica rum, and let it. oe 
_ by the fire in a jug, for a week, shaking it frequently. Does 
spoonful three times a day, increasing to a wine glassful, as 1S | 
_ tent can bear it, 
Also, drink four times a day, a decoction of # 
prickly. ash bark, two ounces of toothach bark, one ounce of bitter- 
sweet, and four ounces of squaw root ; boiled in eight quarts. gt water, Be 
“page and arsesmart, each, in two poutids of hogg lard, until the 
leaves crisp ; then strain the ointment, while hot, and add one ounce 
of fine powdered roll brimstone. Apply this, and cover the parts 
For Scroruza, or Kina’s Evie. 
_ Frostweed, ‘or scabious, drank daily, in deeoetion, and i sen ’ al 
a poultice, has cured ‘numbers i in this city. 
Btn lily root and prickly pear, i | 
beeswax, for a salve. Sa 
alae drink, for six weeks, half a pint per Bre of decoction of Bd a 
Bit. 0 Or, the same quantity of = ivy, 
