Take Siesherk obthe bayberry ah ; Z : = 
the decoction, and apply the green leaves. Drink ba berry 
stantly, a cupful four times a day. 7 ae 
Or, drink a tea of the scrofula plant, and apply a poultice ° 
same. o ie 
pint. Grind the lime with the bark and root in'a mortar, adding the 
‘water by degrees : let it stand six hours, strain off, and give two ta- 
ble spoonsful every third hour, with as much sweet milk. 
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cream, and apply it as a poultice every night at bed time. If the 
tumor breaks, dress it with a strong decoction of wild cherry bark 
~ in lime water, applied with lint, and covered with a plaster to exclude 
the air. 
For Cancers. 
For a salve.—Press the juice out of poke berries, and set it in the 
sun till it is evaporated toa salve. Apply. — = 
Or, take the juice of sheep sorrel, and evaporate in the same man- 
_ hertoasalve. Apply to the cancer. _ 
Or, take sheep sorrel, poke leaves, and yellow dock : express the 
Juice and dry in the sun, fora salve. | sii 
Or, make a poultice of poke berries, pigweed and green of elder. 
Ay red onion juice. 
Or, take Indian turnip, pulverized, to make a poultice. 
“an ‘roots of poke weed—simmer on hot ashes in an earthen pot for 
 ashort time ; then mix witha pound of fresh butter. Burn it in a 
~ frying pan, and stir in half a pint of finely pulverized gunpowder and. 
_ keep it over the fire till it flashes once or twice ; then set it on hot 
ashes in a pipkin till it is well incorporated, when it may be putin 
pots, and covered with alcohol to prevent its moulding. - 
This ointment, applied twice a day will kill the roots of a cancer. 
For a stone cancer.—Take the powder of dry yellow dock root, 
wet with port wine, and apply it to the 
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black alder, each a handful, boiled in four quarts of water to two. 
Por Drawing Cancer Plasters,—The lead plaster.—Take half a 
pint of olive oil ; two ounces of Castile -soap, shaved fine : put th 
ash ghethenceeeel ore See eae 
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~ Take Peruvian bark in bosses powder, and seneca sikp.conol . 
each two drachms ; unslacked lime, four ounces ; boiling water, one _ 
When scrofulous tumors are recent, apply ‘tincture of cantharides: 
with soft linen, so as not to raise blisters. Ifthis does not soften or _ 
discuss the tumor, pound garlic to a soft pulp, add a few drops of — 
i cea plaster of alum, vinegar, and honey, equal parts, in 
| “ys uncer Ointment.—Take a pint of juice of the leaves 
cancer, renewing it three — 
times a day. 7 ee 
~ Make o diily fink of a decoction of yellow dock; atid of = 
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