_ BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
eiasted ounces of red lead, and two ounces of white lead, pulverized 
fine. Stir the whole till it becomes the consistence of salve. 
' ~ Additions as occasion requires—from one to eight drachms of cor- 
_- rosive sublimate to an ounce of the salve ; making four drachms the 
medium. 
j Or, add the same quantity of white vitriol. 
"Or, the same quantity of verdigris. 
Another. —Take one gallon of urine, and two pounds of oak bark ; 
“een td bark in the urine, till it is reduced te two quarts ; then 
_. strain, and add—wheat flour, first made into a paste, half a pound ; 
_ honey one pound ; white turpentine, a pound anda half. Simmerto a 
tne Add to this, white vitriol, pulverized, more or less, according 
as the strength that is required. Change it twice a day. 
- _ This plaster is said to draw out cancers as effectually, as any of 
the cancer plasters in use, and with far less pain. 
_ For a plaster.—Mix soap, sic root, pulverized, and linseed tee 
se proper consistence. 
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_ Cancer ro root and balm of zicedl buds, bruised opel for a cata- 
_ Take a table spoonful of sweet oil twice a day, anda tea ppeoniyh ; 
of balm of gilead buds twice a day. 
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eS . For Sarr Rugum. 
“Take wild cherry bark, tag alder, and green of elder—boil and add 
salt petre, the size of a walnut to a quart. Take one spoonful, 
Morning and evening. 
| : ibe tea spoonful of tat poe in a ea — water as a 
Seta se 
Boil one poend of plaintain i in two quarts of beef anh cag one or 
urine, foran hour. Wash. 
_ Or, spirits of turpentine. “Anoint. 
Or, take half a pound each of tar and lard. Simmer in spring” 
water, for an ointment. 
Or, marrow of beef bones, black ‘Pepper, turpentine, and. brim 
= stone.—Make an ointment. — 
_ Take half a pound each of elder bark, yellow dock root, burdock: 
‘root, tag alder bark, and ligaum vite ; and one fourth of a ‘pound. of. 
ecoregion ‘Make a syrup. 
es ea decoction of mullein, elder, gill-go-by-the-ground, milk- 
weed, pond lilly, and rose willow, for drink. eee 
7 Or, Castile soap and Madeira wine—make a suds, and drinkes 
Ele wash. < 
Or, a table spoonful o ‘salt petre, dissolved in a quart of’ water.—. 
oS Dose, a table spoonful twice or thricea day. Wash with the same. 
__ For cleansing the blood.—Take a handful each of pleurisy root, 
rose willow bark, spicewood bark, dock root, plantain root, dan-. 
n root, sao comfrey, and burdock ; and a little calamus, 
