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_ pour in cold water. 
The following is useful to apply to ariy part of the body, to ease 
pain, asthma, constriction, &c. ree ss 
~ Take a pound of tobacco, and a handful each, of ‘Spikenard and 
comfrey—boil and strain them. Add two ounces each of resin, tut- 
: peotize, and beeswax, an ounce of camphor, and a small cake of soap. 
_ Simmer on a slow fire till all the liquor is gone, and it begins to foam : 
then stir till cool. — - 
For healing and cleansing—Take bittersweet, plantain, and life 
everlasting. Make an ointment. 
For cleansing—Mandrake root, pulverized, and mixed with tur- 
 pentine, resin, and mutton tallow. This destroys fungous flesh. 
For healing—T'ake plantain, prickly pear, green of elder, slippery 
_ elm, beech drops, bittersweet, yellow dock, comfrey, gravel weed; 
spikenard and pond lily roots. “Boil, and make into salve with eight 
“arts of mutton tallow, one part each of resin and beeswax, and a 
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Porter’s ointment, for limbering stiff joints.—T'ake one handful 
each of rue, sage, wormwood, night shade, life everlasting, green 
cco, and spikenard’; and two handfuls of Porter’s weed. “Put 
them in hogs lard and simmer in brass on hot ashes for seven days, 
_ Excellent for limbering stiff joints. 
For gout, rheumatism, cramps, contractions of the sinews, &c.— 
_ Take a young fat dog, kill him, scald and strip off his hair. Then, 
_ from a small incision, take out the contents of his belly, and put in 
_ the cavity two handfuls.of nettles, two ounces of brimstone, a dozen 
_ of eggs and four ounces of turpentine, well mixed together. Then 
sew up his belly, and roast: hin before a fire, and save the oil.’ THis 
is to be applied to the parts. a ed; warm, and rubbed in by the 
fire 
Or, the dog being prepared inthe same manner, fill his belly with 
_ & pint of red pepper, a pint of fish worms, the bark of sassafras roots, 
_ and three ar four green frogs ; roast him in the same manner, and 
save the drippings. This isa valuable ointment for rheumatisms, | 
contractions of the tendons, nervous affections, burns, &e. 
Take two pounds of tobacco, one pound of resin, one pound of 
urpentine, one pound of lard, and two ounces of beth root. Boil the 
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tobacco and bet 
_ till the water‘is‘evaporated. 
"This salve has bee Vhighly recommen 
‘any part of the body ; and for curing old - 
for relieving pains in 
8, fistulas, cutaneous 
For fetid ulcers on the legs.—Dissolv 
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with this. — 
For a sticking salve—Take three fourths of a pound of resin, and 
“one ounce each of beeswax and. mutton tallow—Melt together, and. 
That these preparations, although singular, are valuable, no one 
and beth root, arid add the other ingredients, simmering them , 
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ate in a pint of fresh lime water. Wash the ulcers twicea 
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