DOMESTIC PHARMACOPEIA. ‘on 
_ Also, apply a poultice of blood root and beth root, pulverized, "and 
votes with poner Ifthe leg | be swelled, poultice with lipgaty, elm 
For swans and sores.—Take one pound of the juice of e 
green leaves of skunk cabbage; one pound of fresh butter, and half 
a pound of mutton tallow. Put these in an earthen pot and simmer 
two hours. Anoint twice a day. 29 
For contracted tendons.—Anoint with neatsfoot oil, and bind on 
flannels dipt in it while hot. 
_ For the itch.—Sulphur, turpentine and hogs lard. Mix, ae 
‘anoint the soles of the feet, and palms of the hand, and hold to” the 
fire. Take sulphur inwardly. 
For tetters,—Take half a pint of brandy, half a’ sn of. a; anda 
table spoonful of potash. Melt together, and apply with a feather. 
To disperse pain.—Take ground mustard seed, mix with vinegar 
and flour, and apply as a poultice. jee 
Or, take stramonium, boil and strain, add turpentine, and simmer 
toa salve. In fits this may be applied to the pit of the stomach. °g. 
- ‘Take stramonium seeds, and bitter sweet bark. “Boil and si 
add fresh butter, lard, mutton tallow, beeswax ‘and resin. Sir 
‘toa salve. This will be found an excellent salve for common pur- 
poses, on sores. 
To scatter a swelling.—Take a double handful each of worm n wood; : 
rue, camomile, and fever few—-pound is ar and simmer in eee . 
lard over a slow fire. 
For any foul sore.—Take Castile soap, chalk, and Harlem oil.— s 
‘Triturate thein together. Apply. 
_ To cleanse an ulcer.—Fill the sore with wild turnip, pulverized Ee 
Ory: take blood root and mandrake. Mix, and apply. | 
For a drawing poultice. —Take bark of the root of sumach. a 
Or, soft soap, sugar and flour ; mix. ‘This may be ats tices > 
deep matter to the surface. Oy 
For ague in the breast.—Take six or seven ‘lca of strong tee 
bacco, and boil it in two quarts of urine. Strain, and add a quarter 
ofa pound each of beeswax, turpentine and resin. Simmer till it i we 
as thick as wax, and apply to the breast. 
For wounds from nails, &c. —Take bittersweet, dock, plantain, 
stramonium and elder flowers. Boil, 
and beeswax. Sigua’ ona 3 
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yarrow leaves, rose leaves, 
add, beef’s gall, resin, mutton tallow, 
slow fire. } 
A cooling salve, for piles, Ehapped hands, &eilPake green ogs, 
" green of elder, plantain, parsley and scabious. Simmer in fresh ia 
ter, and strain. z : 
= _ For a sore throat.—Take one pint of linseed sil one fourth 0 ar 
und of resin, half a pound of sugar, and half a pound of soap.— : 
t together ; apply externally to a eee 
