RECIPES. 109 
CURE FOR CANCERS. 
Take the salts made of red ash bark by leaching the ashes 
_and boiling it down ; pulverize the salts and spread it on the 
cancer; make a salve of red clover blossoms by boiling them 
down, and spread a plaster on a Jinen cloth, and apply it to 
the cancer; drink a tea made of clover blossoms, freely ; 
simmer fresh butter to an oil and rub the edges of the sore 
with it once a day; ; Squeeze out the juice of garget berries, 
dry it to a salve in the sun, and apply it to the cancer on a 
linen cloth. Continue these — till eured. 
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FOR STONE IN THE BLADDER. 
Make a strong tea of golden rod, without boiling "a pb 
it off, and simmer twenty or thirty honey bees in the tea; 
take one-half gill every two hours. Or make a tea of juni- 
per berries and noble pine, (called by some pipsiseway,) sim- 
mer them together without boiling, put into a quart on ee 
gin, and drink it freely. 
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FOR RHEUMATISM. a 
Take one gill of hog’s lard, beef gall BO one- 
half gill spirits turpentine—simmer them well together, and 
add one gill best French brandy ; bathe the afflicted part at 
night as you go to bed. It is good for bruises and sprains, 
and generally cures in a few days. 
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TO MAKE A POULTICE FOR BRUISES. 
Take spikenard root, pulverized or powdered, and wet with 
good vinegar well tinctured with wormwood and salt, and 
. laid on, will effect a cure on any bruise if put on soon. . — 
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