112 = = RECIPES. 
FOR KING'S EVIL. 
Take king’s evil plant, root and branch, pound it, and ap- 
ply it to the tumor.as a poultice or salve. If the tumor is 
broken open, simmer the root and leaf in sweet oil and mut- 
ton tallow, add to it beeswax and rosin until hard enough for 
 agalve ; wash the sore with the liquor made of the herb, and 
apply the salve thoroughly, and it will not fail to cure. 
FOR FELLONS. 
Take blue flag and wild turnip roots, two ounces each, stew 
them in one-half pint of hog’s lard, add two ounces of tar, 
and simmer them together, and apply this ointment to the 
fellon till it breaks—then after it breaks add beeswax and 
rosin to the ointment for a salve to dress it after it is broken ; 
or poultice it with roasted once shifting the poultice every 
hour till ‘broken. 
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FOR SCURVY IN THE GUMS AND TEETH. 
Gargle and wash the mouth, gums and teeth withsalt 
water ; or take four ounces of cream of tartar, four ounces of 
prepared chalk, one drachm of soda, one ounce of loaf sugar, 
and pulverize all together and rub the gums and teeth. 
FOR GOUT IN” THE FOOT OR HEAD. 
~ iets a raw, Jean beef steak, and change it once in twelve 
hours till cured. 
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TO STOP BLEEDING. 
The juice of green savin ; nettles, or pulverized alum and 
sage: all are good to stop blood. Burnt alum will eat out 
, proud flesh. 
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