RECIPES. 115 
FOR CANKER SORES, © THROAT DISTEMPER, PILES, AND 
: SUMMER COMPLAINT. 
Make a strong tea of wild celandine and red or purple 
succory, sweetened with honey or loaf sugar, and drink it 
freely three or four times a day. Make a tea of sumach 
berries, and sweeten with honey, and wash the outside of the - 
throat and the mouth, and throat inwardly, or make a tea of 
toad plantain, drink it freely, and. bathe the throat outside 
with it. The juice of plantain will cure the bite of a spider 
if used inwardly. Or steep bitter walnut meats in water, © 
and sweeten with loaf sugar—take a tea-spoonful three times _ 
a day. You may chew and swallow the meats. This will. 
cure camer: inwardly or outwardly, and will cure summer — 
faint. It is the best stringent I ever tried for in-— 
ward or onaed piles. If given inwardly, give it after a 
gentle physic, Used inwardly for piles, make a jelly of it. 
and sweeten with loaf sugar, and put it up the rectum with 
a swab. ° 
VEGETABLE ELIXIR... = s—s—iwssss 
Pati in one quart fourth-proof brandy pile ound = 
gum myrrh pulverized, one-fourth ounce cayenne, and shake _ 
them well together one week ; one table-spoonful will gener- 
ally cure pain in the stomach or bowels. Apply it outward- 
ly on the head, snuff it up and hold ‘in the mouth, will cure 
head-ache or tooth-ache. . It will cure cramps, sprains, swelled 
joints, tetter, and warts. 
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POR CORNS. 
aes house leak and bind it on meme it is shaved thin. 
Seldom fails curing. : 
