RECIPES. 119 
FOR DECLINING OF HEALTH __ 
Take six drops of Riga balsam, and as you continue enlarge 
the dose till you can take a tea-spoonful ; then make a strong 
bitter of white cohosh roots, Indian root, and sweet alder- 
berries, equal parts, and put them in rum, equal parts, and 
sweeten with molasses, and- take it morning and be tt 
Take the balsam befote you take the bitters. = 
RHEUMATIC SALVE. 
Take one-half pound mutton tallow, one-half pound rosin, 
one-half Jpound ; beeswax, melt, and stir them | well fogettt, 
FOR CONSUMPTION. 
_ Gold bathings have cured many deep consumptions, and 
drink nothing but water and eat nothing but water gruel, 
with a little salt and TT. a, a BREET io. 
a oonrivikD FEVER. 
Take a drachm of saltpetre in water every four hours for 
twelve hours,.then take a dose of the Reformed Botanic and 
Indian Physic. This will break all fevers. 
QUINSY. 
Take one ounce sweet oil, one-half ounce of spirits harts- 
horn, one-half gill alcoliol, one-eighth ounce camphor gum, 
bathe with it, and wet a cloth and lay it on the throat. 
