120 RECIPES. . 
FITS OR CONVULSIONS IN CHILDREN. 
Put them in a warm bath of salt and water for fifteen or 
twenty minutes, then put mustard plasters on the feet, and 
wet a cloth of four or five thicknesses with the Pain Ex-. 
tractor and lay it on the crown of the head, and if the fit is 
caused by eating, give small doses of the Reformed Botanic 
and Indian Physic, from a tea-spoonful to a table-spoonful, 
every two hours till it operates, then give ten, fifteen or 
twenty drops of the Slumbering Drops. 
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A BURNING FEVER. 
Pound a handful of honey suckle leaves and put it in wa- 
ter, and use it cold as a clyster: cures in one hour; or wet 
the wrists and hands with India molasses and cover them 
with brown paper, and drink lemon juice mixed with water 
and sugar ; use all kinds of cold, sour drink and food tinc- 
tured with nitre. 
COLIC FROM THE FUMES OF WHITE AND RED LEAD. 
In the fit, drink fresh butter melted, and vomit with warm 
water ; or give injection of oi] or fat, warm. To prevent or 
cure, breakfast daily on fat broth, and use oil of sweet al- 
monds frequently and freely. 
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A HECTIC FEVER. 
Drink water gruel or boiled milk and water—drink freely 
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CONVULSIONS IN CHILDREN. 
Scrape Peony roots, fresh dug, and apply it to he soles of 
the feet; it helps immediately. 
