RECIPES. 121 
- FOR CONVULSION 8. 
ia the cold bath; or take a spoonful of valerian root 
powder in a cup of water every evening, one-quarter ounce 
_ to a powder; or one-half drachm of mistletoe, powdered, 
every six hours, drinking after it a draught of a strong infu- 
‘sion thereof. 
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CURE FOR THE ITCH. 
Take one-half pound black pepper, one-half pound ginger, 
one-fourth pound elecampane root, and well pulverize and— 
mix them with oil of turpentine so as to make it moist. 
Rub a little in the palms of ‘your hands 4 and smell of it. 
Follow it up one Wit ss 
SLOW FEVER. 
Use cold bathings two or three weeks daily. 
FOR WORMS. 
Take black or petted alder bark that ier the ed pli, 
ae re tea-spoonful to the child in mo- 
This has cured when the skill of physicians failed. — 
FOR WORMS AND WORM FEVER. 
Make a tea of snake-weed, and give it freely. It will de- 
stroy the worms and cure the fever. This herb appears in 
the latter part of May, and has asmall white blow. Dis- 
appears early in the season. 
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FOR STOPPAGE IN THE HEAD. . ; 
Snuff up 3 juice of primrose and keep the head warm. 
