122 : RECIPES. = 
FOR FEVER AND: AGUE. 
Go into a cold bath just before the cold fit. Or take one- 
fourth pound ragwort and pound it fine, and put it in a pa- 
per four or five inches square, prick it full of holes, and lay it 
on the pit of the stomach with the holes next to the skin; 
renew it two hours before the fit. Or apply four 
ounces yarrow in like manner. Or a large onion slit. Or 
boil yarrow in new milk until it is tender enough to spread 
as a plaster, apply this to the breasts one hour before the 
cold fit, and let it be on until the hot fit is over. If another 
fit comes on, use a fresh plaster. This often cures an ague 
that returns every third day. Or drink a quart of cold wa- 
ter just before the cold fit, and then go to bed and sweat. 
Or make six middling-sized pills of cobweb, and take one a 
little before the cold fit, second one a little before the second 
fit, and the third one before the third fit, if needed. I never 
knew it to fail. An ague is an intermitting fever, each fit of 
which is preceded by a cold shivering and goes off in a 
sweat. Or take two tea-spoonfuls of sulphur and saltpetre, 
equal parts, and mix well together—take it an hour before 
the fit comes on. It calmly cures the second time taking. 
Or take a tea-spoonful of the spirits of hartshorn in one gill 
water. Or eat a lemon, rind and all. Or drink a pint of - 
strong chamomile tea,sweetened with molasses—take it warm, . 
in bed, and sweat two hours, 
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TO PREVENT CRAMP. 
Tie your garter smooth and tight under your knee as you 
go to bed. Or be electrified on the part afflicted— 
this generally prevents it a month or so, and sometimes for 
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