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126 RECIPES. 
ANOTHER EXCELLENT EYE-WATER. 
Infuse in one-half pint of lime water one drachm of sal- 
amoniac, powdered, for twenty-four hours, then strain and 
bottle it tight—put one drop in twice a day, and wash the 
temples with vinegar. This has also cured most diseases of, 
e eye. 
ANOTHER, 
Dissolve three spoonfuls of pulferized rock salt and one 
ounce of loaf sugar in three pints of hot spring water, and 
when cold bottle it without straining; after standing twenty- 
four hours rack it off carefully, and put one drop in the eye 
“morning and evening. It answers the purpose of almost all 
_ preceding medicines. It takes away redness or soreness, 
cures pearls, rheums, and often blindness. Take six ounces 
of rectified spirits of wine and dissolve in it one drachm of 
camphor gum—then add one and a half ounces of dried 
sweet elder flowers and one drachm saltpetre, let it stand — 
' twenty-four hours, and bathe your forehead and temples with 
it eight or ten times a day, morning, noon and night, and 
bathe the eyes with new milk a dozen times. If the eyes 
are ulcerated, add to a spoonful of the wash, alum, pulver- 
ized, as big as a wheat grain, and twice as much loaf sugar. 
Put a drop in the eye at night as you go to bed, and continue 
it. If your eyes are watery, wet the lids two or three times 
a piece. Shut the eyes while washing the lids; and if you 
have the tooth-ache or swelled face, rub it well with the 
wash. If used immediately, it will take away the pain and 
cure any bruise ; and if followed up well any length of time, 
will cure inflamination $ in the ate kee 
HARD WAX IN THE EARS. 
Drop in the ears urine or warm waiter, 
