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SALVE FOR FELONS, CANCERS, FEVER SORES, OR ANY 
OLD SORES. 
Take one pound white pine turpentine, one pound castile — 
soap, one pound mutton tallow, one pound beeswax, and 
melt all together. This is good to heal all kinds of wounds 
ATygh cancers, warts and corns. Z 
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TO CURE SPRAINS AND WEAKNESS IN THE BAOK. 
Take one quart fourth-proof brandy and one gill spirits 
turpentine, cut together with one ounce origanum, cut with 
aleohol and one ounce alum dissolved in water; put all to- 
gether and shake well. Bathe veith thin sind -i6 yi. aest 
ankle sprains or weakness in the back. — 
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FOR THE HICCOUGH. 
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Swallow a mouthful of water and hold the mouth and ears 
shut ; or take anything that will make you sneeze; or take 
one-half ounce of candied ginger ; or two or three preserved 
damson plumbs ; or three drops of the oil of cinnamon on a 
lees of sugar. 
A RASH FEVER. 
Drink every hour a spoonful of the juice of ground ivy 
for twenty-four hours. Usé the decoction if you have not 
the juice. 
EAR-ACHE FROM HEAT. _ 
Apply a cloth of four thicknesses wet with cold water, 
change them when warm every ten minutes, and drop in 
three drops of lemon juice, 
