134 = RECIPES. 
FOR FALLING SICKNESS. 
Be electrified ; or use the cold bath for one month daily ; 
or take a tea-spoonful of pulverized peony roots morning and 
evening ; or take a spoonful of Rue juice morning and eve- 
ning, for one month ; or one-half pint of strong lignum vite 
tea morning and evening—infallible; or one-half pint of tar 
water morning and evening, for*three months; or use an en- 
tire milk diet for three months—seldom fails; or take one- 
half drachm of powdered mistletoe every six hours. It is a 
plant that grows on trees. Drink after it a strong tea of 
mistletoe—infallible. In the fit, blow fine ginger through 
the nose; or powdered leayes of asarabacca—it is an im- 
ported herb. 
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CONSUMPTIVE COUGH. 
as ‘raisins that are dried in the sun, take out the seeds, 
and put-as much tender tops of Rue with them, and pound 
them together—take a spoonful in the morning, fasting. Or — 
boil a pound of stoned raisins in a quart of old unripe 
lemons, grapes, or crab-apples, to a pint; then add one-half 
pound of brown sugar, and simmer it toa syrup. ‘Take a 
spoonful every three hours. 
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CONSUMPTIVE COUGH. 
Eat preserved walnut meats freely ; or boil two ounces of 
bay leaves in one quart of milk, add one quart of white wine, 
and take one-half gill three times a day, fasting. 
CURRANT LEAVES. = - 
Is good in Dropsy, Urine, Gravel or Stone. - 
