RECIPES. 135 
TO STOP SPITTING BLOOD... 
Take prunes and stem, and “eat them freely two or three 
nights as you go to bed. Ora wine-glassful of onion juice. 
Or four spoonfuls of nettle juice every morning and as much 
every night as you go to bed, for six or eight days. Or take 
frequently a spoonful of nettle and plantain leaf juice, mixed 
and sweetened with loaf sugar. Or three spoonfuls of sage 
juice in honey. This stops spitting or vomiting blood. Or 
one-half a tea-spoonful of rock oil on a lump of loaf sugar, 
at night as yon go to bed. It commonly cures immediately. 
gO CURE CORNS. 
‘Shave the corn down well, and boil the juice of radishes 
thick enough to spread a plaster and lay it on; shift it as 
often as it dries for two days—then spread a plaster of the 
Cohesive Salve on suet skin and lay it on—keep on till it 
comes off, and shift if necessary. Or take horse leeks, and 
bruise them, and lay them on. .Renew it every three hours 
for-twenty-four hours. Or apply fresh i ivy. leaves daily, will 
fetch them out in fifteen days. 
FOR WEAK EYES. 
_ Wash the eyes morning and evening with camphorated 
spirits of wine—keep the eyesshut. Or wash the head daily 
with cold water. 
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ei VOMITING BLOOD. 
Take three spoonfuls of sage juice in honey ; or two 
spoonfuls of nettle juice dissolves coagulated blood in the 
stomach. Or one spoonful of quince juice; or one gill of 
nettle and plantain juice three times a day. 
