RECIPES. ; 139 
\ DRY OR CONVULSIVE ASTHMA. 
Drink a pint of new milk morning andevening. This has . 
cured the hardest cases of Asthma. Use the cold bath twice 
a week., Or beat saffron fine and take ten grains every 
night. Or dry and powder a toad and make small pills of it, 
and take one every hour till convulsions cease. In any 
Asthma, apple-water is the best drink. 
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TO PREVENT BLEEDING AT THE NOSE. 
Drink whey freely every morning; and eat. raisins freely ; 
or wet a cloth with cold water and Jay it on the back and 
each side of the neck; or wash the nose, temples and neck _ 
with. vinegar ; or nee nettle root, spitting out the juice ; or 
hold a red hot iron under the nose; or steep a linen rag in 
vinegar, burn it, and blow it up the nose with a quill. In a 
violent case, go into a pond or river. 
TO STOP A WOUND BLEEDING, 
Bind a barfdage on the arms above the elbows ; or apply - 
the tops of nettles, bruised; or leaves of heal-all, bruised— 
infallible ; or spread the ashes of linen on a linen cloth, and 
apply it thick; or strew on the ashes of a linen rag dipped in _ 
sharp vinegar and burnt; or sprinkle on the powder of ripe 
puff ball, and bind on the ball—infallible. It will stop arte- 
ries bleeding. 
TO PREVENT CHAPPED HANDS. 
Wash them with salt and water (hot) and ground mus- 
tard; or in brand and salt water, hot as you can bare it— 
wash the hands with soft soap mixed with red sand ; or ap- 
ply and annoint with oil of myrrh. 
