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a6.C~S : RECIPES, 
ST, ANTHONY'S FIRE. 
Take a glass of tar water, warm, in bed every hour, after- 
wards wash the parts with the same; or drink as much sea 
or salt water as you can bare ; or take a gentle physic of salts 
and saltpetre—say two ounces of salts and one-half drachm 
of saltpetre, dissolved in cider, and make a free use of strong 
tea of equal parts of burdock roots and yellow dock -roots ; 
or take a strong tea of elder leaves as a sweat; or of wild or 
mother of thyme, applying to the part a cloth dipped in 
lime water mixed in camphorated spirits of wine; or take 
two or three gentle physics, say once in four days ; or use 
the internal medicines, at the same time applying a plaster of 
Venice Mithridate ; or wash in hot brand water; or boil two 
ounces of sage, two ounces of elder leaves or- bark, and one 
ounce of alum, in two quarts of fcrge water to a pint—an- 
noint with it every night; or steep bitter-walnut meats in — - 
_ warm water, and annoint with it. 
‘ FOR COLDS. . 
_ Drink of cold water lying in bed; or a spoonful of mo- 
Jasses in one-half pint of water; or one ounce of oat-meal, 
one ounce of honey, and one-half ounce of butter—pour on 
one pint of boiling water, and drink as you go to bed. 
| ‘TO MAKE LIME WATER. ; 
Pour six quarts of water on one pound of unslacked lime, 
closely covered, and let it stand twenty-four hours; then bot- 
tle and keep it corked tight. 
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TO PREVENT ABORTION. 
Use daily a strong tea made of lignum vite, 
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