RECIPES. : 141 
FOR COSTIVENESS. 
_- Rise early every morning and boil one-half pound of mal- 
low leaves in two quarts pf water, ‘take one gill of it three 
times a day, one half hour before eating; or drink burdock 
root tea sweetened with molasses, freely ; or breakfast every 
- three days on water gruel, with currants, well sweetened with 
India molasses; or mix one ounce of pulverized cream tartar 
in two ounces honey, and take three times a day, fasting. 
CANCER IN THE BREAST. eer te eek 
Take one-half drachm of Venice soap twice a day; or 
drink two quarts of ass’ milk a day, and neither eat nor 
drink anything else for two months ; or make an ointment of 
the leaves of plumbago, leatherwort and toothwort, in olive 
oil, and annoint the ulcers twice a day.- 
TO CURE CHILBLAINS. 
Rub with salt and onions when powdered together; or a 
poultice of hot roasted onions kept on two or three days— 
change often ; or roasted turnip pearings, hot—change them 
twice a day ; or wash them with brake root tea with tincture 
of myrrh in a little water. _ 
FOR BOILS. 
Apply a little Venice turpentine ; or a plaster of honey and 
wheat flour ; or a plaster of figs; or a little saffron in a white 
bread poultice. Take a gentle physic occasionally. 
FOR A COLD IN THE HEAD. 
Pare the rind of an orange very thin and roll it up inside 
out, and put a roll in each nostril. 
