142 RECIPES, 
FOR THE DROPSY. Ss 
Med the cold bath daily and. physic often; or drink no- 
thing but lemonade; or take what will lie on a sixpence of 
powdered sorrel lens every three days—it physics and 
vomits. Or mix one-half ounce of amber with a quart of — 
wine vinegar, and heat a brick sizing hot, but not so as to 
burn, and put the brick in a tub—then pour the vinegar on 
the brick, and hold or set the patient or swelled part over the 
smoke, and cover the tub to keep in the smoke, and it will 
start the water and cure the patient. Or cover the whole 
bowels with new sponge dipped in strong lime water and 
squeezed out. This bound on often effects cures without any 
sensible evacuation of water. Or apply green dock leaves to 
the joints and soles of the feet—change them twice a day- 
Or abstain from all drink for thirty days, and to ease your 
thirst take a thin slice of bread dipped in brandy, or wash 
your mouth with tlie juice of lemon, Or drink one gill of 
tar water twice a day, fasting. Or make a strong tea of 
juniper berries roasted, and take a gill of i it three times a day, 
fasting. Or eat a crust of bread every morning, fasting- 
Or drink sea water morning and evening. Or mix a pound 
of brown sugar with a pint of the juice of pellitory of the 
wall, then pound in a marble mortar, and boil it and skim it 
well; when cold, bottle and cork it tight. If very bad, take 
: three spoonfuls at night and two in the morning. It seldom 
fails. Or take a spoonful of artichoke. leaves morning and 
evening. Or take three spoonfuls of the juice of leeks and 
elder leaves morning and evening, 
TO PREVENT CORNS. 
“Wash the feet often in cold water. 
