across. M7 
- FOR COLIC IN THE FIT. : 
Drink a pint of cold water ; ora quart of warm water ; or 
as largely as possible of warm tea; or a pint of water in 
which a hot flint is quenched ;. or dank freely of chamomile 
tea ; or a decoction of mallows ; or take thirty-two drops ¢ of 
splits turpentine in one gill of water ; or one-half drachm of 
yellow orange peel powdered in one gill of water; or pound. 
and make a cake of one pound of raisins dried in the sun, 
three pounds of j juniper berries, and eat more or less of it ac: 
cording to the pain. Or take from thirty to sixty dre 
‘oil anise seed on a lump of sugar. Thirty drops is a dose. 
Renew it if needed. Or apply. outwardly a bag of hot oats; 
or hot, water in a bladder ; or put them ina tub of salt an 
water as hot as they can baré, when they take the oil of 
anise—at and before you give the anise give a portion of the 
Indian Physic. It will cure the hardest cases of Colic if 
there is a possibility of a cure. The Physic — be ee 
one —_ before the warm bath. 
FOR ASTHMATIC COUGH. 
Boit two ounces of liquorice in three. pints of water to a 
quart, and when blood warm add one-half ounce of salt of 
tartar. Take two spoonfuls every two hours. © 
FOR A CONVULSIVE COUGH. 
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Wash the head in cold water every morning; or use the “= 
cold bath—seldom fails; or take one-half pint of decoction 
of onions every morning and evening ; or a spoonful of 0 onion : 
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