148 : RECIPES. 
FOR A COUGH. — 
When first afflicted, chew a small piece of Peruvian bark 
and swallow the spittle, as long as it is bitter. *If youcough — 
again, chew another piece. Cures if the bark is used within 
twenty-four hours after it commences. Or chew a piece of | 
sweet flag as large as a small pea, and swallow the spittle, 
will also cure. Or drink a pint of cold water and go to bed ; 
or mix one ounce of linseed oil with one ounce of white sugar 
candy, powdered, and take a tea-spoonful when you cough; 
or make a hole through a lemon and fill it with honey, then 
roast it and catch the juice, and take a wine-glassful of this 
three times a day, fasting. = — 
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| FOR CONVULSIVE COUGH. ‘ 
_ Take three pounds of turnips and one pound of sugar, 
and put them in an earthen pot closely covered for twenty- 
four hours—then strain the juice and take two spoonfuls 
morning and evening; or mix the juice of boiled turnips 
with fine powdered sugar candy till it is a kind of syrup, and 
take eight drops every half hour till it is gone; or take a 
table-spoonful of hoarhound syrup morning and evening ; oF 
put twenty-fourth of an ounce of spermaciti with a yolk of .a 
new-layed egg, and sup it in the morning, fasting. 
FOR PLEURITIC COUGH. 
Powder one ounce of spermaciti fine and ‘work it with the 
yolk of a fresh egg—mix them in white wine, and take @ 
wine-glassful every three hours. 
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