RECIPES, 149 
FOR CANCER IN THE BREAST. 
A Cancer is a hard, round, uneven, painful swelling, of a 
blackish or leadish color, the veins around which seem ready 
to burst. It comes commonly at first with a swelling about 
as big as a pea, which does not at first give much pain or 
change the color of the skin. Use the cold bath. This has 
cured many. Generally where cold bathings are necessary to 
cure any disease, water drinking is to prevent’a relapse. If 
it has not broke, apply a piece of sheet lead rolled thin and 
pricked full of pin holes, for days or weeks, to the whole 
breast. Give a portion of the Indian Physic twice a week, 
Rub the breast morning and evening with spirits of harts- 
horn. Or take a mellow apple and take off the top and take 
out the core, fill the hole with hog’s lard, then cover it with 
the top and roast the apple thoroughly ; then take off the 
pearing and beat both well—spread it thick on linen and lay 
it warm on the sore, and put a bladder over. Change it in ~ 
twelve or twenty-four hours. Or take horse warts that grows 
on the inside of the leg, and lay them by the fire till they 
wilt to a powder. Sift and infuse two drachms in two quarts 
of ale. Take one-half pint every six hours. Warm new 
milk has cured many. Or apply dung and celendine beat 
well together and spread on a cloth. It will both cleanse 
and heal the sore. Or a poultice of wild parsnips, flowers, 
leaves and stalks, beat well together, and change it morning 
and evening. Or live three months on apples and apple 
water. sac 
FOR PAIN IN THE TESTICLES. 
Apply (bruised) pellitory of the wall as a poultice, chan g- 
ing it morning and evening. 
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