RECIPES. — a 151 
FOR GOUT IN ANY LIMB, 
Rub the part, with warm India molasses and bind on a 
flannel wet with the same. Repeat it every twelve hours. 
Or dry sage in the sun for one day, and apply this—it will 
ease the pain in one night. Or undress and wrap yourself 
up well, then put your feet and legs i in salt and water as hot 
as you can bare it—as it cools put in more hot water; drink 
one.ounce of root ginger in good old cider—sit three or four 
hours—go into a warm bed, and be careful not to take cold. - 
FORA WIND RUPTURE. pee es 
cumin seed on it, and ay it hot. When cold put on a 
new one. It generally cures a child keeping his bed in“two 
days. : ® 
A RUPTURE ORSBURST. 
Take agrimony, spleenwort, Solomon’s seal and strawberry 
roots, a large handful of each—steep and boil two hours in. 
two quarts of white wine in a vessel closely covered—strain 
and take a wine-glassful every hour. It generally cures in a 
fortnight. A good truss, meantime, is good. 
FOR INWARD PILES. 
Drink largely of molasses and water; or drink a spoonful 
of the juice of yarrow or leeks, three or four mornings. 
FOR A STITCH IN THE SIDE. _ 
Apply hot toast spread with molasses. 
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