~ 
Drink nothing but cold water with a spoonful of wheat 
flour stirred in it—at that time drink a glass of the coldest 
_ water you can get, and apply a thick cloth dipped i in cold 
water ; or put the feet into cold water; or apply a sponge 
dipped in red wine and vinegar; or Pee one tea-spoonful of 
will lie on the point of a penknife, or as big as a pea, once 
an hour, till the flowing subsides; or boil. red hollyhock 
leaves in milk, and sweeten it with sugar. You may add a 
little balm of gilead. Take a table-spoonful. every half 
hour—seldom fails. Or take a gentle rheubarb physic, then 
boil the peel of several oranges in. three pints of spring wa- 
ter to a quart, sweeten it with white sugar, and take a gill 
four times a day. Or use daily the decoction, syrup or pow- 
der, of horse-tail, nettle or plantain. Or reduce to a fine 
powder one-half ounce of alum with .a quarter of an ounce 
of dragon’s blood. Ina violent case, take one-fourth of a 
drachm every half hour, It scarcely ever fails to stop the 
flux before an ounce is taken, This also cures the Whites. 
PAIN IN THE STOMACH, WITH COLDNESS AND WIND. 
Soak black pepper in salt till the hull comes off, then. dry 
it and grind it. Take five or six corns of it six or seven 
mornings. 
| % Pas 
‘HOT COLIC PAINS IN THE STOMACH: 
Take a pint of the decoction of ground ivy with a tea- 
spoonful of the powder of it, five or six mornings. 
RECIPES. 153 
the balm of gilead tea, put in it as much pulverized alum as. 
