156 : - RECIPES. 
‘THE PALSY. 
Use the cold bath if you are under fifty, rubbing sa ; 
sweating after it; or cut white onions and bake them gently 
in an earthen pot till they are soft—then spread a thick plas- 
ter of this and apply it to the benumbed part, all over the 
side if need be; or take tar water morning and evening; oF 
boil white and ial sage, two ounces each, in a quart of white 
wine, then strain and bottle it—take a wine-glassful morning 
and evening. This helps in all nervous disorders. Or apply 
to the parts boiled sage leaves, hot, and drink a decoction of 
sage morning and evening; or apply the leayes of boiled 
water-dock in the form of a poultice, and bathe the affected 
part in hot salt and water. 
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PALSY OF THE BANDA. 
Wash them in hot sage ‘tea, as hot as can be borne; oF 
boil elder leaves and mustard seed in water—wash them often 
in this as hot as you can bare. 
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FOR PALSY IN THE MOUTH. 
After purging well, chew mustard seed often; or hold in 
your mouth one-half ounee of the spirits of lavender ; oF 
gargle with the juice of wood sage. 
_ AN OLD, STUBBORN PAIN IN THE BAOK. 
Steep the root of water fern in. water till the water becomes 
thick and clammy—rub the parts affected morning and eve 
ning, lat as 
