RECIPES. 157 
FOR THE BLOODY FLUX. 
_Apply a ffnen ici dipped in ier. and aie freely of 
blackberry root tea, sweetened with loaf sugar; or drink as 
much cold water as you can, taking nothing else till the flux _ 
stops; or take out the core of a large apple and fill up the 
hole with a piece of honey-comb—after the honey is strained 
out, then roast the apple in embers and eat it—it will stop 
the flux immediately ; or thirty grains of the powdered root 
of flower de luce twice a week, or as much rheubarb; or a 
decoction of primrose leaves, or of mellilot seed ; or sealed 
rheubarb, as much as will lie on a shilling, and ouechalf as 
much grated nutmeg, in a glass of white wine, lying down, 
every other night ; or one tea-spoonful of bitter-walnut meat 
jelly made of loaf sugar. 
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FOR MENSES, OBSTRUCTED. 
Be electrified ; or take a pint of strong pennyroyal tea at 
night on going to bed; or a spoonful of brook lime syrup, 
morning and evening, fasting ; or a tea-spoonful of powdered 
Columbian seed, morning and evening; or boil five or six 
heads of hemp in one pint of water to one-half pint, then 
strain and sweeten it with loaf sugar. Take one-third of it 
three nights running as you go to bed—it seldom fails. Or 
pour twelve ounces of rectified spirits of wine on four ounces 
of the roots of black hellebore, and let it stand in a warm 
place twenty-four hours—then pour it off and take thirty or 
forty drops in any liquid one-half hour before supper. It is 
good, likewise in the green sickness and in all hypochondri- 
cal cases, and in obstinate madness, 
