158 «RECIPES, 
2 FO PREVENT THE PLAGUE. 
Eat merigold flowers daily as a sallad, with oil and vine- — 
gar; or a little of the tops of rue with bread and butter, 
every morning; or infuse rue, sage, mint, rosemary, and 
wormwood, each two ounces, in two quarts of the best vine- _ 
gar, over warm embers, for eight days. Then strain and dis- 
solye in three ounces of rectified spirits of wine. With this 
wash the loins, face and mouth, and snuff a little up the nose 
when you go from home—smell of a sponge dipped in this” 
when you approach infected persons or plane 
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FOR THE MEASLES. 
Drink water gruel, or milk and water—the more the nk 
ter; or eat toasted bread and water sweetened with loaf 
sugar ; or take frequently two spoonfuls of barley water,two 
spoonfuls of new almond oil, and two spoonfuls of the syrup 
of maiden hair. After the measles for some weeks use light 
diet and drink barley water. Be careful about taking 
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TORPOR oR NUMBNESS OF THE LIMBS. 
Use the cold bath every morning and go to bed after ee 
Take a raliile Health _—- and rub with the Pain Extractor. 
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Apply a plaster made of sweet elder bark and turpentine. 3 
“WORMS. 
Mix worm aed with molasses, and give, say 0 one pe 
fal mornings, fasting. 
