RECIPES. 159. 
FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG. 
Apply the decoction of treefoil mixed with hog’s lard, as a” 
plaster. Renew the plaster every three hours for nine days. 
Or plunge into cold water daily for twenty days, and keep as 
long in it as possible. This has cured after the first fit of 
hydrophobia. Take two spoonfuls of the ashes of crawfish 
for forty days. Or mix four drachms of powdered liverwort 
with two drachms of black_pepper, divide this in four parts,- 
and take one in warm milk for four mornings, fasting—sel- 
dom fails. Or take two or three tea-spoonfuls of the juice of 
ribwort morning and evening, as eis as. — after el 
ig Sg 2 ae for one month, 6 ee Ge atte 
ee 
| “A STRONG PURGE. _ 
Drink one-half pint of strong decoction of dock root; or 
- two ounces of the powdered roots of monk’s rheubarb—a 
species of dock—with a scruple of ginger. 
TO CURE INWARD ULCERS. 
“Take two ounces of sassafras, (bark of the root,) two 
ounces colt’s foot, one ounce blood root, one ounce of gum 
myrrh, one ounce of winter bark, one ounce of suckatrain— 
steep them in two quarts of spirits, and take a wine-glassful 
every morning, fasting. 
ee 
CRAMP IN THE STOMACH, OR ANY INWARD PART. 
Take ten drops of oil of lavender and one grain pulverized 
camphor gum, on sugar or in wine. Repeat the dose once 
an hour, if required. 
