160 = RECIPES. 
28 _FOR HECTIC COUGH. 
‘Take the yolk of three hen’s eggs, three spoonfuls of 
“honey, and one of tar—beat them well together, and add one 
gill of wine. Take a tea-spoonful three times a day before. 
eating. Or make a syrup of one pound barley, one pound . 
turnips, one pound of elecampane roots—boil them in three _ 
quarts of water to a quart, strain and add one pound of loaf 
sugar or honey, and one-half pint brandy. Take a table- 
spoonful three times a day. Or sa one-half pound wild 
liquorice, one pound brook liverwort,‘ two ounces elecampane, 
four ounces Solomon’s seal, one-half pound spikenard, four 
, ounces gum firr, and boil in four quarts to one—then strain 
and add two pounds honey, and one pint of good spirits. 
Take one table-spoonful three times a day, before eating. 
~ BILIOUS PILLS. ae 
Take one pound sweet rind aloes, four ounces Jallap, four 
ounces of pulverized blood root, two ounces cloves, two ounces 
saffron—beat them all to a fine powder, and pill them with 
molasses. One the size of a pea will guard against a bilious 
habit, taken every night, but if you wish them to act as 4 
physic, take four or five on going to bed. They give no pain” 
in the operation. 
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ay FOR BILIOUS COLIC, 
Take the above bilious pills, and add to every dose or five 
pills, a tea-spoonful of pulverized mandrake root. This must 
be repeated every hour till helped. You may put the patient 
in a tub of warm salt and water, if very bad. 
