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—— RECIPES, _ 161 
FOR THE FLYING RHEUMATISM. 
Take prince’s pine tops, horseradish roots, elecampane 
roots, prickley ash bark, bitter sweet (bark of the root), wild 
cherry bark, and mustard seed, equal parts of all, and one 
gill of tar water and put into a pint of brandy—take one- . 
half wine-glassful three times a day, one-half hour before 
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FOR TOOTH-ACHE, If THE TOOTH IS HOLLOW. 
Take gum opium, camphor and spirits turpentine, equal 
parts, and r rub them together till a paste—then dip lint in 
paste, and put it in the tooth after eating. Make use of 
this three or four days, and it will stop the tooth from ever 
aching. 
FOR CANKER IN THE MOUTH. 
Take one pound fresh butter and put it in a well glazed 
earthen vessel, set it over a slow fire, and when it boils add 
to it four common green frogs, alive—let them stew till the 
» frogs are dry—take them out and add a little chamomile and 
parsley. When cold, stir in a little pulverized alum, and if 
the fever is high, give a little rattlesnake gall dried in chalke 
This will cure the most inveterate canker in the mouth or 
throat. 
FOR ERYSIPELAS, OR ST. ANTHONY’S FIRE. 
Drink and wash with egg wine freely. . 
FOR SORE NIPPLES. 
Apply a plaster of balsam firr. 
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