262 > : RECIPES. 
- PLASTER FOR FELLONS. 
Take four ounces of strong tobacco, boil it in one quart of 
water one-half hour, then strain the liquor and put in one 
- pound of pitch boiled from old knots. Simmer them all to- 
gether over a slow fire till it forms a salye, If the swelling 
is on the hand or foot, lay it on the wrist or ankle, or above 
the next joint wherever the swelling is. This will take out 
all the pain very soon. Dress the sore with any other salve. — 
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FOR THE PHTHISIC. 
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Take four ounces of hen’s fat and one ball of skunk’s cab- 
bage, powdered fine, and stew them together till it is dry— . 
then strain and take a tea-spoonful three times a day. Or 
make a syrup of white swamp honey-suckle blossoms and 
queen of the meadow roots—add to one quart of the syrup 
one-half pound of honey and one-half pint of brandy. Take 
se —— three times a day. 
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CURE FOR THE ASTHMA. 
Take two ounces each of spikenard root, sweet flag root, 
elecampane root, and common chalk—pulverize them all to- 
gether, and add to it one pound of honey or loaf sugar, beat 
it well together, and take one tea-spoonful three times a Loaf 
Or take linseed oil and sugar freely. . 
- FOR THE DROPSY. 
Take one-half pound of blue flag and one-half pound ele- 
eampane root, and boil them in one gallon of water to a quart, 
and strain and sweeten with one pint of molasses. Take 
one-half gill three = a day, =~ 
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