‘ RECIPES. BIE 163 
A CURE AND PRESERVATIVE AGAINST BILIOUS FEVERS. 
The fullness of bile is the cause of all sorts of fevers, jaun- 
dice, bilious colic, and cholera morbus. Physic once in three. 
or four months with blood root and mandrake ; take one ta- 
ble-spoonful of the roots pulverized together, are and morn- 
ing till it operates. Make small beer with spruce boughs, 
elder, burdock, sarsaparilla and spikenard roots; with hops 
and white ash bark, and drink it freely. Make a bitter with — 
unicorn roots, bark of white wood roots, and the yellow-dust 
of hops—take a tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting. Or — 
take a eee of Health Bit Bitters three times a ee 
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dian Physic every three hours till it moves. the bowels three ~ 
or four times smartly, then give the patient one-half tea- 
spoonful of the Slumbering Drops one-half hour before eat- 
ing. If it commences by vomiting, give strawberry vine tea 
till the vomiting subsides, then give the Physic as above. 
After the phyais operates, bathe with salt and water; or vine- 
gar. Dress the patient cool and keep him from the open 
air for a week. 
FOR CONSUMPTION, 
Put one-half bushel of barley malt in fifteen gallons of 
boiling hot water, and let it stand six hours ; then put in one- 
half bushel of white pine bark, one pound of spikenard roots, 
and one pound of syria grass—boil them down to eight gal- 
lons, and put it in a keg—then put in a little yeast or emp- 
tyings and let it work. _ Then bottle it up and drink one-half _ 
pint three times a day, fasting. : 
