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HYSTERIC PILLS. 
Boil white root (called Canada root) in soft water two 
hours, then strain the syrup and boil it down thick so that it 
~ ean be made into pills with wheat flour, as large as a pea. 
- Let the patient take two or three when the disorder is com- 
ing on, every night when going to bed. 
FOR BLEEDING AT THE STOMACH. 
Take one pound of yellow dock root and two ounces of 
bitter walnut meats, boil them in one quart of sweet milk, 
. strain it, and drink one gill three times a day, fasting. Take 
also a small pill of white pine turpentine once a day to heal 
the vessels that leak. 
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FOR CONVULSION FITS. 
tea of convulsion roots and herbs, (called by some 
ops,) and drink of it one wine-glassful three times a 
day, fasting 3 ; or make a powder of them and vege the pow- 
_ ders in small doses, say a tea-spoonful. 
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FOR GRAVEL IN THE BLADDER OR KIDNEYS. 
. Make a strong tea of hearts ease and drink freely of it ; 
or make a tea of the roots of Jacob’s ladder and drink leit 
tifully of it. . 
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FOR ITCHING HEELS OR FEET. 
Take hot water and put in salt and saleratus, and wash 
and scrape your feet well once a week. After cleaning them 
annoint them with a little cream. 
