RECIPES. 165 
FOR THE PILES. 
If outward, make an ointment of chamomile, sage, pars- 
ley, and burdock—the leaves of each—and simmer them in 
fresh butter and sweet oil. Annoint with it, and take one 
gill of tar water three times a day. If inward, take tar wa- 
ter twice a day, and essence of firr, one spoonful, as you go 
to bed. 
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FOR COMMON CANKER. 
Pound ‘and steep canker root in water, and wash with it 
and drink it freely. Canker weed grows from three to four 
_ feet high—its leaves are like clover, and it siniabes ee ee. 
and around stumps and cage 
WHOOPING | G COUGH, 
Take four ounces of elecampane root and one-half pound 
of honey, steeped in earthern over a slow fire, or a half-hot 
oven. Give a tea-spoonful three times a day. If the rootis _ 
dried, add one gill water. A larger child may take more. 
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FOR THE EAR-ACHE. 
Drop in five drops of tobacco leaf tea, and stop it up with 
cotton or wool. 
FOR PAIN IN THE EYES OR HEAD. 
Drop in the ear two or three drops of turtle oil. It gives 
immediate relief. 
FOR SORE NIPPLES. 
Put on the oil of butternuts a few times. 
