166. RECIPES. 
CURE FOR CANCERS. 
Boil down the lye from the ashes of red oak bark as thick 
as molasses and cover the cancer with it, and about one hour — 
after cover it with-a tar plaster—keep it on three or four 
days. If any of the cancer remains, put on another plaster 
of the potash, and after that the tar plaster again. Continue 
this from time to time till all the fibres and roots of the Can- 
cer disappear, then heal it with the soap salve. It effects a 
speedy cure. ~ 
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FOR CATARRH, 
Take yellow dock, blood root and chalk, four ounces each, _ 
oné dunce of cinnamon, one-half ounce of cloves, and put 
them all together, and take them as snuff eight or ten times 
_aday. Smoke cinnamon and tobacco, sweat the head with 
hemlock, brandy and camphor. Take a portion of the Re- 
formed Botanic and Indian Physic every six or eight days. 
‘TO CURE A SWELLING CAUSED BY A COLD. 
Boil sweet clover twenty minutes in water, thicken it with 
Indian brand, and put it on as a poultice, hot as you can bare 
it, Change it when cold. It generally cures the second or 
third poultice. Simmer sweet clover in hog’s lard to a salve 
—this is remarkable to heal old sores. 
FOR A COLD. 
Take three gills of hemlock bough tea at night, and ouein 
the morning. This closes up the internal pores and prevents 
taking cold- Or make a tea of ‘cock-ash root, frost weed and 
Squaw root. Drink freely of it till well. : 
