168 a RECIPES, 
FOR THE INFLUENZA OR COUGH. f 
Boil two ounces of balm of gilead buds in one quart of 
water till the gum is all out, take out the buds, and add two 
ounces of honey and one ounce of loaf sugar, one-half gill of 
sharp vinegar—take one table-spoonful at 9 o'clock in the ~ 
morning and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. If the cough is 
dry, add and boil with the balm of gilead buds one ounce of 
butternut buds, and boil them well together. : 
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FOR PAIN IN THE STOMACH. 
Take bass-wood, yellow birch, beech, yellow ash, and black 
alder barks, equal parts, boil them in water two hours, strain 
the liquor and boil it to a gum. Put one ounce of the gum 
in one pint of brandy, and take a wine-glassful three times 4 
day, fasting—that is before eating. 
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TO CURE CORNS, 
Take the ashes of yellow willow and moisten them with 
water, and lay it on a few times; or bind on rattlesnake skin 
afew cowie 
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FOR HYPOCHON DRIA. os 
“Take one tea-spoonful of month radish juice as you go to 
bed. 
TO PREVENT BOILS BY CLEANSING THE BLOOD. 
Drink a strong tea matle of burdock roots for two or three 
days. : 
