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RECIPES. 169 
TO PREVENT A RELAPSE IN CASES OF DYSENTERY. 
Take from five to fifteen drops of the oil of anise on loaf 
sugar; or make a tea of Canada thistle root, one-half ounce, 
and bitter-walnut meats, sweetened with loaf sugar, taken 
freely, effects a cure without danger ; or boil firr balsam bark 
to a strong tea and sweeten it with loaf sugar, and put in 
one-fourth part of port wine ; or take white pine bark, beech 
leaves and Canada thistle roots, equal parts, steep them and 
sweeten it with loaf sugar, and put in one-half port wine. 
Give all the above preparations freely, one table-spoonful at a 
~ time. Or make a tea of chestnut tree, (bark of the root,) 
and take a table-spoonful every hour till helped. : 
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FOR INWARD ULCERS. 
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Take the bark of sassafras root two eunces, colt’s foot root 
two ounces, blood root two ounces, gum myrrh one ounce, 
and steep them in two quarts of spirits—take one-half gill 
every morning and live on simple diet as much as possible. 
_ For drink, make a beer of one peck of barley malt, two 
pounds spikenard root, two pounds comfrey root, one pound 
burdock root, two pounds black spruce boughs, five pounds 
angeliea root, one pound fennel seed, one-fourth pound win- 
tergreen—all for ten gallons of beer. Drink one quart a 
day. Exercise light, and ride out every day in fair weather. 
FOR TWISTING OF THE GUTS, 
Put the patient in a tub of hot salt and water, and give 
one-half gill of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic, 
with twenty — of the oil of anise, every two hours, 
