174 RECIPES, 
FOR THE QUINSY. 
_ Apply a large white bread-toast dipped in brandy, to the 
crown of the head, till it dries; or drink a quart of cold wa- 
ter, lying down in bed; or swallow slowly of white rose- 
water mixed with syrup of mulberry ; or the juice or jelly of - 
black currants—or a decoction of the leaves or bark. 
_TO RESOLVE COAGULATED MILK. 
Cover the woman with a blanket and hold a pan of hot 
water just under the breast, then stroke it three or four times. 
Do this twice a day till cured. 
FOR A COUGH. ~ 
“Make a syrup of balsam and tamarac bark, equal parts, 
and loaf sugar—bottle it and take a wine-glassful three times 
a day, fasting. 
_ 
TO REDUCE SWELLINGS ON MAN OR BEAST. 
Simmer lovage leaves in fresh butter or cream till itscomes 
to an oil, and annoint the swelled part once an hour till the 
swelling disappears. ; 
FOR INWARD WOUNDS oR INJURIES. 
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Take firr boughs two pounds, elecampane, comfrey, spike- 
nard, masterwort, angelica, ginseng and chamomile, of each 
one pound—put them into a still with one gallon of rum 
and two gallons of water; draw off six quarts and take a 
wine-glassful night and morning, 
