FOR THE DROPSY. — 
Take sassafras (bark of the root) one pound, prickly ash 
bark one pound, spice wood bush one-half pound, garlics one- 
fourth pound, parsley roots one-fourth pound, horseradish 
roots one-fourth pound, black birch bark one-fourth pound, 
dwarf elder herbs and roots one pound, milkweed: roots one- 
half pound, and balsam boughs one pound—boil them all to- 
gether in three gallons of brand water, then strain and add 
six pounds of sugar and two quarts of good gin, with one-— 
half pound of juniper berries steeped in the gin—bottle it 
up, and take one gill of the syrup three times a day, fasting. 
ESSENCE FOR ALL KINDS OF INWARD WEAKNESS. 
Take twenty pounds of firr boughs, one pound of spike- 
nard, four pounds of red clover, and four pounds of black 
cherry bark—put them in a still with ten gallons of cider, 
draw off three gallons, and —_ a ee of it morn- 
ing and evening. 
FOR STOPPAGE OF WATER. 
Take one spoonful of honey-bees and one-spoonful of cur- 
rant, buds, steep them in hot water strong, ang take two 
spoonfals every half hour. 
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FOR DIABETES, 
Take a weather sheep’s bladder and fill. it with good Ma- 
deira wine and one-half ounce of oil of anise, cut in alcohol 
—take a wine-glassful three or four times a day ; or take ten 
or fifteen drops of oil of anise on sugar as you go to bed. A 
deer’s bladder is the best. 
