RECIPES. — 177 
ST. VITUS’ DANCE. 
Purge with the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic and 
one-fourth ounce of blood root to one-half gill of the prepa- 
ration. Then steep one-fourth ounce camphor and one ounce 
of blood root in one-half pint of spirits, and add one-half 
ounce of saltpetre dissolved in one-half gill of vinegar. Take 
a tea-spoonful three times a day, and drink freely of a tea 
made of sage, rue and pennyroyal, equal parts, and sweeten 
with loaf sugar. Or pour cold water on the patient’s head 
three or four times a day for five or ten minutes, Mix oil of 
lavender, one-fourth ounce, with one ounce of ether, and rub 
the back of the neck and wrist -with it =e and ORME 
for six or eight days. : fee 
TO STOP A FEVER SORE FROM HEADING, AND SCATTER- © 
ING IT. 
Sweat it with flannel cloths dipped in hot brine. The 
cloths must be changed when cold for three hours. Then 
wash it with brandy and wrap itena flannel. Repeat this 
three or four times. — 
TO STOP VOMITING, 
Take pulverized camphor gum and pour on boiling water, 
sweeten it with loaf sugar, and give a spoonful every ten 
minutes ; or pound green wheat or grass, squeeze out the 
juice, and give a spoonful once in ten minutes. oe al 
"FOR WENS. 2 
 Stinmer es and salt (equal parts) digenl’ asians the 
wen with it three or four times a day. 
