178 RECIPES. 
CURE FOR CANCERS, 
_ * Take one pound of white oak and one pound of red oak 
bark, and boil in four quarts of water two hours, then strain 
and simmer it down as thick as tar, and apply it as a plaster. 
Shift it once a week. Or burn red oak bark to ashes and 
sprinkle it on the-sore till it is eaten out. Then put ona 
plaster of tar. Or balsam firr, mutton tallow and beeswax, 
equal parts. Dress it once a day, and wash it with castile 
soap suds. Repeat this plaster till well. 
FOR THE DIABETES. 
Take alum, loaf sugar and rosin, each one-half ounce, and 
take a powder that will lie on the point of a knife three times 
aday; or take one ounce of ginger in one pint of wine— 
take a wine-glassful three times a day; or dissolve in one 
quart of brandy one ounce of spruce gum and one-half ounce 
of ginger. Take one table-spoonful three times a day. 
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THE FRENCH SWEET-CLOVER SALVE. 
Take beeswax, sweet clover, the yolk of an egg, and mut- 
ton tallow, equal parts, simmer them together, and annoint or 
apply it to the swelling or wound, as suits best. 
FOR MORTIFICATION. 
Take one pound of white oak bark and boil itin one quart 
of water one hour to a pint, then strain and add powdered | 
charcoal-and Indian meal, equal parts, and lay it on the af- 
flicted part as a poultice, cold. “Repeat it every two hours. 
Make’a strong tea of Indigo weed and. mix it with one-half 
' brandy, and bathe the afflicted part. with it, 
