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" RECIPES. 179 
WORMS. 
Take one-half ounce prickly ash bark,-one ounce of pars- 
ley, two ounces of scales of iron from the anvil of a smith, 
one-half ounce alum, and two ounces of sage—steep in one 
pint of water strong. Strain and add one-half pint of mo-- 
lasses and one-half pint of rum. Give a rei three 
times a sede aren aa 
FOR RING-WORMS. < 
Boil two ounces of tobacco in one pint of vervine, and add 
one gill of es. aie one gill of lye. Rub it on every two 
hours. ide eek 
Se : rn agers 
TO TAKE AGUE OUZ OF THE FACE. 
Take green moss and stew it in vinegar, and lay it on as a 
poultice as hot as can be borne. It generally effects a cure 
the first or second application. 
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FLUOR ALBUS. 
Put one ounce of borax in one pint of wine, and inks two 
. table-spoonfuls three times a day, and drink hemlock bark 
tea. - 
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FOR A FELLON. 
Take one-fourth pound of blue flag root, four ounces of _ 
poke ‘root, and boil them in one quart of milk. Soak the 
hand in it, as hot as can be borne, for thirty minutes. Bind 
_ the roots on two hours, and repeat the same tfil it breaks or 
is cured, If it breaks, dress it with. balsam firr. 
