180 : RECIPES, 
WHOOPING COUGH. 
~ Take garlics, onions, and sweet oil, each one gill, and sim- 
mer them well together, and add one gill of honey, one-fourth 
ounce of oil of anise, and one-fourth ounce of camphor gum, 
cut in one gill of alcohol. Shake them well together, and 
give a tea-spoontml three times a day. Or take elecampane 
four ounces and honey eight ounces. Set it in a warm place 
forty-eight hours, and give a tea-spoonful three times a day. 
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. FOR PALPITATION OF THE HEART. 
Take a tea-spoonful of powdered Indian hemp root three 
times a day; of take one ounce of oil lavender, four ounces 
~ ether, and tincture of blood root and valerian, each one ounce, 
and mix well together. Give a tea-spoonful three times 4 
day. . - 
FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE. 
Make a decoetion or paste of white poplar (bark of the 
root) by boiling it, and mix it with a little = and put it on 
the tooth. : 
EYE-WATER. 
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Take one-fourth ounce of white vitriol, one-fourth ounce 
rock salt, one ounce unslacked lime, and one ounce of loaf 
sugar. Pore on them two gills of boiling water, let it settle 
and bottle it. Or take one-fourth ounce of alum, one ounce 
of loaf sugar, and dissolve them in one gill of vinegar, and 
add one-fourth ounce of salt and one-fourth ounce of salt-_ 
yor Put in one drop. 
