RECIPES. 181 
FOR GRAVEL OR STONE. 
Take lobelia, violets, chamomile, smartweed, each one 
ounce, and boil them in two quarts of water down to one— 
strain and add one ounce of pearlash, eighteen ounces onion 
_ juice, and one quart of good Holland gin, well filled with . 
juniper. Take a wine-glassful three time a day, fasting. 
Drink nettle and pumpkin seed tea, equal parts, for common 
drink, and eat freely of raw onions for breakfast—if too 
strong raw, boil them a little. Or take one> ounce of spirits 
turpentine, sweet spirits of nitre, and oil of balsam, one ounce 
each, and cut them in one pint of alcohol. Put itin one 
quart of strong tea of the bark of high blackberry and horse 5 
mint. Take a wine-glassful three times asada esses j 
a strong tea of benne leaves freely. ae , 
FOR DIABETES AND LIVER COMPLAINT, 
Take one-half pound of black cherry bark and steep in 
one quart of port wine forty-eight hours, then dissolve one- 
half ounce of alum in one gill of strong checkerberry tea, 
and cut one-fourth ounce of oil of anise in one gill of alco- 
hol. Put all together and shake them well. Take a wine- 
glassful three times aday. . 
FOR THE LIVER COMPLAINT. 
Make a strong tea of burdock, wormwood and dandelion 
and drink it freely. 
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GOUT. 
~ Apply a leek poultice to the part affected. Its effects are 
worthy of notice. Garlics and anise seed is good. 
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