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RECIPES, — 183 
FOR LEPROSY. 
Use the cold bath ; or wash in the sea often and long ; or 
wash the parts with the juice of mountain mint; or take 
one-half gill of the Indian Physic every night for six days, 
and bathe with bath linament and warm water, equal parts, 
morning and evening, and annoint with the camphorated oil. 
Follow up this process three months and it will effect a cure. 
Take the Indian Physic every other week, and after an ope- 
ration take one tea-spoonful of the Health Bitters three times 
a day, and diet light a few days. Or mix one ounce of poma- 
tum, one drachm of sulphur, one-half ounce of s z 
boil them in one gill of sweet oil, and annoint the « ffected 
part three times a day. Wash with castile soap. Or add 
one pint of juice of house leek and one-half pint of unripe 
lemons, grapes or crab-apples,put them in one and a half pints of 
drink largely for twenty-four hours onee an hour. Or drink 
one-half pint of celery whey morning and evening. This 
has cured in a desperate case. Or drink morning and eve- 
ning a ‘strong elm bark tea es one month. 
GOUT AND RHEUMATISM. 
Take puff ball root and pulverized salmony, each one scru- 
ple. Mix it with balsam Peru and make sixteen pills. Take 
one at night and one in the morning. 
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“QUINSY._ 
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nag a: 
Sweat with thorne herb boiled in milk and water. Take 
penneroyal tea and sweat three or four times powerfully. 
