184 RECIPES, 
“FOR RHEUMATISM. 
Use the cold bath, with rubbing and sweating; or rub in 
warm ‘molasses, and apply to the parts a brown paper wet 
with it—it has cured in twelve hours; or drink largely of 
warm water in bed; or tar water morning and evening; or 
steep six or eight aie of garlic in one-half pint of white 
wine, and take one table-spoonful lying down. It sweats and ° 
frequently cures at once. Or mix equal parts of sulphur and — 
honey together, and take three tea-spoonfuls at night and two 
in the morning, and afterwards one in the morning and eve- 
ning till cured. Or live on new milk whey and white bread 
for fourteen days. This has cured a desperate case. Or 
pound the green stalks of English rheubarb in May, with an 
_ equal quantity of lump sugar, and take a tea-spoonful three 
or four times a day. 
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eid FOR SALT RHEU™. - 
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Take swamp sassafras bark and make a strong tea of it, 
and wash the parts affected with it three days—then add 
mutton tallow and simmer it over a slow fire till the water is 
gone. Annoint the parts afflicted, after washing, four or five 
“days, and take a gill of tl Reformed Botanic and Indian 
, Physic during the time, 
_ FEVER SORES. 
Put on a poultice of stewed pumpkin as warm as can be 
borne. Repeat it once in two or three hours till cured. It 
will bring out the loose bones. Or bathe the sore in the wa- 
ter where a blacksmith cools his iron. Have it warm. 
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