RECIPES. 186. 
FOR HYDROPHOBIA. 
Take two ounces pulverized scull-cap, divide it into seven 
powders, and give one every three hours. Bleeding is said 
to cure. Draw one anda half pounds blood, and in six hours 
draw eight ounces more. Give cold water freely. Or take 
two ounces rye dough, two ounces old hog’s lard, mix them 
together, and spread them on white leather and lay on the 
wound. Follow it up two or three days. Or bruise six. 
ounces rue, six ounces garlics, four ounces molasses and four 
ounces pulverized pewter. Boil slow in two quarts of ale to 
three pints, and bottle and cork it tight. Give nine spoon- 
fuls, a little warm, seven mornings successively. Give a dog: 
six spoonfuls nine days after the bite. Apply some of the 
ingredients to the part bitten. Or take one drachm brass. 
filings, two ounces brown burnt and pulverized white beatr © 
meal, in milk or in milk broth, and stir together. Given in 
two doses, one, hour apart. e 
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FOR SPRAINS. 
Take spirits Bia three gills, fourth-proof brandy 
three gills, chamber-lye, beef gall, neat’s-foot oil, each one- 
half gill—add one ounce fine salt, one ounce alum, two ounces 
vinegar, and simmer them altogepger. ~ Annoint the sprained 
parts with it, hot as can be borne, every three or four hours. 
Or take one-fourth ounce pulverized black pepper, one-half - 
ounce salt, one-fourth ounce ginger, and the white of three 
eggs. Spread it on a bat of scorched tow, and lay it on cold. 
Renew it every two or three Hours. 
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POLYPUS IN THE NOSE. 
Use , powdered blood root as snuff freely. - 
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