186 RECIPES. 
CURE FOR CANCERS. 
Apply blood-suckers (called leeches) every two or three 
days till they drop off alive. This is to effect a cure. Make 
a broth of the tail of lizards, and drink a few times of it. 
This has cured inveterate cancers. 
ANOTHER. | 
Dissolve one drachm corrosive sublimate in one ounce of 
water, wash the tumor with it, scrape the tumor a little, and 
then put ona plaster made of water hemlock, Give a gill of 
weak tea, morning and evening, made of watér hemlock, or 
a strong tea of wintergreen, or evergreen, or winterberry- 
Drink it freely, and keep the cancer wet with it. 
FOR THE HEAD-ACHE, 
Put two ounces eamphor gum and two ounces ether in one 
@*"t of alcohol—then dissolve one ounce salt, one ounce salt- 
petre and one ounce alum in one pint of vinegar. Put all in 
one bottle, and shake them well together. Wet a cloth three 
or four thicknesses with it, and lay the cloth on the crown of 
the-head and keep it on. Also bathe the temples freely 
with it. dig Se 
Nee WEAK LIMBS. : 
“ake leather shavings and comfrey root, equal parts, steep 
them in fourth-proof brandy, and wash the limbs with it. 
HICCOUGH. . == 
Take five drops of the oil of amber in wintrge tea 
every ten minutes until they stop. 3 
