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RECIPES, 187 
STONE OR GRAVEL 
Take one and a half pounds of the roots of garden leek, 
simmer them over a slow fire, and keep them covered. Put 
them in one gallon of soft water, and simmer till reduced 
one-half. Take one-half pint three times a day, morning, 
noon and night, for ten or twelve days. Or take one gill of 
- horse-mint and one gill red onions, mix together, and take 
one table-spoonful morning and evening. If green mint can 
not be had, make a strong tea of dry. Or jam one-half 
pound of water-mellon seeds in one pint of gin—let it stand 
for one week, and take one-half wine-glassful two or three 
times a <x 
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POISON FROM OXIDE OF COPPER. 
Take one table-spoonful of pulverized charcoal and mix 
with butter, honey, or molasses. Immediately, or within two 
hours, give a thorough phystc. 
FOR CRACKED HANDS. 
‘Take one-half pound fresh butter, one-half ounce red ee 
cipjtate, one ounce spirits turpentine, and simmer together. 
Rub it on the places affected when you go to bed, or rub 
them with ointment made of fresh butter and pitch pine gum. 
FOR URINE—OBSTRUCTED. 
Steep pumpkin seeds in gin and take a wine-glassful three 
times a day, fasting. 
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_ AGUE IN THE FACE, | 
Put on a poultice of ginger and flour. sdipply it warm. 
