RECIPES, ~ 189 
FOR RHEUMATISM. 
Put one ounce camphor gum in one quart of spirits, and 
add as much of the bark of the root of sassafras as the spirits 
will cover. Steep it twelve hours and take a wine-glassful 
- three fimes aday. Rub the afflicted parts with it. Avoid 
taking cold. Or rub the afflicted part with a strong decoe- 
tion of red pepper and brandy. Or take one-fourth pound 
sassafras, one-fourth pound sarsaparilla, two ounces sweet flag, 
two ounces mountain flax, and steep in two quarts of beer, 
' Strain and add one pint new rum, one ounce pearlash, and 
take one wine-glassful three times a day, fasting, (that is be- 
fore eating.) Or put two ounces sulphur in one quart of 
brandy, and take a wine-glassful three times a day. Or take 
_ one ounce Fern Greek seed and garlic, pound and steep t them | 
in one pint water, and add three pints — Cruz rum. 
Take one tea-spoonful twice a day. 
FOR THE ee USUICL. 
‘Take the white of an egg in one gill of cold. i 
beat well together, every morning for. one month ; or n 
stfong tea of black alder bark boiled in hard cider, and drink 
of it freely ; or take a tea-spoonful of pulverized ivory in one 
fable-spoonful of honey, three mornings, fasting. ~ 
_ CHICKEN-POX, 
Give a table-spoonful of the Reformed Botanic oak Indian 
Physic every six hours till it operates. Then give them 
black cherry tree bark tea,. one-half cider, well sweetened, 
Take one table-spoonful three times a day, and diet light. 
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