190 RECIPES. 
FEVER SORES. 
: ‘Take hoarhound, low balm, sarsaparilla, loaf sugar, alloes, 
honey, gum camphor, spikenard, spirits turpentine, each one 
ounce, mix and pulverize all together, and take a tea-spoon- 
ful every morning. Wash the affected part with a strong tea 
made of sumach berries, or bark of the root. Or-take two 
drachms blue vitriol, four drachms alum, eight drachms loaf 
sugar, and three ounces honey. Put them in one pint of vin- 
egar, and wash the sore with this. Take a dose of Indian 
Physic every twelve or fourteen days, and drink a tea — 
of burdock roots and balsam boughs, freely. 
RATTLES. 
Give a small tea-spoonful of blood root powdered in mo- 
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lasses; Repeat the dose every half hour till helped. 
RHEUMATIC SALVE. 
Take one-half pound turtle oil, one-half pound pulverized 
cloves, and stir them together for two days, then strain and 
apply it to the affected part two or three times a day. It is 
* sovereign remedy for Rheumatism, Numbness, and Gout. 
FOR THE DROPSY. 
- ‘Take Scotch cap leaves and steep them. Drink freely for 
six or eight weeks and it will effect a cure, 
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“HEARTBURN, 
Drink lovage tea tinctured with 
Sa. 
prepared chalk, say one 
ounce, and one-eighth ounce nitre, 
to a quart. 
