‘ RECIPES. | : 191° 
HOT DROPS FOR RHEUMATISM. 
Take one pint brandy. or alcohol, two ounces gum myrrh, 
one ounce gum aloes, one ounce gamboge, one-half ounce 
gum guaiacum, one drachm African cayene, pulverize all to- 
gether, and putin the brandy. Take a tea-spoonful in water 
twice a day, and bathe the afflicted part with it. Take a lit- 
tle always before bathing. 
TO RELAX CORDS. 
Pound green smart weed. and put it on asa poultice. Shift 
often till the cord relaxes. Or beat one ounce salt and one 
ounce of the white of eggs, and bathe with it. 
TO GIVE ACTION TO THE BOWELS. 
Poultice with powdered carrots or smart-weed. Add and 
moisten with essence of sassafras. 
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FOR SCURVY. 
Dissolve three ounces saltpetre in one quart of vinegar, and 
take a lacie three times a day, fasting. 
FOR THE DIABETES. 
Drink freely of buck-horn brake root tea. It will cause 
abortion. 
TO STOP VOMITING. 
Take four ounces pulverized buck-horn and steep it in one 
quart of water for thirty minutes. Take one tea-spoonful 
~ every ten minutes. 
