RECIPES. 198 
CURE FOR CANCERS. 
Take four pounds of ashes of red oak bark and put on 
three quarts hot water, and let it stand two hours. Strain 
and boil it down to a paste. Put on a plaster of it and keep 
it on from one to one and a half hours. Then put on a tar 
plaster a few days, and repeat both plasters till the cancer is 
eaten out, then dress with any healing salve. Or make a 
plaster of yellow dock by steeping in water and boiling to a 
salve, and dress with it. Boil down scoke berry juice to a 
salve, and dress once or twice with it. Afterwards dress with 
the salve as above. * 
FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG. 
Take eight ounces of tops and roots of tory weed, and 
pound and simmer them in milk, and give it to the patient. 
Pound the tops and roots and put them on as a poultice. 
Repeat the poultice every three hours, 
= CHOLERA MORBUS. . 
Take one-half ounce beef gall, one-half ounce barberry 
bark, one-half ounce gum myrrh, one-eighth ounce cayenne 
pepper seeds, pulverize all together, and pill it the size of a 
large pea. Give one every two hours till cured. , 
ULCERATED SORES. 
Make a linament of one-half ounce of spirits of heartshorn 
and one ounce of sweet oil, Mix them well together, and 
bathe the afflicted parts with it. ° 
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