304 RECIPES. 
CURE FOR THE ASTHMA. 
Take one-fourth ounce of spirits turpentine, one ounce of 
gum arabic, one ounce of balsam, one ounce of sweet spirits 
of nitre, and two ounces of honey—put all in one quart of 
good gin, and take a tea-spoonful three times a day. Drink 
freely of a syrup made of pond lilly roots and bittersweet 
roots and bark. Sweeten the syrup well with loaf sugar. 
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FOR THE PILES. 
Take one ounce of garget root, two ounces of burdock 
~ Foot, two ounces yellow dock root, and one ounce of winter- 
green leaves. Pour on one pint of boiling water and let it 
_ Steep two hours. Then strain and add four ounces of loaf 
sugar, one-half ounce saltpetre, and one-half pint of gin. 
Take three table-spoonfuls a day. Or take four or five pills 
_of white pine turpentine and balsam daily, and annoint with 
sun-flower seed oil, and use injection of bitter-walnut meats 
steeped in warm water, morning and evening. : 
FOR THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE. 
_ Put on pounded rattlesnake master-piece as a poultice— 
shift every two hours. 
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CURE FOR THRUSH. 
‘fake oné ounce nitre, one ounce oil hemlock, one ounce 
hemlock gum, one ounce pikery, one ounce gum arabic, and 
put in one pint fourth-proof brandy. Shake all together, and 
take sixty drops three times a day, before eating. 
