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198 |‘ RECIPES. » 
FOR HOARSENESS, 
Rub the soles of the feet before the fire with garlic and 
lard well beaten together over night, for two or three nights ; 
or take a pint of cold water laying down ; or instead of sup- 
_ ping, eat an apple and drink one-half pint of water ; or swal- 
low the juice of radishes slowly ; or take a spousal of sage 
juice morning and evening; or a tea-spoonful of conserve of 
roses every night; or fifteen drops of balsam of sulphur, 
which is eight parts of olive oil and one part of sulphur, 
boiled well together in sugar. 
VIOLENT COLIC. 
Apply warm flannels soaked in spirits of wine; or im- 
merge up to the breast in a warm bath; or take a decoction 
of the seeds of dill in olive oil and ene and then take a 
piece of bread dipped in water; or take twenty drops of the 
oil of anise in one-half gill of rea pepper tea every hour for 
three hours. Seldom fails. 
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“TO DRAW OUT THORNS, SPLINTERS AND BONES. 
Apply nettle roots and salt bruised together as a poultice. 
Or — and balsam firr spread on leather. 
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WORMS. ae 
Take a spoonful of salt in a glass of water every morning ; 
or take one and a half drachms of saltpetre in broth; or 4 
spoonful of spearmint juice evenings ; or of lemon juice; of 
a glass of onion water ; or boil one ounce of dried sage, one- 
~ half ounce of alum and one eighth ounce of salt, in one pint 
of sweet milk. Give one wine-glassful morning and evening. 
