200... ~ _ RECIPES. 
3 THE WHITES. 
- Use light diet and moderate, constant exercise. Sleep — 
sparingly, but never lying on the back. Take a gentle physic 
of twenty. grains of rheubarb and one-half ounce of salts; 
or boil one ounce of white hollyhock in a pint of milk and 
water and one ounce of sugar. Adda tea-spoonful of balm 
of gilead or of balsam. Drink this every morning. It sel- 
dom fails. Or boil one ounce of nettle flowers and two 
drachms of cinnamon with one pint of milk, and drink it 
night and morning. Or take Venice turpentine, flour and 
sugar, equal parts, into small pills, and take three or four 
morning and evening. This cures most pains in the back. 
Or take wheat brand water morning and evening. This sel- 
dom fails. 
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FOR A WHITLOW. 
Apply molasses as a poultice : or a poultice of moistened 
bread, and shift it once a day ; or a plaster of ground ivy. 
‘FOR INFLAMED LEGS. 
Apply Fuller’s earth, moistened with cold tea, spread on 
_ brown paper, ‘and renew it when dry; or boiled turnips 
mixed with mutton suet; or rub them with plantain juice, 
warm. 
UVULA RELAXED. 
Bruise the veins of cabbage leaves and lay it hot on the 
crown of the head. Repeat it every two hours till cured. 
Or gargle with a decoction of water-dock ; or with an infu- 
sion of mustard seed. 
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