204 RECIPES. 
FOR SPRAINS. 
_ Hold the part in cold water two hours; or apply cloths 
wet with cold water of four or five thicknesses—change them 
when warm ; or bathe it in erab-apple juice; or bathe it in 
brandy, water and vinegar, equal parts; or boil bran. in 
wine vinegar toa poultice, and apply it warm—renew it every 
twelve hours ; or boil eight ounces of castile soap, eight ounces 
of salt and two ounces of white pine turpentine in one gal- 
lon of chamber-lye. Put the part sprained in this one-half 
“hour and foment with it every six hours. Keep on a cloth 
wet in it. Or take one ounce of turpentine, one-half of 
wheat flour and the yolk of two eggs, mix together, and 
spread a plaster and lay it on. Or bathe with the Pain Ex- 
_ tractor, three times a day, and keep a cloth wet with 
it on the sprain nights, This will help and cure weakness 
and weak joints. If the limb or joint is weak, bathe in beef 
brine. 
FOR A CHRONIGAL HEAD-ACHE. 
Soak your feet in warm salt and water, one hour before 
you go to bed, for two or three weeks; or wear tender hem- 
lock leaves under the feet, and’ change once a day; or pour 
one gallon of cold water on your head every morning in 4 
slender stream ; wet a cloth of four thicknesses with alcohol 
tinctured with nitre ; or boil wood betony in new milk, strain 
it, and breakfast on this for five or six weeks. 
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FOR THE SHINGLES, 
Drink sea water every morning for eight days ; or salt and 
water. After the fifth day bathe in, and the first night take 
a dose of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic. 
