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POULTICE FOR SWELLINGS AND BRUISED BLOOD. 
Make a poultice of spikenard, sarsaparilla and elder leaves 
or bark, boil them in water till soft, spread the poultice, and 
grate on it one wake-robbin root. . Apply it warm, and keep 
applying one after the other till the bruise is out. 
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FOR WEAKNESS IN THE STOMACH, — 
Make a strong tea of balsam bark, and to every quart add. 
one-half pint of good brandy and one-half pint. of molasses. 
Take a table-spoonful morning and evening, fast Take 
tooth-ache weed, pyrola, white pine, and white-wood bark, 
equal part, four ounces, and boil them in one quart of water. 
Then strain and add one-half pint of good rum. Take one- — 
half gill three times a day. te 
CHOLERA MORBUS. 
Burn cork to a coal, pulverize it, and mix it with milk and 
water, or sweetened water. Give a ———_-* once am 
hour for three or four hours, or until cured. 
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CONSUMPTIVE COUGH. 
Make a strong tea of yellow lilly root, strain it, and put 
one pint molasses to two quarts of the tea, and one-half pint 
new rum, Bottle it, and take a wine-glassful of the syrup 
every two hours. The root pulverized and mixed bales mo- 
easement é 
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“SMART WEED, 
Used as a poultice will reduce swellings, and used as a tea 
will break up fevers. 
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