210 ae RECIPES, 
TO PUT A WOMAN TO BED EASY AND COMFORTABLE. 
Steep one pound of hog-brake root in one quart of rum, 
and take a table-spoonful twice a day, morning and evening, 
for a week or two before your time. Also take a table-spoon- 
ful of the Indian Physic. once or twice a week, and take a 
tea-spoonful of Slumbering Drops after the Physic operates, 
and every night as you go to bed for eight or ten days before 
and after being confined. Or make a syrup of one pound 
burdock roots, one-half pound of yellow dock, one-fourth 
pound sarsaparilla roots, and steep them in one gallon of 
_ water with one-half pound of balsam boughs. Then strain 
"the syrup, and when cold add two pounds of sugar and one 
quart of good gin or alcohol, with one-fourth pound of juni- 
per berries, bruised, and put in the gin twenty-four hours before 
putting to the syrup. Put all together, and take a tea- 
spoonful or table-spoonful of it, as you can bear it, three 
times a day, before eating, during the time of travail and 
nursing. It will also regulate young and old females, and 
save pain and doctor’s bills. It will regulate males and fe- 
males, cleanse the blood, and prevent all scrofulous com- 
plaints, by adding to it one-half pound of black cherry tree 
bark, It has cured-thousands. 
FEVER SORES. 
Poultice it with Indian meal. Poultice till it comes to a 
head, therr make a plaster of white pine turpentine, hog’s 
lard and beeswax, equal parts. Keep this on till healed. 
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CHAMOMILE. 
“The tea will stop vomiting and bleeding at the stomach. 
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