214 RECIPES. — 
CURE FOR THE ASTHMA. 
Take the bag that holds the musk of a skunk and wind it 
up in the room where the patient lives. Rub it about the 
mouth and nose and smell of it often. If very bad, take 
two or three drops of the musk. This has effected great 
cures. 
ANOTHER, 
Take new-made linseed oil two ounces, loaf sugar two 
ounces, saltpetre one-half ounce, skunk cabbage balls or root 
one-fourth ounce, and pulverize. You may use molasses in- — 
stead of sugar. Mix all together, and give a tea-spoonful 
every hour till relieved. ~Also smoke paper well saturated 
with saltpetre. 
BUTTERNUT. 
Extract from the bark of fifteen or twenty drops. will 
BLACKBERRY ROOT. 
This root mixed with gold-thread and made into a strong 
’ tea, is asure cure for canker in the mouth and stomach. 
Wash the mouth with it and take a table-spoonful inwardly 
daily will help in the gravel and dysentery, taken frequently. 
FOR THE DYSENTERY. 
Take equal parts Drown leaf, mallowil yarrow, pepper 
mint, sweet golden rod, and make a tea of them. Drink 4 
wine-glassful once an sei Or white pine bark boiled in 
milk and water. Take a wine-glassful three times a day- 
