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. CURE FOR CAN CERS. 
Take one ounce potash, two ounces plantain root, two 
ounces crow-foot, one ounce skoke root, or dry-down sorrel on 
pewter. Lay either on as a plaster. Tt will eat out the can- 
cer. Then make a salve of skoke berries and put it on. — 
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*TO CURE THRUSH. 
Mix one-half ounce camphor, one-half ounce oil of hem- 
lock, two ounces spirits of nitre, and one pint port wine. 
Give a tea-spoonful three — a ee and bathe the throat 
with the same. : 
’ LINIMENT FOR RHEUMATISM AND SHOOTING PAINS. 
Take one quart of brandy, one ounce oil origanum, two 
ounces camphor gum, one ounce oil of hemlock, one ounce ~ 
gum myrrh, and one-fourth ounce African cayenne, Put them 
all together, and take one tea-spoonful in cold water three 
times a day, and bathe with the same morning and evening, 
or when you feel the pain. . 
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$60: CURE CORNS, 
Mix ten grains of chloride, twelve grains of the tincture of 
iodine, one-half ounce tincture of iron, four drachms of anti- 
mony, and four grains of corosive sublimate. Put them all 
in one-half pint of alcohol. Wet the corn with it, and when 
killed, spread a plaster of turpentine and lay it on. 
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"TO CURE SPIDER CANCERS AND RING-WORMS. 
- Steep plug tobacco in spirits turpentine, and aunoint the 
afflicted part with it from time to time till cured. 
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