218 RECIPES. 
_BILIOUS PILIS. 
Take two ounces of white ash bark (bark of the root,) 
one of poplar (bark of the root,) one ounce mandrake root, 
one ounce spotted alder bark, one ounce butternut buds, and 
boil in two quarts soft water to a hard jelly. Add one-half 
ounce pulverized saltpetre. Pill it with flour and sugar. 
One to four pills as large as a pea is a dose. 
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_ Take the white of two eggs and an equal part of rock salt, 
pulverized, and one-fourth ounce of wheat flour, mix them 
well together to a salve, then spread a plaster as large as 4 
dollar on soft leather, shave the hair off the crown of the 
head, and lay it on ; | Tepeat it from time to time till it creates 
_ aktve TO CURE FEVER SORES. 
Take strained honey, balsam firr, white pine turpentine, 
salt butter and mutton tallow, equal parts, and rub or stir 
them together till they become a salve—then dress the wound 
with it once a day till cured. When you dress the wound. 
wash or clean it out with warm castile soap suds. 
FOR DEAFNESS, RHEUMATISM, AND SORE THROAT. 
Wear brown paper next to the skin made of flax or tow; 
wear it under flannel, on the head, and around the neck. Or 
ee eee smoke, and shut ones maces 
and nose for a moment or two. — 
