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FOR ERYSIPELAS. 
Take one or two oitnces of epsom salts and as much loaf 
sugar, and twelve grains of saltpetre to every ounce of salts, 
and dissolve them in water. Give as large a dose as the 
patient can bear, so as to operate briskly, every other night. 
Make a strong tea of burdock and sarsaparilla roots, and bal- _ 
sam boughs, equal parts, and drink freely of it. Wash with 
weak alum water, arid if swelled bad, wet cotton cloths with 
it and lay it on any Diet ini I sometimes dissolve 
ai salts i in am. 
_ FOR HOARSENESS, ” ee es 
Take eee ounces of epsom. salts, three ounces sj pe 
one drachm saltpetre, dissolve all together in one gill of hot 
water, and take one table-spoonful when you go to bed. Re- 
peat the dose every two hours till it operates briskly as a 
physic. Afterwards drink a tea made of burdock roots and 
balsam boughs, equal parts, and black cherry tree bark, one- 
fourth as much as either, and chew loaf sugar freely. 
MEDICINES THAT CREATE TUBULAR CONSUMPTION. 
Todine, calomel, morphene, opium, and lobelia. Also, 
coffee, tea, tobacco, thorn-apples, and night shade, creates dis- 
ease and death. 
SUMMER COMPLAINT. 
ee white of three eggs in one gill of vinegar, beat 
well together, and give a table-spoonful every hour. Tt may 
be sweetened with loaf sugar. 
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