228 RECIPES. 
FOR WORMS. 
Grate sweet-flag fine and put in molasses, say one-half tea- 
spoonful of the sweet-flag to one of molasses for a child, and 
grown persons in proportion; then give a smart physic, and 
grate one ounce wild turnip, and pulverise one-eighth ounce 
Jobelia seed, and put them both in eight ounces honey and 
_ one pint molasses ; steep them all together and make a syrup 
of them, and give a tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting; 
to children, less, in proportion to age. 
TO KILL WORMS. 
Take a , tea-spoontul of the ashes of white ash and walnut 
bark, equal parts burnt together; put them in one-half pint of 
brest or sweet milk, and sweeten well with loaf sugar if the 
child is sick, and give a table spoonful. every thirty minutes ; 
-if the child is able to be about, you may put the ashes in one 
gill of molasses, and give a large tea-spoonful every half hour. 
FOR THE DIABETES. 
Make a tea of white pine bark, hemlock bark, spikenard 
root and fever bush, equal parts, and drink it freely. Also 
use acids freely. , 
FOR COUGHS. 
Put one-half ounce Seneca snake root in one pint of giv. 
Take one table-spoonful three times a day, and if not cured 
when gone, continue taking. 
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FOR CORNS. 
Put on dry cotton and keep it on till cured. 
