RECIPES, 329 
. FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG. 
Wash the wound immediately with warm vinegar and tepid 
water; dry it and then apply a few drops of muriatic acid, 
which will destroy the poison of the saliva or neutralize it, 
and the cure is effected. Physic the patient well every three 
days with the Indian Physic, and dress the wound twice’ a 
day with the Cancer Salve, and cleanse it when dressed with 
castle-soap suds. 
FOR RHEUM ATISM, 
Step one ounce of lobelia in one quart of strong cider 
vinegar and bathe the afflicted part with it oe te 
or three times a day. . 
< FOR BURNS. 
Wrap the patint immediately in dry cotton and keep it on 
three or four days without opening it: When opened, dress 
it with pumpkin seed oil, if it is to be had—if not, linseed or _ 
sweet oil constantly—keep it from the air with dry cotton. Or 
plunge the part affected in wheat flour, and keep it covered — 
from the air some minutes—then wrap it up in dry cotton. — s 
EVAN’S OR CHOCOLATE ROOT, 
Is good in consumptive cases and debility—it is better 
than Peruvian bark in the cure of dysentery, diarrhoea, wind 
colic, affections of the stomach, asthma, whites, and flooding. 
It is good in fevers after a proper evacuation, and it may be 
given till the fever is broken. Take one pint of the tea or 
six grains of the powder, and divide it into three equal parts, 
and mix it with honey. It is good for salt rheum and scald _ 
head by <p the tea freely. ‘ 
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