RECIPES. . 233 
FOR CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, INWARD ULCERS, SORES, 
DROPSY, CUTS, OR GREEN WOUNDS. 
Make a strong tea of sassafras (bark of the root) and 
drink it freely for the dropsy or inward ulcers. For outward 
sores, wash the sore, and if it smarts bad wash around it till 
you can bear it, then wet lint or cloths with the tea and dress 
or apply them to the wound, and keep it wet with it. 
FIRR BALSAM, 
Is good for sore nipples, fluor albus, fresh wounds, old 
sores, and weakness in the stomach and urine. 
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FEVER ROOT, 
Is good in typhus and all other fevers—oreates moissure 
without excitement, 
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ELECAMPANE ROOTS, 
- Are good in suppressions of menses, general debility, weak- 
ness of the stomach, dropsy, and is used in coughs. = 
ARROW HEAD. 
The tea of it is good drink, and in case of the bite of a 
mad dog, drink and wash freely with it. 
‘ : FOR CORNS. 
Take white pine turpentine, spread a plaster, and apply, it 
to the corn. Let it stay on till it comes off itself. Three ap- 
plications never er to cure. 
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