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236 RECIPES, 
SALVE FOR BURNS. 
Take wild lavender, (green,) elder bark, chamomile and 
parsley, equal parts, and stew them in mutton tallow—add 
to it beeswax, rosin and white daton, equal parts. If of long 
standing, pound mutton suet and chalk well together, dress 
the sore with it twice a day, and wash it with castile soap. 
FOR THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE, 
_ Pound green hoarhound and squeeze out the juice—take a 
table-spoonful three times a day, and put the pounded herb 
to the wound. Change it twice a day, and drink a spoonful 
of sweet oil every night when going to bed. 
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TO CURE MENSES, (OBSTRUCTED.) 
Make a strong tea of pennyroyal and put to one gill of 
the tea one tea-spoonful of pulverized black pepper, and take 
it aa you go to bed. Soak the feet in hot water tinctured 
well with salt and saleratus, before taking the tea. 
THORN-APPLE TEA, 
7 May be used in cancers, sores, rheumatism, and asthma. 
_It makes a good ointment for the piles. Smoke the roots for 
the asthma. It has cured when all other remedies failed. 
SALVE TO GURE OLD SORE LEGS. 
Take the bark of shrub maple, boil it to a strong liquid, 
and wash with-it. Boilsome down to a salve and dress with 
it, Wash the sore with the liquid every time it is dressed. 
