RECIPES. ; 241 
FOR TUMORS IN THE BREAST. 
Take spikenard, comfrey roots, yellow oak bark and to- 
bacco leaves, boil them to a strong liquid in water, and wash 
the tumor with it. Add to some of the liquor, mutton tal- 
low, beeswax and rosin—simmer them to a salve, and dress 
the tumor with it once a day. Take a mandrake root physic 
as often as once in two weeks. A dose of the mandrake root 
pulverized is one spoonfal. 
= ; FOR NUMB PAISY. 
Bathe ‘the. benumbed part with hot salt and neki or the 
Pain Extractor; put the feet and legs in hot mustard water, 
and give camphor gum in hot water, eight or ten drops of 
the oil of anise, one tea-spoonful every ten or fifteen minutes ; 
keep them wrapped up warm over the tub of hot water, and 
give a table-spoonful of Slumbering Drops every three hours, 
with a little mutton soup soon after; rub the arms and legs ~ 
with flannel cloths, and give a gentle physic. I ed the 
Indian Physic. It seldom fails effecting a cure. 
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FOR DROPSY. 
Take two ounces milkweed root, two ounces perc: aie 
two ounces burdock, two ounces juniper berries, all pounded 
or pulverized, put in one quart of good gin. Take a table- 
spoonful three times a day, fasting. 
TO MAKE THE TINCTURE OF LIFE. 5 
Take six ounces rectified spirits of wine, one ounce origa- 
num, one ounce Hungary water, one-half ounce . spirits of 
lavender, and cut them all together. 
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