RECIPES. ’ 247 
: DYSENTERY. é 
Steep : four ounces dysentery root over a slow fire in one 
, pint water, strain, and mix in one ounee browned flour. 
Take one table-spoonful every two hours. It can Be mixed 
or put in one pint port wine, for weak, delicate a me 
taken as above, / 
MENSES, (00 MUCH OR TOO LITTLE.) — 
"Take four ounces of the roots of white cohosh, steep in 
one pint water, and put in one pint port wine, Take one 
table-spoonful every four hours, and in extreme cases take it 
every two hours. Use the red cohosh in the same way in 
cases of stoppage of the menses. — 
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_FOR BILIOUS COLIC. 
Take two ounces mullin seed, one ounce mandrake root, 
one-half ounce blood root, steep them altogether, strain, and — 
add two ounces epsom salts, one drachm saltpetre, two ounces 
sugar, and one-half gill good vinegar. Shake all together, 
and take one table-spoonful every hour for eight hours. If 
no relief, give an injection of tobacco tea and linseed oil. 
RHEUMATIC LINIMENT, 
Take one and a half pints alcohol, one ounce oil of spike, 
one ounce oil of hartshorn, one ounce camphor gum, one 
ounce oil of hemlock, one ounce oil origanum, one ounce 
camphor, shake them all together, and add one ounce alum, 
one ounce saltpetre, dissolved in vinegar. — Shake it Nye Benes 
gether and bathe with it. 
