248 REOIPES. 
- CONSUMPTIVE SYRUP. 
Take hyssop, balm, Evan’s root, lungwort, liverwort, and 
water cresses, eight ounces of each. Steep them in one gal- 
lon of WKter to two quarts, Add two quarts of brandy, two 
pounds honey, one pound raisins, two drachms ‘pulverized 
nutmeg, two drachms gum myrrh, two drachms mace, and 
two drachms cloves—steep it down to five pints, and bottle 
it. Take a wine-glassful three times a day, before eating. 
Or take one tea-spoonful of burdock leaf juice three times.a 
day, before eating ; or diet on carrots almost entirely—cook 
them as suits you best—for three months, 
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FOR THR ASTHMA. 
Take four ounces onions, four ounces honey, one pint water, 
one-half ounce saltpetre, steep and make into a syrup. Take 
one tea-spoonful three times a day. 
. Take one-eighth ounce oil of peppermint, one-fourth ounce 
' oil of sassafras, one-half ounce spirits of layender, one-half 
pint alcohol, and one ounce of the Tincture of Life. Take 
one tea-spoonful for a dose. : 
TO EAT OUT PROUD FLESH. 
Put on pulverized ragon’s-tooth. Tt will destroy all 
sided: sores, 
TINCTURE OF LIFE. 
Take t two ounces of gum myrrh, one-eighth ounce African 
cayenne ‘one quart alcohol, and shake them all together. _ . 
used in fits, add one-cighth ounce oil of lavender. ne 
