RECIPES, 249 
TO KILL WORMS. 
Mash gunpowder fine and put it in molasses, and give one- 
half tea-spoonful to a child. If needed, repeat the dose. Or 
-give the child a small crust of bread, then give a tablggspoon- 
fal of ram pwith one-half drachm of alum. Or ary angle- 
table-spoonful at atime. Or steep elecampane roots in wine, 
. and give a table-spoonful morning and evening. Or give a 
_ tea-spoonful of runnet in molasses for several mornings, to 
both women and children. 
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FOR THE RHEUMATISM AND GENERAL DEBILITY. 
Put four cunces of garget root in one quart of good gin, 
shake it well together for twenty-four hours, and take a tea- 
spoonful night and morning, fasting, for ten or twelve days. 
Take a little of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic. 
GRAVEL. 
“Take ‘four ounces hearts-ease and. two ounces of the roots 
of Jacob’s ladder, make into a strong tea and ‘drink freely of 
it till cured. 
FLUOR ALBUS, 
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Rub two ounces Peruvian or white oak bark and one ounce 
quick lime together, and pour on thirty ounces lime water. 
Let it stand twelve hours and give one table-spoonful of the 
preparation morning and evening. Or make a strong tea of 
lady-mantle, and take one-half pint morning and evening. 
If the case is hard, give injections of thie same. 
