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RECIPES. 251 
FOR TYPHUS FEVER: : 
Shower with cold water even in the most deranged state. 
- After showering rub dry and put into a warm bed. Or take 
one and one-half ounce powdered saltpetre, and one and one- 
half ounce oil of vitriol mixed in a cup; place on a hot iron 
and put in nitre, and add one drachm or one-sixth part of the 
vitriol at a time; stir it with a pipe while mixing; shift the 
cup in different parts of the room to prevent contagion. 
TO COUNTERACT INWARD. POISON. 
Take one ounce ground mustard in one gill warnr water, 
and after it vomits give one gill of new milk and two table- 
spoonfuls of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic every 
hour till it operates. Drink sweet milk freely and eat raw 
onions, and give a little Health Bitters. 
SALT RHEUM. 
Take four ounces cohosh root, four ounces frost weed, four , 
ounces Evan’s root, and boil in two quarts water. You may | 
add two ounces burdock seeds. Strain and drink it freely, 
and wash the afflicted part with the same. After bathing, — 
“rub on mutton tallow. 
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STIFF JOINTS. 
Beat eggs and water well together, and bathe and wash 
the afflicted part every two or three hours till well. 
"SWIMMING OF THE HEAD. 
Put a poultice of powdered bittersweet root around the neck, 
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