256 RECIPES. 
AN EASY PHYSIC. 
Fill a pint cup with barberry bark, simmer it one hour, and 
_ take one-half gill of this every four hours till it operates. It 
does not distress the patient. Or add to the barberry, elder 
_ bark, flowers or berries, and burdock root. Steep them as 
- aboye. Strain, and put in one ounce epsom salts and one 
- drachm saltpetre. Take a wine-glassful as you go to bed, 
and one in the a if no operation. 
FOR RHEUMATISM, 
Boil beech bark tea down to a plaster, and lay it on the 
_ part affected ; or boil red pepper in strong vinegar, and bathe 
the part afflicted with it thoroughly every night at bed-time; 
or anoint the joints with black snake’s oil, before the fire, 
twenty minutes night and morning for a week. 
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SORE ‘MOUTH, THROAT, AND STOMACH. 
‘Take one ounce sage, one ounce burnt alum, one ounce 
burnt or parched egg shells, two ounees loaf sugar, one ounce 
honey, one ounce bitter walnut meats, pulverize all together, 
and put in one quart water. Steep, strain, and bottle tight. 
Wash and gargle the throat, and swallow a little, two or 
Ape times a sae - 
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FOR INFLAMMATION IN WOUNDS. 
Simmer white swamp moss in vinegar and put it on the 
part affected, as a poultice—when cold renew. Continue this 
application for four or six hours, and bathe in the same for @ 
day or two. Or make a poultice of snake-weed and ae, 
ahd apply it as above described. 
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