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RECIPES. . 259 
CURE FOR THE ASTHMA. 
Pulverize and dry skunk’s cabbage root, and take one-half 
tea-spoonful when going to bed; or steep the roots in water 
and take a wine-glassful—follow up taking it and it will 
cure ; or take one ounce camphor gum, one ounce firr bal- 
sam, four ounces honey, and put them in one pint alcohol, 
(95 per cent.) Shake them well together till dissolved, 
Take a vea-epooniae ae times a day. “Shake it well before 
taking. 
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FOR RHEUMATISM. 
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Take one-half bushel of white beech bark, ground, one- 
half bushel tamarack bark, one-half bushel balsam bark, put 
them all together, and boil them well. Strain and boilfit- 
down thick. Add one ounce spirits turpentine, boil it to a 
= and put it on the afflicted pari. 
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FOR ‘THE AGUE GRAVEL. 
Take one-half pint of pas seeds, (shell them,) one- 
fourth ounce bath root, pulverize them fine, ‘and mix it with 
the white of an egg. Divide it into six pills, and give one 
every hour. 
- FOR THE LOCKJAW WHEN HURT. 
Make free use of the Health Bitters, or take camphor gum 
in hot water, or both, freely. Use spirits freely. 
FOR INFLAMED EYES: 
Scald mullin leaves in vinegar and lay on asa poultiee, 
Repeat it every three hours till cured. 
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