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260 . - RECIPES, 
TO CURE BURNS. 
Mix sifted Indian meal with milk and make a poultice of 
it. Make holes in the poultice and fill them with cat grease. 
Put a little on the face of the poultice and renew it a few 
times. 
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FOR DEAFNESS. 
ies: 
Take house leek juice and honey, equal parts, well baked 
in a vial corked up tight, with a hole in the ‘cork, and sur- 
rounded with bread. Drop two drops in the ear as you go - 
to bed. 
CANCER. : é 
Boil sweet oil in a new-tinned copper vessel twenty-four 
hours moderately, until it has the appearance of an ointment. 
Rub the part afflicted, and it will effect a cure in fifteen or 
twenty days. 
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FOR THE BITE OF A DOG OR SERPENT. 
Take the yolk of an egg, one-half ounce honey and mix 
well together; grate over it dragons-root and mix in flour 
sufficient for a poultice. Apply it two or three times. 
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COLIC. 
Make a strong tea of blue flag root and take a wine-glass- 
ful every hour till cured; or give fifteen drops oil of anise on 
sugar, every thirty minutes till relieved; or give one table- 
Spoonful camphor in brandy or rum, once in thirty minutes. 
