RECIPES. 961 
INTERMITTENT, CHILL, AND AGUE FEVER. 
Take eight ounces plantain roots and tops, four ounces — 
mountain mint or balm, and bojl in one quart water, strain 
and add one pint brandy. When you have the symptoms 
take a tea-spoonful, and repeat the dose every fifteen minutes 
till it vomits or breaks up the fever. Repeat the dose two or 
three successive days when the fit comes on, and it will effect 
a cure, Take a little of the Indian or Mandrake and Blood 
Root Physic. After that take a tea-spoonful of the Health 
Bitters three times a day. This course of medicine will break 
‘up the fit in any climate. 
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VEGETABLE PHYSIC. 
Take four ounces mandrake, two ounces blood root, one 
ounce butternut buds, one ounce Epsonr salts, one-half drachm 
oil of anise, all pulverised and put in one pint India molasses. 
Take one tea-spoonful every hour. This physic acts power- 
fully on the liver. 
SPIN AL COMPLAINTS. 
Take one and one-half ounce powder burnt clam. sills 
one-half ounce sugar of milk, one-half ounce sulphur, pulver- 
ized together; put them in one-half pint wine. Take one 
tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting. “ 
TO COUNTERACT SALTPETRE WHEN TAKEN BY MISTAKE. 
Drink sweet milk freely and profusely. It will counteract 
camphene ‘or almost any inward poison. You may mix onion 
juice with it, which makes it better. 
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