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262 a RECIPES. 
FOR CORNS. 
Bind on cotton wet with spirits turpentine, for twelve or 
- fifteen days ; if not cured repeat it. Light a brimstone match 
~ and let a few drops fall on the corn or wart, which will re 
move them with very little pain or trouble; or mix the juice 
of houseleek with balm or yeast that sticks to the barley, and 
. apply every six hours for eight or ten days, or till the corn is 
cured ; or dry down radish juice to a soft plaster and apply 
it, and renew it as often as it gets dry; or spread beer yeast 
on a Jinen cloth and renew it once a day for six or eight days, 
or until cured. 
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ST. ANTHONY'S DANCE. 
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Pulverize two ounces cranes-bill and put it into one pint 
Molasses. Take one table-spoonful morning and evening. 
_ Drink cider well tinctured with saltpetre, say one-fourth ounce 
to a quart. 
SCARLET FEVER. 
Take one-half ounce saffron and one-half ounce marigold 
flowers, steep in rum, sweeten well with loaf sugar, and give 
one tea-spoonful, warm, every two hours, three times. Then 
give, to a child, one tea-spoonful of the Indian Physic every 
hour till it operates freely. Then give one-half tea-spoonful 
of the Slumbering Drops before eating for two days; after. 
that give the Health Bitters as you did the Drops. Bathe 
with the Pain Extractor after you give the Physic. Reduce 
the Pain Extractor one-half with vinegar or water before 
bathing. Keep the patient comfortably warm. 
