RECIPES, 263 
TO OURE SHRUNKEN CORDS, CANCERS OR STIFF JOINTS. 
Take four ounces fresh butter from a heifer’s first milking, 
four ounces white beth root, one ounce bee’s-wax, one ounce 
turpentine and four ounces tobacco; boil the beth root and 
tobacco well together, strain and simmer it down thick; add 
the butter, turpentine and wax, and simmer to an ointment; 
add one and one-half ounce spirits of wine. Anoint the 
cancer, swelling, stiff joint, shrunken cords, or a woman's 
swelled breasts, 
SALVE FOR FRESH WOUNDS. es 
_ Take four ounces spikenard root, four ounces birth root, 
_ four ounces bark of the root of dog wood, four ounces moose 
wood, boiled in one quart water, well strained and simmered 
down; add one-half pound yellow pine ‘turpentine while 
warm, and stir together. Dress the wound with it twice a 
day. 
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_ THRUSH. 
Steep four ounces black currants in one pint water; strain 
and add four ounces loaf sugar, one-half drachm oil of hem- _ 
lock cut ‘in alcohol, and mix all together, Bathe the throat 
with the Pain Extractor, and gargle the throat with the syrup 
and swallow a little. After bathing three or four times, put 
on a strengthening plaster and wear it till well. 
STIFF JOINTS, SPRAINS OR BRUISES. 
Simmer one-half pound blossoms and buds of robin roe 
tain in one-half pound buttér; strain and bottle, and anoint 
the affected part with it. 
