264 RECIPES. 
THE WHITES. 
Take four ounces red hollyhock flowers, four ounces bitter- 
sweet, four ounces yarrow, four ounces wickum, four ounces 
Nicaragua shavings, four ounces black cherry bark, and boil 
well together in two quarts water; strain and add one pound 
loaf sugar, one-half pint fourth proof French brandy, one- 
half ounce alum, one-half ounce saltpetre, and bottle. Take 
one table-spoonful three times'a day, one-half" hour before 
eating. Keep the bowels easy by using the Indian Physic, 
and take some Wine Bitters or Slumbering Drops. 
BLIND PILES. 
Take one ounce balsam firr, one-half ounce balsam of life, 
two ounces fire-weed buds, one-half ounce balsam copavia, 
one ounce bitter walnut meats, and put in port wine, or drop- 
. ped on sugar. Take twenty drops every morning and eve- 
ning, fasting—and give injections of garget root tea, sweet 
oil, and one-eighth ounce sal nitre. 
FEMALE WEAKNESS. 
‘Take two ounces knot grass root, three ounces plantain 
root, two ounces hemp tops, two ounces fire-weed tops, four 
ounces black cherry bark, two ounces burdock root, four 
ounces spignard, four ounces sarsaparilla, boil all in two 
quarts water, strain, and add one pound loaf sugar, one-half 
pint brandy, one-half ounce saltpetre. Take one table-spoon- 
ful three times a day. cua es 
ITCHING OR CRACKED*HEELS. 
Rub them with red onion juice till cured. ©” 
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