RECIPES. 265 — 
DYSENTERY, 
_ Take four ounces white oak bark, four ounces white pine 
well rossed, six ounces small mullin leaves, and boil them all 
in two quarts new milk. Take out the bark and leaves and 
put inPsay one-half ounce pulverized alum. Give-one wine- 
glassful every two hours, and give an “injection of the same. 
Never fails to cure. 
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FOR WOMEN’S SORE NIPPLES. 
Chew slippery elm bark, rub the nipples with it, att lay 
it on. It will cure in three days. 
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=" PAIN IN THE SIDE 
“Fry oat-meal i in salt and vinegar, and put it on asa poul- 
tice. 
* FOR SICK HEAD-ACHE. 
Take four ounces Evan’s root, boil in one quart water, 
strain, and add one drachm nitric acid and two ounces” loaf 
sugar. Take one large table-spoonful three times a day, fast- 
ing. 
KING’S. EVIL. 
~ Make a strong tea of king’s evil roots and tops, and drink 
freely‘of it. Pound the roots and tops, and Jay them on the 
tumor from time to time till cured. 
POULTICE TO BRING SWELLINGS TO A HEAD, 
Moisten rye-meal and lay it on as a poultice. 
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