; RECIPES. 267 
CHRONIO RHEUMATISM. 
Take three pounds red beets, three ounces blood root, one 
and a half ounces mandrake root, boil all well together, 
strain, : id boil down thick; then add one ‘ounce spirits of 
camphor, one ounce strong essence of hemlock, and bathe 
three times a day for six or eight days. Then steep or boil 
four ounces prickly ash bark, and four ounces princes’ pine, 
in one quart water to a pint, and add one pint good cider. 
Take a wine-glassful three times a day, one-half hour before 
— If costive, move the dowels: with the Indian ee 
or prepared salts. = 
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Mix one-fourth ounce ‘pulverized wild es one ounce 
bitter walnut meats, pulverized, and two ounces honey. 
Steep them in one-half pint water, strain, and gargle the 
throut with it. If the throat is swelled, add one ounce black 
currants and steep with the rest.» tote ag 
TO STOP VOMITING. 
Take four ounces. strawberry leaves, one ounce pounded 
nutmeg, steep in one pint water, strain, and add one-half 
pound.Joaf sugar. Give one table-spoonful every hour till 
TO RAISE A MOISTURE ON THE SKIN. 
Steep one-eighth pound dried smartweed in one quart of 
water, strain, and add one pound sugar and one gill gin, 
Take one table-spoonful every two hours till it takes effect. 
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