270 - _ ‘RECIPES. : 
TO TEST THE CONSUMPTION ON THE LIVER OR LUNGS. 
Put their urine in a clear glass bottle, hang it in a warm 
place, and if on the fights a white froth will rise—if on the 
liver, a dark substance will settle; and when they lift their 
hand it will hurt on the left side—if on the liver, it will hurt 
on the right side, 
ROSE CANCER, 
Take eight ounces tobacco ashes, twelve ounces yarrow, 
soak them two hours, strain, and add one quart white lye 
made of black ash bark. Boil them down thick, and anoint 
with it often. 
CANCER IN THE MOUTH, 
Boil two ounces plantain, two ounces rue, two ounces 
oney, one ounce alum, put all in one pint vinegar, and gar- 
gle with it. => 
DIABETES, 
Take two ounces ginger, two ounces anise seed, boil in 
one pint wine, and sweeten with loaf sugar. Take one table- 
spoonful every two hours. Or boil one-half ounce alum in 
one pint milk, and drink it. Or put one ounce spruce and 
one ounce tamarack gum in one pint brandy, and -= one 
table-spoonful three times a day. 
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FOR EAR-ACHE, 
Diop one drop of pickerel oil in the ear; or broil a slice of 
fat salt pork and let two or three drops fall in the ear while 
hot, gives immediate relief. The ‘sap of black ash js good. 
