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FOR WEAK EYES. 
Take one gill strong old hyson tea made without boiling, 
one-half gill French brandy, strain in, bottle and cork tight ; 
apply this wash six or eight times a day as you please. Or 
boil chamomile flowers in sweet milk and wash the eyes sev- 
eral times a day, quite warm, till it cures. © Bi 
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FOR THE ASTHMA. 
Take the bark of the root of choke-cherry tree, make a 
strong tea of it, sweeten with molasses, and add rum, so as 
to preserve it. Take one-half wine-glassful three times a ~ 
day, fasting. Or take one pint sweet oil, one pint molasses, 
one pint rum, and take a wine-glassful morning, noon and” 
night, fasting. 
FOR SORE BREASTS AND COUGH. 
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Dissolve one pound white sugar candy and one-fourth 
pound garlic in three pints white wine vinegar, and simmer — 
it over a slow fire to one pint. Bathe the breast with it. 
For a cough, take one tea-spoonful at night as you retire, 
TO REDUCE A CANCER TUMOR. 
Lay on rennet moistened with vinegar. 
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BLOATING. 
Drink freely of Indian hemp tea made of the bark. 
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; FILM ON THE EYES. 
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Pat in new honey and burnt alum. _ 
