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. CURE FOR CANCERS. 
Take one ounce muriatic acid, six grains chloruret of gold, 
and mix them well together, - Anoint the cancer often with 
it. Ifa tumor, spread a little on cotton or lint. If raw, re-. 
peat from time to time once a day till cured, or poultice with 
yellow dock root. Wash the cancer with a tea made of the. 
same, and drink the tea freely. Take a gentle Vegetable 
Physic every eight or ten days. 
FOR DROPSY. 
~ Take four ounces horseradish, eight ounces rhustard, eight _ 
ounces lignum vite shavings, two ounces Indian hemp, four 
ounces milkweed root, four ounces dwarf elder berries or 
roots, two ounces juniper berries, two ounces balsam flowers, 
four ounces white pine bark—bruise all together, and put in 
two gallons cider ; simmer well. together, and take a wine- 
jlassful three times a day, fasting. Take a gentle Vegetable 
tysie to — the bowels Seas 
B: ALDNESS. 
Take four ounces pulverized lobelia, sak. ouneés brandy : 
* four ounces sweet. oil, put all in a bottle, and shake together 
for two or three days. Bathe the head with it twice a day. 
Before bathing, add one-half drachm_ oil of lavender, and 
strain it. \ 
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TO CURE ALMOST ANY SORE, 
Boil pitch pine buds and leaves in milk, and bathe with it 
twice a day. Pound the buds and boughs and lay them < on 
the sore will cure when nothing else will. 
