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RECIPES. 275 
Take two ounces black pepper, two ounces soot, eight 
ounces salt butter—steep all together, clean the head with 
castile soap suds, and anoint the head with the salve once a 
day till cured. Give a gentle physic every eight or ten days, 
such as the Reformed Botanic or mandrake. 
FOR CANKER. 
Make a tea of marsh rosemary roots, called by some thrift or 
sea lavender. Sweeten with honey or loaf sugar. “Wash 
the mouth, gargle the throat, and swallow a Mie. It is used 
with success. es ; se 
~*~ _ ANOTHER. og 
_ Make a tea of sage, rose leaves and blue violets, putin a little 
abimi, and sweeten with honey. Wash the afflicted part 
owith it. 
TO STOP BLOOD. 
Make a strong. ten pl peppwendeberky wah the wound with 
its of turpentine: covered with flour, and bour 4 oa ate 
answer the purpose. 
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FOR COUGHS. 
Take mountain ash bark and moose moss, and make a tea 
‘ of them; take one-half nea night and matin’ 
few days. « 
FOR COLDS pom ae meg 
Make a strong tea of liverwort and drink it freely. 
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