276 2S RECIPES. 
FOR SORE EYES. 
Take white vitriol as big as a pea and twice the quantity | 
of loaf sugar; boil an egg; take out the yolk, then put the 
sugar and vitriol in place of the yolk, press them hard till the 
juice is out and apply it to the eye at night. Or boil one 
pint barley in two quarts water till it is soft, then take it ont, 
pound it, put it back again and put in as much turnips; boil 
them soft and strain, then wet a cloth of four or five thick- 
nesses and lay it on the eyes at night as you go to bed. 
This practice is good to take out inflammation and cure broken 
breasts. 2% 
FOR CORNS. 
Take four ounces copper filings, put them in one-half pint 
rain water and one-half pint vinegar ; let it stand eight days 
so as to turn thick, wet a cloth with it and bind it on for three 
_ or four days; shave the corn well before you lay on the cloth. 
TO PREVENT FITS. 
_ Palverize deer’s A fine and make a tea of it and it will 
prevent fits. 
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FOR, CORNS, 
Shave the corns akin, and as you go to bed wet it well with 
spirits turpentine. In the morning, wet it with fasting spit- 
tle, and lay on a codfish skin. Follow up the same for three 
days. Then lay on a plaster made of beeswax and Burgundy 
pitch, equal paris, and one-eighth as much of mutton tallow 
as both, simmer together, and spread it on suet skin. 
