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two hours, The same will cure inward or outward | 
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RECIPES. _ 277 
Take four ounces alum, four ounces vinegar, four ounces 
honey, and pulverize all together; add four ounces wheat 
flour, make a plaster of it, lay it on and change it once a day. — 
Or pulverize one ounce good gunpowder, the white of three 
eggs, beat them well together; put this on as a plaster, and 
keep it on till raw; then poultice it with rotten sour apples 
for a few days; then put on any good salve. Or take four 
ounces yellow dock root, two ounces bark of bittersweet, root, _ 
four ounces carrots, two ounces dogwood bark, scrape them __ 
fine and simmer all thoroughly in eight ounces fresh butter ; 
anointing the cancer or any hard tumor will cure .% Or : 
make a tea of four ounces red poppy leaves, four ounces plan- 
tain roots and tops, aid four ounces rose Jeaves ; simmer them 
in one quart soft water till strong; wash two or three times 
a day with it. : 
FOR DYSENTERY, 
_ Take bitter walnut meats pounded and steeped in cia 
sweeten well with loaf sugar, and take a tea-spoonful | every 
sores or salt rheum. - 
CURE FOR KING'S EVIL. 
Steep the leaves of a chestnut tree, wash the sore with the 
liquor, and bind on the leaves. 
FOR DYSENTERY OF LONG STANDING. 
Give ten drops of spirits turpentine on loaf sugar, two or 
three times a day. Give children less. ; 
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