278 RECIPES. 
FOR FELLONS. 
Take equal parts of soot, salt and the yolk of an egg, make 
a “poultice of it and put it on four or five times a day; and 
fora salve, simmer houseleek, chamomile, green elder and 
beeswax in sweet cream and lay” it on; or take pulverized 
dragon’s root and house leek, simmer and moisten with vine- 
gar; it will take fire out of a burn, prevent blistering and 
will cure corns by rubbing or binding on the juice; or soak 
the fellon in weak lye one liour, then simmer scabish leaves’ 
in hog’s lard and bind it on two or three times; or take but- 
ter, turpentine, og! and wheat flour, mix together and bind 
it on. 
TO TAKE FILM FROM THE EYES. 
Drop i in the juice of wild sullendine, called celendine, and 
‘if too harsh reduce it with breast milk and loaf sugar. If not 
taken off, then take one-half ounce ‘alum, one ounce loaf 
sugar, one-eighth ounce saltpetre, one-eighth ounce salt, dis- 
solved i in equal parts of cider vinegar and alcohol, say oné- 
half gill each. It seldom fails, You may wash the eyes 
and temples with it, one drop at a time. Celendine juice 
simmered to an oil and dropped into the eye, has cured when 
de sight had failed for me years. 
TO CURE PAIN IN THE STOMACH, OR FOR BILIOUS COLIC. 
Steep two ounces pulverized bath root in soahell pint of 
warm water, and take one-half gill as hot as you can drink ; 
it. Continue taking it every two hours till cured. | = t has 
cured when everything else failed. oe 
