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eee CURE FOR oe OR SUMMER COM. 
“Siey summer complaint flowers in “water, and sweeten 
with loaf sugar. Drink freely of it. It seldom fails. This 
herb grows about two feet high, and has a pale blue flower 
and a narrow leaf, about two inches long. 
ANOTHER. 
Fat ploniitallts of figs ; ; or drink freely of the tea made. of 
Canada thistle roots; or drink a raw egg in cider or port 
Wine, well wihgiak with loaf sugar; or make a strong tea 
of iron bush leaves and tops, and drink- one-half wine-glass- 
ful every hour till cured; or steep spleen root in water (not. 
boil it) and take one-half wine-glassful every two hours—a 
child less; or steep tansy, horsemint and fever bush, equal 
parts, sweeten with molasses, and take as above one-half 
wine-glassful ; or boil milkweed roots in skim-milk, and take 
one gill every hour. 
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TO CURE FEVER AND AGUE. 
Take four ounces horsemint, four ounces mullin root, four 
ounces ginseng or stinkweed root, four ounces red pepper 
pods, boil them in two quarts water to one quart, sweeten 
with molasses, and take one gill as hot as you can bear every 
half hour for two hours. After the first day, take one gill 
three times a day, one-half hour beforeeating. 
CURE FOR KING'S EV. IL. 
Fry poke stalks and leaves in a pan till it becomes a liquid, 
and rub it on, or wet a cloth with the liquid and lay it on a - 
number of times. You must keep it in a bottle well corked. 
