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280 RECIPES. 
FOR TOOTH-ACHE. 
Take white oak bark, white pine bark, and beech leaves 
that hang on all winter, equal parts, say one pound ; put in 
one gallon water, and boil to one quart. Hold it in your 
mouth as hot as you can bear it. Or take one-half gill of 
rum, one-half gill vinegar, add one-half ounce salt, and 
hold it in the mouth ten minutes—repeat the dose several 
times. Or make'a strong tea of moose wood bark, hold in 
the mouth, and it will cure the nerve and stop the tooth 
aching. Or make a poultice of roasted onions and salt,*equal_ 
parts, and bind it on the wrist. — 
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RHEUMATIC OINTMENT. 
Take one pint beef’s gall, one-half pint sweet oil, one 
ounce camphor gum, one-half ounce spirits turpentine, put 
them in a warm place, shake them together, and anoint the 
afflicted parts two or three times a day. 
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< CURE FOR THE JAUNDICE. 
Take white ash- {bark ‘of the root), poplar (bark of the 
root), wild black cherry tree bark, each two ounces—steep 
them strong in one quart water, and mix it with one-half 
cider. Take a wine-glassful, one-half hour before eating, 
three times a day. One quart is a dose for a creature, and it 
must be repeated till it physics thoroughly. 
FOR THE PHTHISIC, 
Wet brown paper in strong saltpetre water—when dry, 
smoke the paper and burn it profusely in the room. 
