j RECIPES. 281 
_ FOR RHEUMATISM. 
Take one pound smartweed and steep in one quart water, 
without boiling—add to it one quart sweet milk or good 
spirits, and take a wine glassful of it for nine mornings. 
‘ ANOTHER. : 
'- Simmer one gill neat’s foot oil with two gills good brandy 
till they mix ; put in one beef’s gall and one gill spirits tur- 
pentine, and bathe with it once or twice a day. Take in- 
wardly brandy well tinctured with mustard—one table-spoon: . 
‘ful, or more if you ean bear t twice a ee : g 
_FOR RATTLESNAKE BITE. eS 
Bind a ioketek above the elbow, or knee, ‘ica a take 
a live fowl and cut off a small piece of the flesh under the 
wing and apply the fresh wound to the bite. Hold it close 
_ till the fowl dies, and continue this operation till one survives 
the operation. The wound may then be healed with a draw- 
ing salve. But to physic the bowels and blood well with the 
| Indian Physic is the best, and a syrup of burdock roots, sar- 
> gapatilla, yellow dock and spignard, equal parts, with balsam 
boughs, (one-half as much’ in weight,) sweeten with sugar, 
~ and to every quart add one-half ounce pulverized saltpetre. 
Drink one wine-glassful three times a day for a month, if 
you can bear it, Take physic every week. 
BLOODY URINE. 
Take two ounces agrimony, two ounces yarrow, two ounces — 
juniper berries, two ounces dwarf elder berries, steep in one 
pint water, strain, and add one-half ounce saltpetre and one- 
half pound loaf | gpa Drink freely of it. 
