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282  - RECIPES, 
TO KILL THE TAPE WORM, OR ANY OTHER WORM. 
Take one ounce of the bark of the root of sweet fern, boil 
in one gill water, and add one ounce honey. Give one table- 
spoonful, and repeat the dose every two hours. Follow this 
up a few times and it will kill the tape worm. A strong tea 
made of sweet fern, well tinctured with good brandy, equal 
parts, and sweetened with loaf sugar, will destroy the tape. 
worm, if drank freely. After that, physic with the Indian _ 
Physic. 
SALT RHEUM WASH. 
Take two ounces blue flag (bark of the root), two ounces 
river willow, two ounces skunk cabbage root, two ounces 
cock ash root, two ounces Evan’s root, boil all together, strain, 
and add one-half pound mutton tallow, one ounce sugar of 
lead, one-half ounce soda, stir all together, and anoint with 
Sie elope & times a day. _ 
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‘TO PRESERVE THE TEETH. 
“Take one-half ounce gum myrrh, one-half ounce Jessewit 
bark, one and a half ounces white oak bark, and steep in 
one pint rum or alcohol two days, Rub your teeth and 
gums with it. Either one of the barks in rum, Sen goath: or 
you may chew the bark. 
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HYSTERIC PILLS, 
Boil white root strong, and to one-half pint of the tea add 
one ounce asafvetida, boil down vee Give three 
or four as the fit is coming iat 
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