RECIPES. 288 
FOR THE PHTHISIC. 
Take two orfuces hen’s fat, two seed balls of skunk cab- _ 
bage cut fine, steep and strain. Take one tea-spoonful three 
times a day. Steep two ounces honey suckle blossoms, two 
ounces queen of the meadow roots, strain, and then add two 
ounces honey and one gill brandy. Take three glasses per 
day. 
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FOR ULCERATED SORES. 
Make a poultice of sassafras leaves and milk, and apply it 
to the sore two or three timesaday. Apply the leaves when 
the poultice is off. . ~ eee eS 
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~ FOR RICKETY AND WEAKLY CHILDREN. 
Fill a bottle with green hog brake, then put in what 
brandy it will hold, and when given reduce it one-half with 
water, sweeten with loaf sugar, and give a te 
times a day, after reduced, and more if the child can bear it. 
Wash the afflicted part, or the whole body if you ¢ 008e, 
with the above. 
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OINTMENT FOR SWELLINGS AND SORES. 
Take fresh butter, rosin, beeswax, and mutton tallow, each 
two ounces, honey two ounces, sweet oil two ounces, brown 
sugar two ounces, balsam firr two ounces, eastile soap one 
ounce, southern wood jelly one ounce—simmer all together, 
and anoint with it two or three times a day. It answers on 
man or beast. ~~ 
