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286 RECIPES. 
TO DRAW A BLISTER. 
Take mustard, ground fine, and wet with vinegar, will 
draw_a blister. Green rue will do the same. Crow-foot will 
also draw a blister. Potatoe flies gathered in our meee 
are better than Spanish flies. 
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FOR A DOG BITE WHEN IN A TRAP. 
Boil Jobelia and lay it on a few times—it will effect an im- 
mediate cure, or take out the poison. 
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FOR A COUGH, —_ 
Make a strong tea of hyssop and sweeten it with honey. 
Take a wine-glassful as you go to bed. The moss of rock 
_Maade into a tea and sweetened with honey, will cure. Or 4 
tea made of walnut bark, sweetened, and taken as above, 1s 
good. Or make a tea of Indian posy, or 5 etic oe 
= and it will effect a cure. _ 
FOR BRUISES, 
Hold i in, or pour on, cold water two or three hours. Rub 
the wound with the hand if it will bear it, After the bruise 
and blood is out, lay on a plaster of beeswax, mutton tallow, 
and nd balsam firr, or balsam #95, 
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“WASH FOR FREEZES OR BURNS. 
- Take four pounds white oak bark, one pound white pine 
bark, one-half pound sassafras sprouts, put them in one gal- 
_ lon water, boil it well and strain—then boil it to one jill 
and wash the afflicted part with it, 
