288 _~ RECIPES. 
TOOTH-ACHE. 
_ Wet lint with oil of cloves or wintergreen, apply it togthe 
tooth, and hold some Health Bitters and brandy, equal parts, 
INWARD ULCERS. 
Take one-half ounce blood root, one ounce sassafrasg(bark 
of the root), one ounce colt’s-foot root, four ounces white pine 
bark, one ounce aloes, one ounce gum Arabic—steep all in 
one quart brandy, and take two table-spoonfuls three times a 
~ day, fasting, © 
FOR COUGHS. 
_ Steep one pound hemlock boughs with one pound Canada 
thistle root and one-eighth ounce lobelia, and sweeten well with 
honey or loaf sugar. Take a tea-spoonful three times a day; 
_ and less if it debilitates too much. It can be bottled, corked 
tight, and kept for years. _ : 
FOR DROPSY. 
Take one-half pound spice bush bark, one-half pound 
prickly ash bark, one-half pound dwarf elder roots, one-half — 
pound milkweed roots, one-half pound sassafras (bark of the 
root), one-half pound horseradish, two ounces garlic, four 
ounces parsley, two ounces blood root, two ounces mandrake 
root, one-half pound burdock—all boiled in two gallons of 
malt beer down to one gallon ; strain,'and add one quart gin 
with tWo ounces juniper, and sweeten well with India mo- 
lasses. Take a wine-glassful three times a day. 
