RECIPES. : 289 
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SALT-RHEUM. 
Take one pound cocash, one-half pound Evan’s root, one- 
half pound burdock root; one-fourth pound yellow dock, and 
boil in three quarts water. Drink freely of the tea and bathe 
with the same. Make a plaster of four ounces mutton tal- 
low, four ounces white pine turpentine, four ounces Burgundy 
pitch, one-half ounce burnt alum, and one-half ounce borax ; 
melt and simmer them all, and lay it on the affected part. 
Follow this up faithfully, and keep the bowels easy with the’ 
Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic. 
CAMP DISTEMPER. 
Take four ounces black cherry bark, four ounces rece 
bark, four ounces white wood bark, eight ounces poplar bark, 
boil in two quarts to one, and strain and sweeten; then add 
one ounce sal flitre, two ounces epsom salts, and take one 
table-spoonful every hour till it physics. Make a syrup of 
the tea, without the salts, and add to one quart of the syrup — 
one pint good brandy, sweeten well with loaf a. subein 
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CORNS AND WARTS. 
Take two ounces scraped carrots, one-half ounce fine salt, 
* and lay on asa poultice. Repeat the poultice twice a day 
till cured. Or the ashes of willow bark and vinegar laid on 
will also cure either corns or warts. 
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Pound blood root and lay on the corn as a poultice a few 
times, will — a cure. 
