\ 
290 RECIPES, 
CURE FOR CANCERS. 
Make a poultice of onions, sprinkle on pulverized blood 
~ root and white precipitate to kill it, and jay. it on till the roots 
root and — Peru lonan: and keep it on till the cancer 
comes out; then heal it with soap salve. 
ANOTHER. - 
Pat four quarts of olive oil in a new pewter-lined copper 
vessel, and simmer it over a slow fire till it becomes an oint- 
ment—it may take twenty-four hours. Rub the afflicted 
part with the ointment constantly, and wet a cloth with it 
and lay it on. A cure is said to be made in fourteen days. 
ANOTHER, 
Put two ounces tobacco in one-half pint new rum, simmer 
them together, and lay them on as a poultice for five days; 
then en take ce one-fourth ounce pearlash with one spoonful of tur- 
entine, warm it a little, and add one-half spoonful of honey 
“aid one-half spoonful of fine chalk. Rub all together, and 
Jay it on as a plaster. Renew it every two days. 
e ‘ 
CURE FOR FEVERISH SWELLED LEGS. 
_ Take the bark of the root of basswood, simmer in sweet 
milk after they are pounded fine, and put on the sore. It 
will bring down the swelling. 
FOR BILIOUS. COLIc. 
Dry and pulverize milkweed root, and give a table-spoon- 
ful to the patient every two hours, This has cured when 
poysiin’s skill had failed. 
