RECIPES, 293. 
TO DRIVE OUT THE CANKER-RASH. ~ 
Steep red hollyhock flowers in vinegar, and sweeten it well 
_ with honey. Give the patient one tea-spoonful every hour,. 
and it will drive it out. To cure it, give one table-spoonful 
of the Indian Physic every two hours till it operates thorough-. 
ly. Afterwards, give a little cordial made of raspberry jelly,.. 
port wine and cherry bark tea, sweetened with loaf sugar. __ 
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SALVE FOR FEVER SORES. 
Take one pound hog’s lard, eight ounces rosin, eight ounces 
beeswax, four ounces castile soap, one-half ounce oil of spike, 
and simmer them well together ; or boil ten pounds red 
clover blossoms, well in rain water, say four gallons, strain, 
and boil down to asalve. Wash the sore with castile soap 
suds once every day, and dress the sore with the salve. 
Drink freely of a tea made of red clover roots and blossoms, 
Or poultice with blue flag roots boiled in skim-milk before it. 
breaks—put on three poultices a day till it breaks ; then take. 
four ounces bittersweet, four ounces sweet appletree bark, 
four ounces. sage, four ounces sumac bobs, and boil in one 
gallon water. Wash with these and dress with the cure-all 
plaster.. 
TO KILL THE TAPE WORM. 
Take one ounce bark of pomegranate, one ounce male fern, 
one ounce sage, four ounces loaf sugar, pulverize them all 
together and put in one pint brandy. Give a table-spoonful 
every hour, twelve hours in succession ; then give a cathartic 
of one ounce mandrake root, two ounces Epsom salts, four 
ounces sugar, momen ounce saltpetre. 
