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RECIPES, 295 
TO CURE A CANCER 
Take one pound scoke and dry in on pewter to a salve, 
then add one ounce blue vitriol pulverized, and mix well to- 
gether. For a healing salve, take two ounces smart weed, 
one pound white pine boughs, twelve pounds night shade,” 
one pound red clover, and boil them all in one gallon water, 
strain and boil to jelly; add four ounces mutton tallow,and 
one-half pint new rum. Spread it on a linen cloth. Prick 
_ the cancer with a needle and lay on the plaster. Dress with 
the salve every twelve hours. 
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MEASLES. 
’ Put two ounces high nettle, two ounces sage and one-half 
ounce plantain seed in one quart water; add one-half ounce 
saltpetre and drink it freely. Pulverize the saltpetre. 
SALT RHEUM. 
Take eight ounces Evan’s root, eight ounces 8 root, 
boil them in two quarts water, strain, drink freely of it, and 
wash with-it. Sweeten what you drink, or drink Saratoga 
Spring water. Cleanse the blood well with the Indian Physic 
in all serofulous cases, 
CANCERS. 
Lay on a poultice of powdered turmeric root a few times 
till it can be taken out, then put on a poultice ‘of wood sorrel 
or sour apples a few times, and you can heal it with any good 
salve, or balsam firr. ‘Physic the patient three or four times 
thoroughly with the Botanic and Indian Physic, and give a 
little cordial or Slambering Drops. 
