- 296 RECIPES. 
FOR RHEUMATISM. ~ 
Steep four ounces cocash roots in one quart brandy, let it 
stand forty-eight hours, and wash the afflicted part night and 
morning with it, and take one-half wine-glassful inwardly, 
‘night and morning. A tea of the roots will cure colic, pain 
in the bowels, or stomach. When the rheumatism is settled 
in the joints, boil cedar boughs in brandy till the bark comes 
off, strain the liquor, boil it down to a salve, spread a plaster, 
and lay it on the joint. 
2 ANOTHER, 
Put rusty iron in strong vinegar, let it stand one week, and 
rub the afflicted part with it when going to bed. 
ANOTHER, 
Boil four ounces logwood in three pints water to one pint, 
and then put it into. one quart rum, - Take a wine-glassful 
three times a day. 
ANOTHER, — : 
Pate one pint of pulverized garget root in one quart of 
St. Croix rum, and take a wine-glassful three times a day— 
morning, noon, and night. 
TO CURE DEAFNESS. 
_ Put in the ear black wool moistened with oil of cloves, or 
oil of cinnamon, or oil of lavender, and honey, dissolved in 
epirite of ammonia. 
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RHEUMATISM. 
Boil one pound cocash root and four ounces burdock seed 
-in two quarts water, strain and add one pint brandy and two 
pounds sugar. Take one tea-spoonful three times a day. 
