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RECIPES. 297 
* DYSENTERY. 
Take one ounce white pine bark, one ounce birch bark, one 
ounce ox balm, one-half ounce poplar bark, one ounce firr 
Dark or boughs, two ounces black cherry bark, one ounce 
mouse-ear ; boil-all in three quarts water thoroughly, strain 
and boil down to one quart; add one gill French brandy, 
one-half ounce alum, one and one-half pounds loaf sugar, 
one-half ounce pulverized gum myrrh, one-half ounce salt- 
petre, one-fourth ounce oil of anise, one-fourth ounce oil of 
wintergreen cut in alcohol, oné gill black raspberry syrup, one 
gill port wine. Bottle it and shake them all —— Take 
_ . one anblespoontal every two hours till cured. 
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AN ALL-HEALING SALVE. 
Take two ounces bark of the root of sweet elder, two ounces 
comfrey root, two ounces male fern, two ounces sweet apple- 
tree bark, of the root, two ounces balm of Gilead es eS 
them all together. ft OEE AB 
TO TAKE FILM FROM THE EYES. 
Take one-half ounce loaf sugar, one-fourth ounce alum, 
one-halé-ounce white hen dung, pulverize them together and 
blow it in with a quill two or three times, till the film is off;. 
or blow in strong tobacco spittle, then wash and put in the 
eye strong tea, made of rose leaves and green-tea, an equal 
quantity of each, sweeten with loaf sugar and wash the eyes 
clean with sweet milk every time you eperate on them. The 
tobacco spittle is used on brutes. 
