208 RECIPES. 
_TO MAKE A DRAFT FOR THE FEET TO CURE HYPOCHON- 
- DRIA. 
Take tar cand astern equal parts, and stir in. as much 
ginger as you can; spread it on a cloth and lay it on the 
bottom of the feet; keep it on as long as it will stick ; when 
it comes off repeat it if necessary. 
TO CURE RELAX. 
Take one-half drachm gum opium, one ounce gum myrrh, 
one ounce gum Arabic, one-half ounce gum camphor, one- 
eighth ounce oil of anise, pulverize all together and put them 
in one pint of good brandy. Give thirty drops 7 a dose for 
an adult every half hour. 
SWELLED THROAT on QUINSY. 
Make a poultice of burdock or csiieiain leaves, spread it 
with salt butter and sprinkle on ginger or black pepper; Jay 
it.on the throat, - Gargle the mouth and throat with strong 
black current tea well sweetened with honey, and swallow 2 
little of it. You can use mullen leaves if burdock cannot be 
had. Give a gentle physic if the complaint is hard. 
CURE FOR THE ASTHMA OF LONG STANDING. 
_ Snakeweed, more properly ealled bastart—put two ounces 
“of the leaves into. ‘one quart of good Boston or St. Croix rum, 
steep-it thoroughly and sweeten well with India molasses. 
Take one-half wine-glassful of it half an hour before eating. 
Tt will do te it the second time in one quart rum. This 
eee’ kin red the asthma and coughs of twenty years 
4 | drachm of the root pulverized has 8s 
much strength as half an ounce of the leaves. 
