RECIPES, 299 
CURE FOR HARD DRINKING. 
Take one pound wild black cherry tree bark, steep well in — 
one quart water, and add to it, when cold, one quart well 
worked cider; dissolve in your cider one-half ounce saltpetre 
and one-half ounce alum; cut one-fourth ounce anise oil and 
one-fourth ounce asiephier gum well in alcohol; mix them all 
thoroughly together and sweeten it well with brown sugar. 
Take one tea-spoonful three times a day half an hour before — 
eating. Follow up taking the above bitters and it will effect 
acure, It is also good for the health of sng person, ieaiesihies 
in hot weather. ; 
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TO PREVENT MORTIFICATION. 
Boil one ounce of hops in on wt of vinegar, thicken it 
with wheat or rye bran, and pour the afflicted part with 
it till cured. 
PAIN EXTRACTOR, NO. 2. 
Take one-half pint linseed oil, one-fourth saiiemlapis 
one-fourth ounce’ oil of hemlock, one-fourth ounce oil spike 
and one quart of alcohol; pulverize the saltpeter and shake 
them all together. Bathe or lay a cloth of three or four 
thicknesses wet with the above on the wound or afflicted part ; 
repeat whenever dry, 
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HYSTERIC COLIC. 
‘Take one ounce of sour apple tree bark from small limbs 
and put in a table-spoonful of boiling water, stir it and give it. 
This will effect a real cure. 
