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308: - RECIPES. 
FOR SWELLED THROAT AND STOMACH. 
Take one ounce spirits nitre, one ounce pikery, one-fourth 
ounce white pine turpentine or spirits turpentine, one-fourth | 
ounce oil hemlock, one-fourth ounce camphor gum, one-fourth 
ounce alum, all cut in two gills of alcohol; shake them well 
“together and give a tea-spoonful every two hours, and baie 2 
the throat with it. 
EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA. 
Take one pound sarsaparilla, two ounces guaiacum root, 
- pulverized, one dunce senna root, one ounce licorice root, ten 
drops oil of sassafras, ten drops oil of anise, cut in alcohol ; 
put them all in one pint of alcohol, then strain and warm it - 
and add one-fourth pound loaf sugar. Give half a tea-spoon- 
fal three times a ay, This is great for cleansing the blood. 
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CURE FOR CANKER. 
Take s dian willow, bark of the roots, and rattlesnake bite 
herbs or roots, equal parts, steep them together and give a ~ 
tea-spoonful every hour; if hard, every fifteen minutes. The 
first tea is good for any sore. If the patient cannot drink the 
tea, make a powder of it and give in molasses. One-quarter 
of a tea-spoonful of the powder is a dose. 
CURE FOR HARD DRINKING. 
Gather Roman -wormwood in the full of the moon, dry it 
in the shade and keep it from the air; make a tea of it and 
drink it freely. When you are faint, drink a little cold water- 
Take a spoonful of it when you first rise, continue drinking 
this bitter = it will subside all desire for ardent spirits. 
