RECIPES. 303 
CURE FOR THE MAW WORM. 
Take three ounces Epsom salts, three ounces brown sugar, 
one ounce sweet elderberry jelly, three ounces pink root pul- 
verized, two ounces sage, one-half ounce sweet flag root pul- 
verized, one-half ounce alum, one-half ounce saltpetre, one- 
fourth ounce white cedar buds pulverized ; put all in one-half 
pint port wine, with twenty-five drops oil of anise well cut in 
alcohol. Take one-half gill every two hours till you have a 
thorough operation as a physic. If given to children, it may 
be reduced with cider and sugar, and given in doses according 
to their age. After the worms pass, give a tea of black cherry 
tree bark, one-half cider well sweetened with India molasses, 
thorning and evening, half an hour before breekeat # and as 
you retire. 
CURE FOR A STRAIN OR BRUISE. 
_ Bake green frogs in an earthen vessel in. good brandy, 
spread them on a woolen oh and Jay them on warm. It 
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CURE FOR Tan t eg a ie 
Take large milkweed roots or tops, dwarf elder ae ae 
fops or berries, and balsam boughs, equal parts, and steep 
them in soft water; add to one gallon of the syrup two 
pounds loaf sugar, one quart good Holland gin well tinetured 
with juniper berries. Take one-half wine-glassful half an 
hour before eating, three times a day, and more if you can 
bear it. Soak the feet in hot water well tinctured with salt. 
T always recommend taking a thorough portion of the Re- 
formed Botanic and Indian Physic before taking the syrup. 
