304 RECIPES, 
FOR DROPSY. 
~ Take cream of tartar, borax, ginger, gum myrrh, each one 
ounce, put in one pint of gin, and take one tea-spoonful three 
times a day. Or take one drachm powdered broom seed and 
put in one gill of wine. Take it in the morning for two or 
three days, fasting. Or take blue flag root and elecampane 
root, one-half pound of each, boil in one gallon’ water one 
hour, strain, add one pint molasses and one pint gin, well 
_tinetured with juniper berries. Take a wine-glassful three» 
times a day. Or steep the inside bark of sweet elder (say 
one-half pound) in one quart wine. Take a wine-glassful 
morning and evening. 
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FOR a BLOOD. 
"Drink freely of white oak hosk tea for three or fais days. 
_ Or boil one-half pound yellow dock root in one quart of new 
milk. cseecvadenns gill three times 4 aay; and one ase se of 
- turpentine. 
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FOR BLOODY URINE. 
Dissolve one ounce of gum Arabic in one gill of water, 
and put in ten drops of the oil of vitriol, Take one tea- 
ppc twice a ier 
FOR WORMS, OR WEAK STOMACH. 
Take deer’s horn, pounded or made into a strong tea, mix _ 
with molasses or liquor, and take a tea-spoonful of the pow- 
Re ieee meres of the tea, three times pacers 
