RECIPES. - 305- 
FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG OR SNAKE. 
Make a strong tea of lobelia and wash the bite or sting 
with it; apply the leaves as a poultice. Repeat it every 
- thirty minutes. Or apply bruised onions and fine salt. 
_ FOR CONSUMPTION. ss > 
Make a strong tea of vervine and boiled cider, sweeten well’ 
with loaf sugar, and take a wine-glassful one-half hour be- 
fore eating and at night. Use the blue vervine for women 
and the white vervine for men, This = ae all — of 
people, 
FOR INWARD FEVER. 
Take spleen root and hog’s tush root, four ounces each ; to 
one quart of the syrup add one-fourth ounce saltpetre, and 
take a wine-glassful one-half hour before breakfast and as- 
you retire. : * — 
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“Take loaf sugar, bk ce: si h i pee 
parts, mix them well’ together, and take a teaspoon when 
the cough is hard, ~ 2 
FOR BILIOUS COMPLAINTS. 
Take one-half» pound dandelion (root and branch,) and 
one-half pound poplar (bark of the root)—boil it down thick, ~ 
strain, and add one-half molasses. Take a tea-spoonful three 
times a day; or take one pound black cherry tree bark, two 
ounces blood root, and steep in two quarts of good cider. 
Take a ——— three times a day, fasting. 
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