306 s+ ge» RECIPES, 
POLYPUS IN THE NOSE. 
Take two ounces of blood root, one-half ounce cinnamon, 
one ounce cork root, one drachm borax, ten grains corosive - 
_ sublimate, and pulverize all together. Take four pinches (as 
snuff) a day. When it grows small, snuff a little beet root 
juice. It oftentimes blows out. Or take one ounce blood 
root, one-half ounce skunk cabbage, one-half ounce lobelia, | 
one-eighth drachm corosive sublimate, two ounces snake-root» 
three ounces slippery elm (bark of the root), and one ounce 
_ snuff, Take four pinches a day. 
ST. ANTHONY’S FIRE, 
Dissolve two eunces of saltpetre in one pint of strong bur- 
dock root tea—cut one drachm oil of anise in one-half gill of 
_ alcohol. and add to the tea. Give a iable-eroontal three 
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FOR THE GOUT. 
_ Dissolve one ounce of camphor gum in one gill of alcohol, 
: _and add to it one gill of bgiling wales, Rub it on as hot as 
can be borne. 
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Bes _ FOR FEVER AND AGUE, 
: = Pat one-half pound culver’s root in one quart good rum, 
“a and take a ee three Vee a aay, if you can bear it. - 
"TO CURE, THE PILES. 
Pal one pound rough freweed, pounded and steeped in 
to an ointment, strain, and anoint the funda- 
= ; <i eee smooth firewood. 
