314 ae RECIPES. 
SALT RHEUM. 
Make a strong tea of the bark of the root of red or white 
elm, drink the tea freely, and wash the affected part with it; 
or take one ounce of blue flag root, steep it in one-half pint 
_ gin, and take a tea-spoonful three times a day—wash with 
the same; or take one ounce of the oil of tar and two 
drachms of the oil of checkerberty, mix together, and take 
from five to ahr drops morning and evening. 
= FOR NERVOUS AFFECTIONS AND SICK HEAD-ACHE. 
Drink freely of mullin seed tea; or take one tea-spoonful 
of powdered chareoal and one-half drachm nitric acid in one- 
half gill. of. tea, 
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FOR HUMORS IN ‘THE BLOOD. 
| Take equal parts of saffron and Seneca root, and make a 
tre ng tea of sacs ‘Take one gill _— atts evening. 
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FOR DEAFN ESS. 
Take ants’ eggs and onion juice, mix. together, let them 
= stand one hour, then strain, and put two drops i in the ear as 
: ee to > bed for Ahteo ¢ or four So 
_ FOR THE JAUNDICE, 
Take the white of four hen’s egys and beat them up in 
one-half pint cider. Take a table-spoonful morning and eve- 
ning. Or take two ounces black cherry tree bark, two ounces 
blood root and one ounce barberry (bark of the root.) Put 
them in one quart good betes and take a —— ae it. 
morning and — 
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