316 oe : RECIPES. 
: FOR THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE. 
_ Cut a gash in the wound as deep as the teeth, and imme- 
diately fill it with fine salt. Wash it with strong brine or 
plantain juice, moistened with a little water and squeezed out. 
Add to it as much salt as will melt. Keep it wet with the 
brine, and put a bandage tight above the wound above the 
knee or elbow. Rub the swelled part toward the wound as 
hard as can be borne. Continue washing till it stops run- 
ning. Give the patient sweet oil, saffron, or snake-root tea, 
to guard the stomach. Be careful not to get the matter on 
raw flesh. 
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. TO CURE THE ASTHMA. 
~ Make a strong tea of skunk cabbage root, strain, and add 
to every pint one table-spoonful of garlic juice—sweeten well 
with honey, and take one table-spoonful three times a day, 
Or take two ounces spikenard ‘root, two ounces sweet flag 
root, two ounces elecampane ‘root, and two ounces chalk— 
pulverize them all together, and mix them with one pound 
honey. Take a tea-spoonful three timesaday. Or take two 
* ounces saltpetre, one ounce sulphur, one ounce cream tartar, 
_ one-half ounce magnetia, four ounces ball liquorice, dissolve 
: them i in one quart water, and take one table-spoonful three 
“times a day, fasting. Or take a table spoonful of white mus- 
ic ca or water, ne and evening.. 
* WHOOPING covGH. ; 
| Give flax seed tea freely, and give every two or three hours 
_ & table-spoonful of the Indian Physic and one-half eunaag, 
‘fal of Cordial three times a day, before eating. — 
