320 ee RECIPES. 
FOR. THE STING OF A BEE, OR ANY OTHER INSECT. 
Apply laudanum outwardly immediately ; ; or wash with 
‘strong brine mixed with plantain juice; or hold on a cloth 
wet with eold water ; or pour cold water on for oe an hour ; 
or lay 0 on. pounded plantain leaves and roots. on 
= CHOLERA MORBUS. 
Make a strong tea of burdock roots, mullin leaves and el- 
der berries, and drink freely of it ; or one-half pint of sour 
cider—put in it a tea-spoonful of good hard wood ashes, let 
it settle, and take one table-spoonful every half hour. 
RHEUMATISM. 
et Take ‘in ee awect flag and blood root, ids four ounces, | 
and four§ounces prickly ash bark ; steep them in two quarts. 
brandy, and take one-half wine-glassful three times a day. 
ANOTHER. 
Take four ounces castile soap, two ounces camphor gum, 
one-half ounce oil fosemary, and three pints alcohol ; soak 
: wie.s0ap: three days in the alcohol, then add the other ingre- 
_ dients, and shake all together. Bathe the afflicted part with 
arene! 
PUTRID SORE THROAT 
sotake, one gill strong cider vinegar, one ounce salt, two 
ounces honey, one drachm red pepper, boil them all together 
ee n one-half pint strong sage tea, and. take. a tea-spoontul 
every two hours till cured. » 
