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RECIPES, ; 323 
FOR SORE LIPS OR MOUTH. | 
Take gold-thread and meadow parsly, eae parts, make a 
tea of it, put in a little loaf sugar, and wash the lips and 
mouth with it freely; or anoint your lips with rabbit’s grease 
a few times, A sprain has been cured by bathing with rab- 
bit’s grease a few times, and heating it in... Or’wet your finger — 
with fasting spittle, then rub it behind your ear, and rub your 
lips with it; or wet-a lump of saltpetre with your spittle and 
rub your lips with it, when dry grease them with mutton 
tallow, follow this up two or three days and it will cure; or 
wash your lips with cold spring water for six or ges morn- 
‘ings, and after that anoint them with opodeldock. — 
ANOTHER. 
Take bitter walnut meets, pound and moisten them with 
water, and rub the liquor on a few times. 
FOR INWARD POISON. . 
Drink a table-spoonful of ground mustard i tum erof | 
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: WOR THE DYSENTERY WHEN HARD. 
Make a tea of sumac berries and give a table-spoonful 
once an hour till cured; or steep mare’s tail and simmer it in 
milk—give it as you do the sumac berry tea. 
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_ FOR BROKEN BONES AND BRUISES. 
Boil beef brine and Roman wormwood half an hour, and 
bathe the broken bone or wind it up with it every three hours. 
