324 RECIPES. Z 
FOR SALT RHEUM. 
Dissolve salts of tartar or pure pearlash in one-half pint 
water, mix it with one-half pint lime juice, and add four 
ounces loaf sugar; take one-half wine-glassful morning and 
evening, fasting, Or take bitter weed (called bistart), make 
a strong tea of it and put one-half pint rum to a quart of the 
tea; take a glass morning and evening. ~ 
PLASTER FOR BROKEN BREASTS, 
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Simmer the bark of bittersweet root in hog’s lard, cream, 
fresh butter or mutton tallow, and apply it to the part affected. 
Dogwood bark or southernwood steeped in the same way is 
good. 
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TO DRAW A SORE TO A HEAD. _ 
" Seabish and round-leaf mallows, equal parts, pounded and 
* ‘simmered in water until tender, then stir in Indian meal. 
Repeat this poultice, when dry, till the sore breaks. 
FOR POLYPUS IN THE NOSE. 
. | Take one-half ounce corrosive sublimate and one ounce 
= 20 snuff. ‘Snuff it in the nose once a day for ten days, 
if you wish to be cured. — 
FOR THE DYSENTERY. 
Burn cobs and leach the ashes, then boil the lye down four 
to one, so that it will keep, and give Paras eae 
—— This will kill worms. ase 
