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RECIPES, 327 
TO CURE VEGETABLE POISON. 
Take meadow fern, make a tea of it, wash with it, and 
_ drink the tea of either fern freely ; or wash with strong soap 
suds as hot as you can bear it, for five or six mornings; or 
boil three ounces plantain root and three ounces wild hoar- ~ 
hound in two quarts water, strain and add to it one-half ounce 
saltpetre, and take a wine-glassful till gone. Fora drink, boil 
six | olden-rod in two quarts water, and add, while 
boiling, one ounce hoarhound and two ounces sassafras ; aftér 
strained, add one-half pint rum or brandy. © If any is, ie 
a little saleratus and saltpetre water frequently. — Se 
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Make a strong tea of lobelia and wash with it as ae as 
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FOR ‘WORMS. 
Take one ounce pulverized decr’s horn and mix it with: 
Take one quart spirits of wine, six ounces oil of vitriol, 
drop the vitriol gradually into the spirits and let it stand 
corked tight’ three days; then add one and one-half ounces 
oil of cinnamon and one ounce ginger, let it stand six days 
and it is fit for use. 4 poten e 
FOR BILIOUS, or ANY COLIC. — 
Make: a strong tea of white maple bark, and take a tea- 
spoonful every hour till cured. 
