RECIPES. 331 
SORE MOUTH SYRUP. 
Take one ounce sage, one ounce gold-thread, one ounce 
hyssop, and steep all together in one-half pint water; then 
strain, sweeten well with honey, and add epebalt:o ounce of 
eg alum. 
‘TO MAKE CANKER SYRUP. 4 
_ Take one pound of dried black currants, steep them well 
in two quarts water, then strain, and add two go loaf 
sugar and one ounce pulverized alum. gee Es 
COUGH SYRUP. pa pe 
Take one ounce lobelia seeds, one ounce sweet fing 6 four 
ounces black cherry tree bark, one-half lb. burdock roots, one-_ 
half ounce primrose flowers—boil them all together in two 
quarts water, then strain, and add one and a half pounds 
honey, and bottle it tight A use. 
Take. one fe pound poe chalk, one bane pound cream 
of tarter, one-fourth pound loaf sugar, one-half ounce mag- 
nesia, one-fourth ounce American rheubarb—all Pe « 
together. You can drop in the above twenty drops of the ~ 
oil of wintergreen. 
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VERVINE, 
Coin obstructions and cleanses the blood. It may be used 
in jaundice, dropsy, gout, worms, lung complaints and gravel. 
Mixed with hog’s lard cures the piles. 
