RECIPES, 835 
TO CURE FITS OF ANY KIND. 
Take — parts of barberry bark, high cranberry bark, 
and spotted alder, (generally called black alder,) and dry and 
powder them together. Take a tea-spoonful three times a 
day, fasting. Then take one pound gallow root, put in two’ 
quarts water, boil it down to a pint, strain it, and put one — 
pint sacigaiee and one pint milk into it. Take of this syrup — 
a win ul morning and evening, every other day. Take 
a tea-spoonful of spirits turpentine the day you do not take 
the other medicine. This never Seneigh ae 
FOR. SORE EYES. 2 a ee 
Take: two ounces. 1s sweet apple tree atk, two ounces 5 lad 
maple bark, two ounces tag alder bark, and two ounces spruce. 
buds, put them all together in one pint of rain water, and 
‘simmer it down to one-half pint; then strain and bottle it, 
and add one-half drachm white vitriol and one-half drachm 
sulphate of zinc. Wash your eyes at night as you go to 
bed. This has cured the worst of sore eyes. 
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SMALL POX. 
Drink freely of bread coffee, and eat mulled butter milk; 
or let your whole diet be bread and butter milk, sweetened ; 
or bread and molasses, and drink milk and water; or milk 
and apples, and take a wine-glassful of the Reformed Botanic _ 
and Indian Physic once a week. . Take care to have pure 
cool air, but not too much, If they strike in and convulsions 
follow, drink a pint of cold water immediately. This in- 
stantly stops me convulsions and drives out the pox. 
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