RECIPES, 339 
WORMS. a6 8 
Take bJue flag root boiled in milk, sweeten with loaf sugar, 
“<6 to a grown person give two table-spoonfuls—to a child 
worms. 
_ ANOTHER. 
Gises your medicine about the second quarter of the n moon. - 
Pour on to a piece of unslacked lime as big as a large hen’s 
egg, one quart of hot water, let it settle, then bottle the clear 
part, and give one-half wine al three times aday, It 
is good in gravel Si and is used as a a>. for foul 
ulcers, 
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FOR WHOOPING COUGH. 
Bind a piece of muskrat skin around the neck for ties: or 
five nights. 
FOR DYSENTERY AND DIARRHGA. 
Eat figs plentifully; or drink freely of a. strong tea made 
of Canada. Speen sean wee Seem iatee i a 
crinkle = x 
SALT RHEUM OR ITCH. 
Take one-half pint spirits turpentine, one pound fresh 
butter, one-fourth pound Burgundy pitch, one ounce mutton 
tallow,-one ounce beeswax, and simmer them well together ; 
when cool, add one ounce pulverized red. precipitate. Rub 
the afflicted part when going to bed, and follow it up for a 
week, Or simmer hog’s lard and yellow dock together, anoint 
all over, and drink freely of a tea made of the dock root. 
. Repeat the dose every two hours. It sat to destroy 
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