348 RECIPES. 
REFORMED BOTANIC AND INDIAN PHYSIC. 
TO LAY A FOUNDATION FOR THE CURE OF ALL DISEASES, 
Take three ounces Epsom salts, three and a half ounces 
brown sugar, one-eighth ounce saltpetre, dissolve them well 
in one gill hot water, then add one-half wine-glassful of good 
cider vinegar, one-half ounce elderberry jelly, and cut twelve 
drops oil of anise in one tea-spoonful of aleoho]. Take one- 
fourth, fifth or sixth part, as the stomach can bear, on going 
to bed—and if it does not operate three or four times . 
thoroughly i in eight hours, take another dose, and repeat the 
same every two hours until it does operate three or four times 
thoroughly. After that, take a tea-spoonful of the Cordial 
one-half hour before eating, for a few days. : 
HEALTH BITTERS AND CORDIAL. 
_ ‘Fake one pound black cherry bark, one-half pound bur- 
dock roots, and. one-fourth pound sarsaparilla—boil them 
well in three quarts water to one and a half quarts; dissolve 
in three pints good’ cider, one ounce saltpetre, one ounce 
alum—cut one-fourth ounce camphor gum, one-fourth ounce 
oil of anise, in one pint fourth-proof brandy ; mix them all 
together, and then add four pounds loaf sugar. To make 
the Cordial, add one-third good ces wine. 
TO CURE VEGETABLE POISON. 
_ Rub the afflicted. part with spirits turpentine—rub lightly ; 
or jam wild celandine and rub it on; or white scabious, in 
the same manner; or wash with iron sweet fern freely. 
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B. Cold water can be drank freely .in all the medical 
ms of this work, and vomiting should be guarded 
t, when giving the Physic, by taking small doses of the 
Cordial, if — of vomiting appear. 
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