86 FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 
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inne er hot ashes, until it is reduced to four 
quartas bin e decoction, and let the patient 
-glassful four ti ay, e 
take as y, for a 
days, i increasing the dose to a tea-cupful, three 
or four times a day, according to its effects ; af- 
i which the patient must use some tonic or 
the dropsy, in a wee 
had Baffled the skill - the most cecaan 
, eek ans. 
y 
Ear-ache—Insects in the Ear, 
ointment made by slicing 9 ae onions, and 
ce 1 in lard, and then strained, is an ex- 
eo in ; 
“hic ihe ear, and the he ed to stea 
the and Sede of the head. It so mes ha 
that insects get into the ear uch cases 
the. cee of myrrh, or spirits of camphor, or 
', any kind of spirits er ‘har miless fluid, and after- 
~ Wards syrii the with warm Water, to 
bring tiove ste 
eee 
_ Take Virginia snake-root, masierwort root, 
b oot, white-wood bark, and ginseng 
_ Foot—infused in brandy. Dose, a wine-glassfal 
Tee aay. Elder flowers, in decane: “ 
