FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 131 
‘For Contracted Sinews. 
Take a pint bottle, fill it half full of sweet oil, 
then fill it up with camomile flowers. Let it 
by the fire. Or, anoint with neat’s foot oil, and 
bind on flannels dipt i in ss while hot. 
Tincture of Capsicum. 
Take a drachm of this liquid, eck: can be 
purchased at the apothecary shops, add to it one | 
ounce of rain water, apply it two or three 
a day for weak and inflamed eyes. 
How to destroy Ants in Gardens, or Houses. 
Ants that frequent houses or gardens may be 
destroyed by taking flour of brimstone, half | 
pound, and potash, four ounces; set them in an 
iron or earthen pan over the fire till dissolved, 
and united ; afterwards beat them to a er, 
and infuse a little of this powder in water, and = ae 
wherever = Ps sen it the ants — die, oF 5 
ee the plac 
How to make Essences. 
The Essence of Hemlock, Peppermint, Pen- _ 
nyroyal, Cinnamon, Wormwood, or Tansy, is 
made by taking one ounce of the "essential oil of 
either of those articles, and pour it to one pint 
of alcohol or rectified spirits of wine, and shak- 
