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etc., etc., are all the remnants of a past 

 state of ignorance and are of no use 

 whatever. Warts are generally only tem- 

 porary and disappear as their possessors 

 grow up. 



WHITE SWELLING.— Draw a blister 

 on the inside of the leg below the knee; 

 keep it running with ointment made of 

 hen manure, by simmering it in hog's 

 lard with onions; rub the knee with the 

 following kind of ointment : Bits of pep- 

 permint, oil of sassafras, checkerberry, 

 juniper, one drachm each ; simmer in one- 

 half pint neatsfoot oil, and rub on the 

 knee three times a day. 



WOUNDS. — Catnip steeped, mixed 

 with fresh butter and sugar. 



WHOOPING-COUGH.— Take a quart 

 of spring water, put it in a large handful 

 of chin-cups that grow upon moss, a 

 large handful of unset hyssop ; boil it to 

 a pint, strain it off, and sweeten it with 

 sugar-candy. Let the child, as often as 

 it coughs, take two spoonsful at a time. 



WORMS, in Children.— 1. Take one 

 ounce of powdered snake-head (herb), 

 and one drachm each of aloes and prick- 

 ly ash bark; powder these, and to one- 

 half teaspoonful of this powder add a 

 teaspoonful of boiling water, and a tea- 

 spoonful of molasses. Take this as a 

 dose, night or morning, more or less, as 

 the symptoms may require. 2. Take to- 

 bacco leaves, pound them up with honey, 

 and lay them on the belly of the child or 

 grown person, at the same time adminis- 

 tering a dose of some good physic. 3. 

 Take garden parsley, make it into a tea, 



and let the patient drink freely of it. 4. 

 Take the scales that will fall around the 

 blacksmith s anvil, powder them fine, and 

 put them in some sweetened rum. Shake 

 when you take them, and give a tea- 

 spoonful three times a day. 



URINE, Scalding of the. — Equal parts 

 of the oil of red cedar, and the oil of 

 spearmint. 



URINARY OBSRUCTIONS. — Steep 

 pumpkin seeds in gin, and drink about 

 three glasses a day; or, administer half a 

 drachm uva ursi every morning, and a 

 dose of spearmint. 



URINE, Free Passage of. — The leaves 

 of the currant bush made into a tea, and 

 taken as a common drink. 



VENEREAL COMPLAINTS. — Equal 

 parts of the oil of red cedar, combined 

 with sarsaparilla, yellow dock and bur- 

 dock made into a syrup ; add to a pint of 

 this syrup an ounce of gum guiaicum- 

 Dose, from a tablespoonful to a wine 

 glass, as best you can bear. 



THROAT, Sore, How to Cure.—" One 

 who has tried it " communicates the fol- 

 lowing sensible item about curing sore 

 throat : Let each one of your half million 

 readers buy at any drug store one ounce 

 of camphorated oil and five cents' worth 

 of chloride of potash. Whenever any 

 soreness appears in the throat, put the 

 potash in half a tumbler of water, and 

 with it gargle the throat thoroughly ; then 

 rub the neck thoroughly with the cam- 

 phorated oil at night before going to bed, 

 and also pin around the throat a small 

 strip of woolen flannel. This is a simple* 

 cheap and sure remedy. 



