THE TAMILY PHYSICIAN. SgS 



stain from drinking either milk or malt liquor for one mouth. 

 Proved a great number of times. 



This prescri-ption alone is worth more money than the price 

 of this book, 



IIozo to help those whose courses arc stopped. 

 Take two ounces of the grains of paradise, one ounce of 

 long pepper, one ounce of turmerick, and two ounces of 

 s(€el filings, all in powder; make it into an electuary with a 

 little honey, and take about the size of a walnut night and 

 morning i and two or three times in the course of the day 

 take a wine glass lull of the decoction of garden rue, worm- 

 wood, horehound and nettles, for some days. 



~ IIozo to take axcay little red pimples from the face. 



/Take two ounces of lemon juice, two ounces of rose water, 

 two drachms of silver suppliment, mix tiiem them into ai' 

 ■ointment and rub your face with the same at going to bed, 

 and when yon get up in the morning rub your face with fresh 

 butter, and then rub the same clean off, 



IIozo to make balsam of life. 

 Take gum benjamin one ounce, strained storax, balsam oi 

 peru, balsam of tolu, myrrh, olibanum, angelica root, . St. 

 John's wort flowers, each half an ounce; succ^trine aloes one 

 scruple, put them all into a pint of the spirit of wine, and 

 let them stand for a week before the fire, stir them once a 

 day until all the gums are dissolved, then filter it off for use. 

 This is an admirable medicine for a great number of diseases, 

 and wonderfully strengthens the whole bod}-, &c. 



IIoxo to kill zoorrns, or bot-zoorms in the body. 

 Take half a glass of brandy, and put therein as much fine 

 sulphur as will lay on a shilling, and mix them together; 

 then burn a bit of bread crust in the fire till it is black, chew 

 the same in your mouth for about five minutes, after which 

 put it out again., and then immediately take the above men- 

 tioned medicine early in the morning fasting. 



A remedy for a consumption if taken in time. 

 Take one handful of horehound and the same quantity of 

 garden rue, with two pounds of coarse sugar; put these in- 

 giedients into two quarts of ^vater, boil them all together 

 until they are reduced to one quart, then take three" large 

 table spoonfuls otthe-same early in the morning fastin"-. 



