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if pearls like drops of dew bang upon them, they are 

 in health ; but if they are hot, dry, and scurfy, some 

 distemper is beginning to grow. 



For any Imposthume, Boil, or Swelling. 



Take lily-roots, boil them till they are a pap in 

 milk, and apply it hot to the sore. When the sore 

 comes to be soft, you may open it with a hot iron, 

 if you find need, and heal it with tar, turpentine, and 

 oil, mixed together, adding a little hog's-lard to it 

 when boiling hot. 



To Kill Worms. 



Chop savin small, and mix it with sweet butter, roll 

 it into balls, and give it for two or three days ; after- 

 wards give him about a pint of sweet wort, in which 

 dissolve a little black soap, and it will bring them 

 away ; keep him warm after it, giving him warm 

 water, and without meat three hours. 



Bleeding a Cow. 



Except it be in an extraordinary case, never 

 take above a pint of blood from a milch cow at a 

 time. 



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