1078 RECIPES AND PRESCRIPTIONS. 



How TO Give Relief in Obstinate Constipation. 



Cyrus W. King, of Brunswick, Me. , was relieved by this remedy after 

 taking pills, etc. , and failing to get a passage of the bowels for seventeen 

 days. Put a tablespoonful of coarse Indian meal into a cup, and wet thor- 

 oughly with common molasses, and take it all. An old lady who happened 

 to hear of the case, said she could relieve the man in a few hours, and ad- 

 vised this. It was taken at night, and there was perfect relief by morning. 



To Cure Colic. 



Take at once a tumblerful of hot molasses. A sailor who was delirious 

 from colic, and nearly dead from it, was relieved in five minutes. Calling 

 my attention to it, and claiming it would cure every case, I was induced to 

 make a note of it. The sailor said he took cold molasses with the same ef- 

 fect. 



To CiTRE A Fever- Sore. 



Take 3 ounces blue vitriol and 3 ounces gunpowder. Boil in a quart of 

 soft water until thoroughly dissolved, and reduced to one-half the quantity. 

 Pour on to the sore while hot as can be borne. 



Steven Johnson of Gouverneur, N. Y., was cured of a fever- sore on his 

 arm, of the worst character, of a year's standing. Doctors said he must lose 

 his arm — his own words. There was necrosis of the bones of the arm ; sores 

 in three places ; was cured by one application. Mr. Olmstead, of Oxbow, 

 N. Y. , had a bad sore below the knee ; went on crutches for six months ; 

 was cured with one application. Several other cases were reported of an 

 equally remarkable character. 



To Cure an Indolent Ulcer. 



A gentleman who had a fever-sore on his leg for seventeen years, had 

 spent five thousand dollars in trying to get the sore cured, and had no hope 

 of having it healed, was cured in three months by the following remedy : — 



Take th^ green scum that gathers on the water in the frog ponds in 

 spring and summer ; boil over a slow fire ; then add fresh butter to the con- 

 sistence of an ointment. Dress the sore with it once a day. The man 

 claimed to have given it to others who were afflicted with obstinate ulcers, 

 and that it had made perfect cures, and wished, from humanity to others so 

 afflicted, that I would give it an insertion in my book. 



For Weak Back, Rheumatism, and Crick in the Back. 



British oil, 1 oz. ; oil of spike, 1 oz. ; origanum, 1 oz. ; camphor, 1 oz. ; 

 alcohol, 1 pint. Put the British oil and camphor into the alcohol first ; 

 shake well. T. H. Brown, of Madrid, N. Y. , was cured of rheumatism in 

 the leg with this. His mother had a crick in the back ; was entirely disabled. 

 A few applications cured her. Accounts of its valuable eflfecta in the cure of 

 other cases were reported. 



