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worms. The bark of witch hazel, or spotted alder, steep 

 it in a pewter vessel, let it boil, on a moderate heat very 

 strong; a child of a year old can take a table spoonful, if 

 older, take more, according to the age. Let them take 

 it four or five times in a day for several days. It is 

 sure and safe. — Or take sage, powder it fine, mix it with 

 honey ; a tea spoonful is a dose.— Sweetened milk, with 

 a little alum added to it is very good to turn worms. — 

 Flour sulphur mixed with honey, is very good for worms. 

 — Take a piece of steel, heat it very hot in a smith's fire, 

 then lay on it a roll of brimstone, melt the steel, let it fall 

 offinto water, it will be in round lumps ; take them and 

 pound them very fine, mix the dust with molasses; let the 

 child take half a tea spoonful night and morning, fasting. 

 — Wild mandrake roots dried and ^powdered mixed with 

 honey; give a child of a year old as much of the powder as 

 will lie on sixpence; take it in the morning fasting, three 

 or four times successively. — If a child is taken with fits by 

 reason of worms, give as much paregorick as the child can 

 bear. It will turn the worms and ease the child." — To 

 prevent children from having worms, let them eat onions 

 raw or cooked, raw is best. — Salt and water is good to 

 turn worms, and give a dose or two of flour sulphur, mixt 

 with molasses or honey, after; brings oflfthe worms with- 

 out any thing else. 



79. A cure for the Polypus. 



Take two ounces of bloodroot, dry it, pound it fine, 

 quarter of an ounce of calix cinnamon, two ounces of 

 Sf'.keroot, snuflfit up the nose, it will kill the polypus. 

 Then take a pair of forceps and pull it out, and use the 

 snufi' until it is cured. If the nose is so stopped that it 

 cannot be snufTed up, boil the same and gurgle it in the 

 throat, and sweat the head with the hot hquor until it 

 withers so as to use the snuff. 



80. For a frog under the tongue. 



When the frog is first perceived, take weak ley and 

 hold it in the mouth as hot as can be borne, and if it is 

 grown tough, touch it in three or four places with caustic 

 until it is sore, then apply the ley. 





