19 



8 1 . For Childbed fevers. 



In childbed fevers take rattle snake's gall, five grains 

 malitel, sweet balm tea once an hour until the fever a- 

 bates, and every time the fever rises continue the same. 

 Keep the body loose. 



82. Cure for pJithisic. 



Roast three egg shells brown — pulverize rather coars- 

 ]y; mix with half a pint of molasses and take a spoonful 

 morning, noon, and night. The cure is certain, unless 

 the disease is hereditary, descending from the parents. 



83. For the Dysentery. 



Half an ounce of promegranate bark, pulverised, and 

 steeped in a pint of wine, or good cider, and taken a gill 

 at a time, before eating. 



S4. A valuable remedy for the Dysentery and bloody Flux. 



Take of white pine bark after the ross is off, three pints, 

 of water three pints ; let it simmer down to one quart ; 

 strain it off; add half a pint of West India rum, half a pint, 

 of West India molasses ; the whole composition for a 

 grown person; half for a child. 



This remedy is simple, but may be depended on as ef- 

 fectual: it will seldom if ever fail. 



85. To destroy ivorins in a safe and sure way. 



Take a large tea spoonful of the rust of tin ; mix it 

 with a table spoc;iful of molasses. This is a valuable rem- 

 edy, it may be given in sickness or health. 



