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S\. To cure vegetable poisoUj running fivi/, or poison elder j 

 or any other. 



Take rosemary leaves or blossoms, make a tea of it to 

 drink morn and night, like bohea tea or any other. Or, 

 take wild turnips, if green pound them and press out the 

 juice, if dry boil them in fair water, wash the part af- 

 fected with the clear liquor. Take part of the liquor, add 

 to it a little saffron and camphor, and drink to cleanse the 

 fluids and guard the stomach. 



62. For the spinevantosey thai comes in the breast. 



Take spikenard root, comfrey root, yellow oak bark, 

 tobacco, boil them in water, strong, take out some of the 

 liquor to wash the tumour, add to the rest hog's lard or 

 mutton tallow, beeswax and rosin, simmer it over a slow 

 fire, stir it constantly until it is salve, apply it to the 

 sore, physic with mandrake roots three or four times. 

 Bleed once. 



63. To cure iiuvard Ulcers. 



Sassafras root bark two ounces, coltsfoot root two 

 ounces, bloodroot two ounces, gum myrrh one ounce, 

 steeped in two quarts of spirits. Drink a small glass ev- 

 ery morning. Live on simple diet as much as possible. 

 For constant drink, make a beer of barley malt,one peck, 

 spikenard root two pounds, comfrey root one pound, 

 burdock roots two pounds, black spruce boughs five 

 pounds, angelica root one pound, fennel seed four ounc- 

 es, for ten gallons of beer. Drink one quart a day. 

 Let your exercise be light. 



64 For the catarrh in the head. 



Take yellow dock root, split it and dry it in an oven, 

 blood root and scoke root, four ounces of each, cinnamon 

 one ounce, cloves half an ounce, pound them very fine, 

 let the patient use it as snuff eight or ten times a day. 

 Every night smoke a pipe full of cinnamon mixed with a 

 little tobacco, and sweat the head with hemlock, brandy 

 and camphor. Pour a little comphorated spirits and 

 brandy into the hot liquor to sweat. 



