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56. For the Dropsy. 



Sassafras bark of the root one pound, prickly ash bark 

 one pound, spice wood bush half a pound, three ounces of 

 garlics, four ounces of parsley roots, four ounces of horse 

 radish roots, four ounces of black birch bark — boil all ia 

 three gallons of malt beer. Drink a gill three tinies a 

 day. 



57. To stop a fever sore from coming to a head, and carry 

 it away. 



Sweat it with flannel cloths dipt in hot brine. The 

 cloths must be changed as often as they are cold, for three 

 hours, then wash it in brandy and wrap it in flannel; re- 

 peat it three or four times. 



58. To stop puking. 



Take gum camphor, pound it, pour on boiling water? 

 lei the patient drink a spoonful _every ten minutes. It 

 must be sweetened with loaf sugar. Or take a handful of 

 green wheat, or grass, pound it, pour a httle water on it, 

 press out the juice, and let the patient drink a spoonful 

 once in ten minutes. 



59. For the Loch Jaw. 



When any person is taken with the lock jaw, give him 

 five grains of Dover's powders, then set him in a tub of 

 hot water, as hot as he can bear it, bathe his head with 

 camphorated spirits, let him sit or stand in the water as 

 long as he can bear it without fainting, and bleed him if 

 possible. Repeat this three or four times; when out of 

 the water put him in a warm bed, wrapped in flannel. 



60. For the Numb Palsy. 



When a person is taken with the numb palsy_, let blood 

 freely if possible, give a table spoonful of flour of sulphur 

 once an hour, bathe the part affected with spirits of harts- 

 horn, take one pound of roll brimstone, boil it in four 

 quarts of water to one quart, let the patient drink a table 

 spoonful once an hour. If applied early, will finally car- 

 ry it off. 



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