44. A cure for itching heels or feet, or ribbed heels. 



Take any kind of tallow and tallow the part affected 

 with it, and rub it in by a hot fire at night going to bed. 

 Repeat it three or four times. 



45. A preservative against all sorts of bilious fevers. 



The fulness of bile is the cause of all sorts of fevers, 

 and jaundice, and bilious colic, and cholera morbus. Phy- 

 sic often with blood root and mandrake roots mixed to- 

 gether, once a quarter, and make small beer with elder 

 roots, spruce boughs, burdock roots, hops, white ash bark, 

 sars^parilla roots and spikenard. Make a bitter with uni- 

 corn roots and bark, of white wood rooti and the yellow 

 dust of hops. If a family will continue this method they 

 will never be troubled with fevers. 



46. For convulsion Fits. 



Take convulsion roots, make a tea of them and drink, ov 

 powder them and take the powder in small doses. — Con- 

 vulsion root grows in timber land, and comes up in July, 

 with a bunch of white stalks about six or eight inches high, 

 with a little knob on the top. It has no leaves. The top 

 and root are for use. The root is a bunch of small fibres, 

 very numerous, and full of little knobs about the size of 

 mustard seed, and they grow just under the leaves. 



47. For the Consumption. 



Take half a bushel of barley malt, put it into a large 

 tub, take six pails of water, make it boil, pour it on to the 

 malt, let it stand six hours, take half a bushel of white pine 

 bark, one pound spikenard root, one pound Syria grass, 

 boil them in the water that the malt is soaked in, half 

 away, then put it into a keg, add yeast or emptins to it, 

 let it ferment, then bottle it up, and drink one pint a day. 



48. For the Quinsy in the throat. 



Sweat the throat with spotted cardis boiled in milk and 

 water, by holding a pot of it under the throat as hot as 

 can be borne, and hold some of it in the mouth, and when 

 the swelling is gone down, wear apiece of black silk about 

 the neck constantly, and it will prevent quinsy from com^ 

 ing again. 



