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mer them in fresh butter or hog's lard and sweet oil. A- 

 noint the parts with it, and drink tar water, half a gill 

 three times a day. — But if they are inward, or blind piles, 

 drink tar water twice a day, and essence of fir every night 

 going to bed, half a small glass. This effects a cure in 

 about two months. 



39. For the tooth ache^ if the tooth be hollow. 



Put into the hollow a piece of blue vitrol, as much as 

 the hollow will contain. Repeat it for several days and 

 it will kill the marrow. 



40. For the common Canker in children or adults. 



Take canker root, or cold water root, so called, be- 

 cause used with cold water; wash the root, pound it, steep 

 it in cold water, wash the tumour with the water, and 

 drink of it. This root grows in rich soil, in meadows, by 

 fences, stumps, or log-heaps. It comes up with a stalk 

 from the ground a yard or two high and then branches out 

 very large. Its leaf is like clover. The top of the root 

 is yellow as gold, in a bunch, then branches out into many 

 fibreS; some like plantain. 



41. For the Hooping Cough. 



A syrup made of elecampane root and honey, four oun- 

 ces of the root to half a pint of honey. Bake it in a well 

 glazed earthen pot in an oven half hot. If the root 

 be green, it needs no water; if dry, add half a pint of wa- 

 ter. A tea spoonful of the syrup for a small child^ add a 

 little if older, three times a day. 



42. For Rickets in Children — in the bowels. 



One ounce of Rhubarb powdered in one ounce of En- 

 ceviniris, put into one quart of wine or brandy. — If the 

 child is a year old, it may take a table spoonful at a time, 

 if older take more, to half a gill for an adult. If any part 

 of the body is affected with the disorder, bathe the part 

 with brandy, and drink turkey-root steeped in wine three 

 ©r faur times a day. 



43. A sure remedy for women"* s sore nipples. 



When the infant stops sucking, apply a plaster of bal- 

 sam fir. It will cure in three or four days. 



