5. For the Salt Rheum. 



Take swamp sassafras bark, boil it in water very strong, 

 take some of the water and wash the part affected; to the 

 remainder of the water add hog's lard, simmer it over a 

 moderate fire till the water is gone, Oint the part affect- 

 ed after washing, (continued four days,) never fails of a 

 cure. 



6. Salve for a Burn. 



Take wild lavender, the green of elder bark, cammo- 

 mile, and parsley, and stew them in fresh butter, strain off, 

 and add to it beeswax, rosin, and white diacalon, equal 

 parts. If a burn is of a longtime standing, and discharg- 

 es very much, take mutton suet before it is tried, pound it 

 up with chalk to the consistence of salve. This cures the 

 most inveterate old sores of the kind. 



7. The best Salve for JVomen^s sore Breasts ever found. 



Take one pound of tobacco, one pound spikenard, half 

 a pound cumfrey, and boil them in three quarts of cham- 

 ber ley till almost dry ; squeeze out the juice, add to it 

 pitch and beeswax, and simmer it over a moderate heat to 

 the consistence of salve. Apply it to the part afi'ected. 



8. An ointment to supple stiff joints and shrunk sinews. 



Take half a pound hog's lard; put into it a small hand- 

 ful of melolet (or Melilot) green, stew it well together, 

 strain it off, add to it one ounce rattle-snake's grease, do. 

 of olive oil, ten drops of oil lavender, mixed well together, 

 Oint three times a day and rub it in well with the hand. 



9. A valuable cure for inveterate old sore legs. 



Take the bark of cavrOn wood or shrub maple, boil it 

 very strong, take part of the liquor and boil it down to a 

 salve, and wash the part affected every time it is dressed. 

 Apply new salve twice a day. Make a tea of the same, 

 and drink three times a day. 



10. To cure the bite of a rattle snake. 



Take green hoarhound tops, pound them fine, press out 

 the juice, let the patient drink a table spoonful of the juice, 

 morn, noon, and night, or three times in twenty-four 

 hours ; apply the pounded herbs to the bite, change the 

 same twice a day. The patient may drink a spoonful of 

 sweet olive oil. This seldom fails curing. 



