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ed or bruised part of the tree, mixed with the oil 

 of hen's eggs, for a plaister. 



Another ]itasler for the Rheumalism. 

 Take hemlock bows and while pine bows, in 

 eqaal proportions — boil them till the balsam is 

 off; then skim off the balsam, and boil it down 

 thick enough to spread in a plaster. 



For a weak Stomach, 

 Take the balsam of a tamarac tree. You will 

 find it by whittling the wood open round the 

 bruised part — take it on sugar or in molasses. 



For the Dysentery. 

 Take a cork and burn it on coals, draw the 

 tea out of this, and take it — it has wrought a cure 

 v/ht::n the skill cf doctors has failed. 



Cure for sore Eyes. 



Take white vitriol as big as a white bean, the 

 same quantity ofloaf sugar, and a boiled or roast- 

 ed egg ; take out the yolk ; put the vitriol and 

 sugar into the white of the tgg^ and press them 

 till the juice isall out — apply it to the eyes at night, 

 Cii7'e for Poisoned Sheep and Cattle. 



Raw eggs, says die American Farmer, given 

 to sheep or cattle poi ironed by eating laurel or 

 ivy will effect a speedy cure. The dose for a 

 sheep is one. egg, for a cow four. When used 

 for this purpose the shell of the egg is broken, 

 and the yolk with as much of the white as is prac- 

 ticable is slipped down the animal's throat. 



For the Horn Ail hi CoAt!e. 

 Tiike of running- Ivy, by some called Mercury, half a pound of 

 vines and voolh ; — TIms is the tlimt; that poisons men when they 

 are mowing — Put it .no a pnil and a half of water, and boil it two 

 tlr.ids uway, or in the same proportion lor a greater or lesser quan- 

 tity. Ho not stand over the pot whilst it is bodint^. Give the beast 

 3 or 4j'iik bot'.les full at once according to the strtng-tli of thecrea- 

 ttirc, and •.he cure is effected. This s.ime medicine will also cure the 

 Gar.qet, and is good to g-:ve creatures in the spring to prevent dis- 

 eases, lialf a pinrormore of this tea given to a sheep a few times, 

 tha' Ingered ad refused her meat before and after lambing, has 

 been kaow» to cure. 



