A POEM. 65 



Is also cured, if alum water you 

 Like plan, as often on the lips pursue. 



For Colds and Coughs, this remedy obtains, 

 Antimoniai powder, but five grains, 

 Calomel four ; divide, and make two pills, 

 With honey sweet, you quickly cure these ills : 

 If one each night successive, you bestow, 

 The patients shortly convalescent grow. 



If they are ever plagued with fleas or lice, 

 The under-mentioned liquor, in a trice, 

 Affords relief : one quarter of a pound 

 Of strong soft soap, with drachm of arsenic's found, 

 When simmer'd for a quarter of an hour, 

 In water, t' answer well ; when settled, pour 

 From off the dregs, and dress, their comfort to 

 restore. 



