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bark— and put on a little goose greasQ a few times 

 when vou have washed it in rum. This has cur- 

 ed a child in four or five weeks that was scalded 

 down her neck and each side of her shoulder for 

 half a foot. It was said to be a very bad scald. 



A Plaster for a Pain in the back, or in the Side, 



Take some pitch from white pines that have 

 been slivered about a year — spread a plaster on 

 soft leather ; then powder camphor, and strew it 

 on the top of the pitch, and strew on as much 

 sulphur. 



For a Pain in the Stomach, or for the Bilious Choi- 

 ic, or any other Cholic^ and for the wind in the 

 Stomach. 



Take ginson root, (this is more properly cal- 

 led Bath root) a piece as big as from the end to 

 the joint of } our little finger for a child, and for 

 older persons accordingly --grate it fine, and steep 

 it in water, and drink it as warm as you can. 

 After pausing a little while, if it does not relieve, 

 give more in quantity. It is said by physicians 

 that it operates like laudanum on the human 

 frame. For the above complaints it has been 

 found to cure when nothing else would. 



For the Jaundice complaint in persons, or the over- 

 flow of the gall in creatart'S, 



Take white ash bark off the root, and poplar 

 bark off the root, and black cherry tree bark from 

 the body of the tree, in equal quantities — steep 

 them well — put the tea with cider, and drink of it 

 morning, noon and night, a tumbler full for a 

 person as long as he needs it — and a quart for 

 a creature, and repeat it until it physics his difli- 

 culty away. When they have this disorder, they 



