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For Worms » 



Make a fine powder of black or spotted alder 

 bark, that bears the red plumb, scraping the bark 

 down — give it to the child in molasses, or any 

 thing handy. This has cured when the skill of 

 the physician failed. 



For Sore Eyes. 



When your eyes begin to be sore, wash them 

 in cider a few times, night and morning. This 

 has cured. 



For Consumptive Complaints, 



For a person that has strained his stomacb, and has 

 other consumptive complaints ; or for a person that 

 has consumptive complaints without this sprain, 

 such as the following, viz. pain in the stomach 

 or side, headache, and often attended with cough. 

 Cure — Make one quart of good tea of the herb called 

 vervine, by boiling it in cider, strain it and bottle it 

 up, and take a glass night and morning, or less as 

 you are able — repeat this quantity as long as it helps 

 you. There are two kinds of vervine, blue and 

 white; use the blue for women, and the white for 

 men, if you can get them, if not, use (he kind or kinds 

 you can get. This has relieved the youth and aged, 

 and has been used by an approved physician in 

 Portsmouth, 



For a humour in the Leg by a hurt or Mrain» 



There was a man amongst us about sixty years of 

 «ge, that travelled in the snow and strained liis leg, 

 by which the humour settled, and in a little while it 

 ■was useless. The doctor of the towrt attended it 

 •without success ; and there was a doctor cor^sulted in 

 an adjacent town, of Uncommon information. His di- 

 rection was, go to a spring and get frogs sufficient to 

 cover his leg, when they were baked well in brir.-:;iy 

 in an earthen pot. so a» to stir them ui) like a thin 



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