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two ounces stick lickorisb, pui the same into 4 quarts 

 of water, and boil it down one half ; strain and sweet- 

 en it with half a pound of loaf sugar. 



Cure for Consumption. 



Take half a pound of spikenard, one pound of ciim- 

 frej, half a pound of elecampane, put them into four 

 quarts of water, and boil it down one half — strain it, 

 and add one pound of loaf sugar. 



Worm Pills. 



Take butternut buds in the spring of the year, dry 

 them and grind them to powder, make the powder in- 

 to pills of the bigness of a small pea, and take one 

 when going to bed at night. 



Cure for puking up food. 



Take an old pipe, and powder the same — take frotn 

 half to a teaspoonful on an empty stomach in the 

 morning. 



Cure for a bad Cough. 



Take of loaf sugar, sweet oil and spirits of 

 hartshorn, an equal quantity, and mi^ them to- 

 gether about the thickness of honey ; take a tea- 

 spoonful when the cough is troublesome. 



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To make a Plaster to be put on the bottom of tk^ 

 fiet, ivhen the head is pressed with hypocondriack 

 and humour. 



Take a potion of tar, and a little more turpen- 

 tine than tar, warm these on the fire and mix 

 them, and thicken it up with ginger, sufficient 

 for a plaster, and lay it on to the bottom of the 

 feet, as large as you conveniently can, and let it 

 remain as long as it will stick, (it m^y be three 

 weeks) and repeat it. 



