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For Cough or Cold. 



Take tea made of hoarhound, one teacup full 

 ] light and morning. This frequently relieves. , 



For the Canker, 



Take 2 or 3 red pepj^ers, make a strong tea 

 of them and give it to the person, I'his, though 

 harsh, will relieve in fifteen minutes, wonderfully. 



, For a Cold. 



Take the vines of five-finger, make a good tea 

 of it, and give to the person frequently. 



For the Dysentery. 



Make a good tea of five-finger vines and roots, 

 and give it frequently to the person. 



For a Fever* 



Make a good tea of five-finger roots, and give 

 it sufiiciently to the person. This has been 

 known to care a fever after a person has had it 

 four or five days. 



For a Cough. 



Take witchwood bark, and make a good tea of 



it — take a teaspoonful at going to bed and in the 



morning foraboutthreedays,or longer if necessary. 



■ Elecampane is good to loosen a cough — take 



I piece as large as a common white bean. 



For a Gre$n Wound j or Cut. 



Make a tent of linen lint, and wet it in spirits 



of turpentine and lay it into the wound, and 



diere kt it \^ until it heals — by wetting it with 



a feather dipped in the same spirits, morning 



and evening. 



For the Dropsy. 

 A tea of dwarf elder root, coatinually drank, 

 has cured tlie dropsy. 



