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To kill Rins^worms, 



Take a little spirit in a spoon, and put a tea- 

 spoonful of gun powder into it, rub it up fine 

 with the finger, and rub it on, audit scarcely ever 

 fails of curing it the first time it is put on. The 

 juice of wild celendine rubbed on repeatedly 

 will also cure : this juice will also cure other 

 cankerous humours. The oil of red corn pres- 

 sed out between hot irons and rubbed on several 

 times, will also cure the ringworm* 



Dr, John S.nith^s receipt for curing the Toothache, 



Take the bark of w^hite oak, the bark of baba- 

 ry root, the root of elecampane, and the root of 

 winter green, of each an equal quantity — boil 

 them over a slow fire until the strength is out ; 

 then add one half pint of black pismires, baked 

 in an oven in an earthen por, covered over with 

 a crust of doe ; then add this with the other ; 

 lioil them down to half a pint, stir in some flour, 

 and make it into pills suitable for the hollow in 

 the tooth — apply this for four or five times, and 

 it will effect a cure. 



The four first mentioned have proved a cure, 

 by holding the liquor in the mouth until the 

 strength is out, three or four times, as hot as you 

 can bear it. 



Elecampane root grated and made into a pill 

 and applied to the hole in the tooth, has relieved 

 the pain a little. 



31r Daniel Tenney^s receipt to cure Sore Eyes. 



Take one teaspoonful of white vitriol to two 

 spoonfuls of water, or mix in that proportion; 

 v*^et the eyes with the same at night, and rub it 

 in witl\ the end of your finger every night, and 



