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oftener if you ^^Icase, and thus continue until 

 they get well. The operation will be sharp but 

 without damage, h the cure will soon be wrought. 



To cure a Ftlon or Whitlow before it is ulcerated. 



Take the skin out of a good hen's ^^g^ and put 

 it on the felon, and keep it on until your are re- 

 lieved of the pain. 



For a weak Sloinack^and Consumptive ComplaintSi 



Take balsam copayva, and drop five or six 

 drops on sugar, or more, if you think proper. 



The best Plaster for rvenkness, or paiii in the back* 



Is to take balsam from the cracked or bruised 

 part of the hemlock tree — -prepare a plaster of it 

 the bigness of your hand, by warming by the 

 lire, not heating it — spread it thinish. If it bhs- 

 ters 59 that the plaster comes off, you may makq 

 it stick again by warming it, and the efiect will 

 be very good. . 



To cure Corns, 



Mix pulverized chalk with soap, sufficient for 

 a salve to spread into a plaster, and bind it on 

 the corn two or three times, or more, if needed. 



For a Cough, 



Make a candy by boiling down hoarhound in 

 molasses — Take a piece as big as a walnut, 

 night and morning, or more, if you think proper. 



ForFev&rs. 



The soldiers iw the late war, at Burlington, 

 were visited with ihe putrid nervous fever (it is 

 called the typhus) and many of them were taken 

 away. Many things were tried without effect ta 



