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take a pint of this when you go to bed, or as 

 much as your stomach can bear — sleep on your 

 back, if you can. By thus poulticing the bow- 

 els, deliverance has been wrought when medical 

 skill has failed. Continue this till quite well. 



Cure for Corns on the feet. 



Chew a few white beans to a pap, then rub 

 them on your corns smardy for five or six min- 

 utes — take some more thus chewed and bind 

 them on the corns for a plaster, and thus do three 

 or four times. 



It has been said that spider's web wet in good 

 vinegar and bound on the corns a few times, 

 will cure them. 



For the Wind Colick. 



Take a table spoonful of dragon root, made 

 fine and mixed with molasses, for a grown per- 

 son, and for lesser persons in proportion, accord- 

 ing to stature and complaint. 



For the mother Colick — il is sometimes called Hys- 



ierick Colick, 



Take a limb from the most pleasant sour 

 apple tree, as big as your little finger, take the 

 bark of this for six inches, put it into a teacup^ 

 of boiling water, or a little more, setting it off 

 the fire, stirring it while it comes the colour of 

 weakish tea — take one teacup full and give it to 

 the person, and it will produce fearful feelings, 

 working a real cure. 



For a breach in personsy or creatures. 



Take the oil of hen's eggs, when it is first 

 done, and oint the place once a day for two or 

 tlirce days. In order to get this oil, take four 

 or six eggs, placing them in a spider or frying 



