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To prevent Morlificatwn in brutes or human heino's. 

 Make a tea of .his root and wash frequently. 



Receipt for a Weak Stomach. 



Take the plumbs of this wonderful root, pos- 

 sessing many names, and put them in spirits, 

 and make the spirits strong with them, lake it 

 from time to time. The effect will be good. 



For weakness in mentor female weakness or weak- 



tiesses. 

 Take two or two and a half pails full of dou- 

 ble tansy closely packed in a pot, put on a tin 

 still, draw out two quarts of essence, add a quar- 

 ter of spirits or less, so as to keep it, cork it up. 

 Take a glass at a time, half an hour before eating, 

 two or three times a day, &. thus continue till you 

 take a quart or more. If you use single tansy you 

 must use twice the quantity above mentioned. 



For Ague or Cold in the Face^ or any part of the 



body. 



Take the life of man root and pound it fine,, 

 and simmer it m new milk, stir in a little wheat 

 flower so as to make it hold together. Apply it 

 as a poultice. 



Another for the Ague in the Face, 



Take rum, mix it with wheat flower, lay it on 

 for a poultice. This has performed great cures. . 



To dissolve the stone in the bladder. 



Take golden red tea, by simmering and not 

 by boiling. When the tea is made simmer, 

 twelve honey bees in the tea for a man, nine for 

 a woman. 



Another for the stone in the bladder. 



Make a tea of juniper bt^rries anH noble pine> 

 called by some pip cisseway , by simmering it to- 



