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the cancer is raw, pound the salts to powder and 

 put a little into it, if there is proud flesh. 



^lake a salve of red clover heads, pick them 

 when in fuli bloom, and boil them about three 

 hours, then press them and strain the water, then 

 boil it down gently. When about one pint, then 

 put it into earthen, simmer it down gently and 

 not burn it, then spread a plaster on a linen rag 

 and apply it to the cancer. 



Make a tea of clover heads, for constant drink, 

 and drink nothing else, and wash the sore as of- 

 ten as you dress if in the same. Gather the clo- 

 ver heads when in full bloom, and dry them well 

 widiout dew, if you have need to keep them. 



Make an ointment of fresh butter, simmer the 

 butter on a fire to an oil, then apply it to the sore, 

 round the edge with a feather, once in two days, 

 and oftei er if it does not heal too fast. 



Take garget berries when ripe, and squeeze 



the juice out, and put it into an earthen pot and 



^ set it in the sun, and dry it to a salve : then ap- 



^ ply 'it to the cancer on a clean linen rag, if you 



can get them. 



For a person that is in a Decline, 



For any person that is in a decline and has a 

 cough, and raises blood, buy a bottle of Riga 

 balsam, and take five or six drops at a time, and 

 keep gaining until you can take a teaspoonfui at 

 a time. Take white coharsh roots, Indian roots, 

 and -black alder berries, and make a strong bit- 

 ter, and put them into new rum, equal in quan* 

 tity and sweeten it with molasses, and take it 

 ..morning &: evening, or at eleven o'clock. Take 

 all the above mentioned balsam before you med- 

 dle with the bitter. Take it in the morniiig. 



