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cTioi it. do so three times, then give one glass at a time 

 three times in a day, if needed. 



For theGravel,take bald spruce balls and make a strong 

 tea, and drink once an hour, and it will relieve the dis- 

 tress. 



Toothache. 



For the toothache, take moose-wood bark, boil it, and 

 hold it in the mouth, and it will kill the marrow of the 

 tooth. 



For the tooth-ache, take onions, or an onion, roast it 

 soft, put as much salt as onion, m-ake a poultice and bind 

 them on the wrists. 



Piles. 



For the Piles, mullen tops in bloom •, make a te^ oPit 

 in water, wet a ra^ in the same, grate some heauock tur- 

 pentine that gathers on the cracked part of the tree, on 

 the rag for a plaster; apply the same. 



TVeakne^. 



For inward weakness and female complaints, take one 

 ounce of white corhash roots, dry them, and pound them 

 to powder, and put them into two quarts of new rum and 

 half a pint of molasses — shake them together and let it 

 stand twenty-four hours, then take half a wine glass full at 

 a time two or three times a day, and if exposed to cold, at 

 other times also. 



Hungry Evil. 



For the evil, take garden wormwood, hemlock boughs, 

 peppermint herbs, elder flowers, penny-royal herbs, put 

 them in water, and draw the tea out of them; this is the 

 medicine for steaming the face when a person has a cold 

 or swelling under the chops. 



Tobacco simmered in hog's fat, rubbed on for the can- 

 cer or humour hx the breast. 



Catarrh. 

 For the catarrh, make and take snuff from the bark of 

 bayberry root. 



Cracked and Swelled Hands. 

 Red pitch-pine gum is good for cracked fingers. 

 Fresh pitch-pine turpentine,applied to a sweiiiug is good. 



Asthma. 

 Take the lights of a fox,wash them clean and drv them, 

 then grind them to ajpowder, put them with two quart- of 

 §ood biaady, let the whole stand twenty-lour hours, then 



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