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ed or bruised part of the tree, mixed with the oil 

 of hen's eggs, for a plaister. 



Another ptasler for the Rheumalism. 

 Take hemlock bows and while pine bows, in 

 equal proportions — boil them till the balsam is 

 off; then skim off the balsam, and boil it down 

 thick enough to spread in a plaster. 



For a weak Stomach, 

 Take the balsam of a tamarac tree. You will 

 find it by whitding the wood open round the 

 bruised part — take it on sugar or in molasses. 



For the Dysentery. 

 Take a cork and burn it on coals, draw the 

 tea out of this, and take it — it has wrought a cure 

 v/ht::n the skiii cf doctors has failed. 



Cure for sore Fyes. 



Take white vitriol as big as a white bean, the 

 same quantity ofloaf sugar, and a boiled or roast- 

 ed egg ; take out the yolk ; put the vitriol and 

 sugar into the white of the G^g^ and press them 

 till the juice isall out — apply it to the eyes at nighty 

 Cni'e for Poisoned Sheep and Cattle. 



Raw c:gg% says die American Farmer, gi^-'en 

 to sheep or cattle poisoned by eating laurel or 

 ivy will effect a speedy cure. The dose for a 

 sheep is one egg, for a cow four. When used 

 for this purpose the shell of the egg is broken, 

 and the yolk with as much of the white as is prac- 

 ticable is slipped down the animal's throat. 



For the Horn Ail in Cattle. 

 Ti»"ke of running' hy, by .^oine called Mcicuty, half a pound of 

 vines and vootb ; — I'his is the tliins^ that poisons men when they 

 are mowing — Put it .no a pail and a iialf of water, and boil it two 

 th'.rds uway, or in the same proportion for a greater or lesser quan- 

 tity. Do not stand over tlie pot whilst it is boiling. Give the beast 

 3 or 4 ;•! ik bodies full at once according to the strtngtli of the crea- 

 tine, and *. he cure isefftcted. This &\ime medicine will also cure the 

 Gai'get, and is good to give creaiures in the spring to prevent dis- 

 eases, half a pint ormoi-e o{ this tea given to a sheep a few times, 

 tha' hngered ad refused her meat before and after lambing, has. 

 been known to cure. 



