290 avery's own fakrier. 



No. 26. — To TAKE A Film from the Eye. 



Take sugar of lead, make it very fine, blow a little of 

 it into the eye, morning and evening, by means of an oat 

 straw, and when the film is nearly consumed, apply a drop 

 of hen's oil once or twice a day until well. 



No. 27.— ^OR A Cough or Phthisic. 



Smoking the dried leaves of rosemary, shred small, in 

 a tobacco pipe, will help those troubled with a cough or 

 phthisic, or of a consumptive habit, by warming and 

 drying the thin distillations which cause those diseases. 



No. 28. — For the Heart Disease. 



Make a decoction of the dried leaves of red roses with 

 wine, and apply it to the region of the heart, with a 

 sponge, or let the leaves remain in, and bind them on over 

 where your heart beats, shifting them often till you find 

 relief. 



No. 29.— For a Burn. 



Take an oniun and cut it in halves, warm it a little 

 (but not roast it), and bind it on the affected part; it 

 will stop the soreness and the inflammation, by drawing 

 out the humors, which always accompany a burn if not 

 prevented. 



No. 30. — To Cure Vegetable Poison. 



Take yellow-blowed celandine, hawk weed and toad 

 plantain, equal parts — bruise them fine, and boil them in 

 milk suflBcient to get the strength of the vegetables. 

 "Wash the aflfected part with this several times a day, 



