CUKE FOE HEADACHE. 1073 



HUMAN REMEDIES. 



THE prescriptions here following, among which will be found 

 several of great value, have been obtained at considerable expense 

 and trouble. The great value with which my old book, The New 

 System, is held, is chiefly owing to the recipes given in it, all of 

 which will be found under the various heads in this. This ap- 

 preciation has induced me to add the recipes here following. 

 Those for headache, hydrophobia, tape- worm, etc., are specially 

 valuable. These recipes are worth more than the cost of the 

 book. 



" CUBE FOR TAPE- WORM. 



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" My symptoms while harboring a tape-worm were most notice- 

 ably a depression of mind, caused, I suppose, by weakness for which 

 I could see no cause (not then knowing its existence). Had a good 

 appetite not at all inordinate, only 1 would havo a desire to eat 

 within two hours after a good meal. I grew weaker daily, it 

 seemed to me ; in fact, I was starving. 



" Cure. I bought about two quarts of pumpkin seeds, peeled 

 them, pounded the meats fine in a mortar ; took a teacup half full, 

 added water to make it tbo consistency of a thick gruel, and ate 

 it with my breakfast and dinner. The third dose brought the 

 " varmint," though I persisted in taking three more doses, BO as to 

 be sure and get away the head and neck, which are about tho size 

 of a darning-needle. Unless tbab comes away, it will grow again. 

 The dose above named will cause Bomo pain, as a physic, but it is 

 in no way dangerous. It is a poison only to the worms. 

 "SAMUEL B. MORSE, 



" 6th Aud. Office, Treas. Dep't., 



" Washington, D. C." 



See top page 911, where another modification of the remedy is 

 given, as used by a well known veterinary surgeon of New York 

 City. Would particularly call attention to how to use it, espe- 

 cially so far as the fasting before taking it ; next the taking of a 

 brisk cathartic afterwards. 



CURE FOR HEADACHE. 



Ferocyannate of quinine, 60 grains; valerinate zinc, 20 grains; 

 solid extract hyoscyamius, 20 grains. Make into 20 pills. Take 

 one pill three times a day, before meals, for three days; then stop 

 three days, unless it is about time for the return of the headache; 



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