242 MISCELLANEOUS RECFIPTS. 



ITCH OINTMENT (FOR MAN). 



I oz. red precipitate ; I oz. spirits of turpentine ; 2 oz. Buigundj 

 pitch ; % Ib. fresh butter. Melt the butter and pitch, and add the 

 other ingredients, stirring until cold. 



VEGETABLE CAUSTIC. 



Make a strong lye of hickory or oak ashes, put into an iron kettle, 

 and evaporate to the consistence of thin molasses ; then remove into 

 a sand bath, and continue the evaporation to the consistency of honey. 

 Keep it in a ground stopped glass jar. 



This caustic is very valuable in fistulas, cancers, scrofulas and indo- 

 lent ulcers, particularly where there are sinuses, necrosis (or decay of 

 bone), and in all cases where there is proud flesh ; and also to excite a 

 healthy action of the parts. It removes fungous flesh without exciting 

 inflammation, and acts but little except on spongy or soft flesh. 



A VALUABLE REMEDY (CLIPPED FROM THE PRESS). 



Every family should keep a quantity of chlorate of potash. We 

 have never found anything equal to it for a simple ulcerated sore 

 throat. Dissolve a small teaspoonful of it in a tumbler of water, and 

 then occasionally take a spoonful of the solution so as to gargle the 

 throat. It is nearly tasteless and not at all offensive to take, and is 

 hence well adapted to children. Nothing is better than this for chap- 

 ped or cracked hands. Wash them in a weak solution and they will 

 soon be well. It is also good for a rough, pimply or chapped face. 

 It may be procured at any druggist's. 



SORE MOUTH. 



The lips frequently become sore at the angles of the mouth, from 

 cutting or bruising of the bit. Tincture of myrrh and aloes, equal 

 parts, applied to the sore, will soon cause it to heal. 



A VERY FINE HEALING PREPARATION FOR CUTS. 



Equal parts tine, myrrh and balsam copaiba. To be used once a 

 day. This is the favorite remedy of one of the most successful horse- 

 men, a man of good sense and remarkably successful. It is one of the 

 best of healing remedies. 



TO CURE BOILS. 



Two parts cream tartar, one part sulphur, one pirt whisky. (About 

 four cents' worth of each of the two.) 



Take one tablespoonful three mornings ; then skip three mornings, 

 and so on, for nine mornings. Obtained by an old man, and claimed 

 to be an infallible cure. 



