p's Tallow, Beeswax one oz., one-half oz.
Sweet Oil, one-half oz. Red Lead, two ozs. Gum Camphor. Fry all these
together in a stone dish. Continue to simmer for 4 hours. Spread on
green basswood leaves or paper and apply to the sore.
MAGNETIC OINTMENT.--One lb. Elder Bark, one lb. Spikenard Root, one lb.
Yellow Dock Root. Boil in two gallons of water down to one, then press
the strength out of the bark and roots and boil the liquid down to
one-half gallon. Add 8 lbs. of best Resin, one lb. Beeswax, and Tallow
enough to soften. Apply to the sores, etc., by spreading on linen
cloth.
OINTMENT STRAMONIUM.--One lb. Stramonium Leaves, three lbs. Lard,
one-half lb. Yellow Wax. Boil the Stramonium Leaves in the Lard until
they become pliable, then strain through linen. Lastly add the wax
previously melted and stir until they are cold. This a useful anodyne
application in irritable ulcers, painful hemorrhoids, and in cutaneous
eruptions.
CATHARTIC PILLS.--One-half oz. extract Colacinth, in powder, three
drms. Jolop in powder, three drms. Calomel, two scru. Gamboge in
powder. Mix these together and with water form into mass and roll into
180 pills. Dose, one pill as a mild laxative, two in vigorous
operations. Use in all bilious diseases when purges are necessary.
FOR HEARTBURN--LOZENGES.--One oz. Gum Arabic, one oz. pulverized
Licorice Root, one-fourth oz. Magnesia. Add water to make into
lozenges. Let dissolve in mouth and swallow.
ANOTHER COUGH CURE--(GOOD).--Take the white of an egg and pulverized
sugar; beat to a froth. Take a tablespoonful every hour for 3 or 4
hours.
TETTER OINTMENT.--One oz. Spirits Turpentine, one ounce Red Precipitate
in powder, one oz. Burgundy Pitch in powder, one lb. Hog's Lard. Melt
all these ingredients over a slow fire until the ointment is formed.
Stir until cold. Spread on a linen rag and apply to the parts affected.
A SURE CURE FOR PILES.--Confection of Senna, two ozs., Cream of Tartar
one oz., Sulphur one oz., Syrup of Ginger, enough to make a stiff
paste; mix. A piece as large as a nut is to be taken as often as
necessary to keep the bowels open. One of the best remedies known.
DIPHTHERIA.--Take a clean clay tobacco pipe, put a live coal in it,
then put common tar on the fire and smoke it, inhaling and breathing
back through the nostrils.
FEVER AND AGUE.--Quinine one scru., Elixir Vitriol one drm. Dissolve
the Quinine in the Elixir and Tinc. of Black Cohash fourteen drops.
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