4. If the case is obstinate, give one dose of No. 24, to move the perspiration.

5. Then save the urine, (say a pint) mix it into a cake with rye meal, and burn it slowly behind the back log twice or three times, (per sympathy.)

6. Give Chalybeate Oxmel, (No. 44.)

Doctor Hole relates, that he was cured of an obstinate habit of the Jaundice, into which he had several times relapsed, and which he had proved on others for twenty years, with the most happy success. The process is as follows:

1. Put wild Cherry bark into stale cider, (say a double handful to two quarts.)

2. Take the scale that forms on an old chimney back-wall, or on an old iron tramel, (scrape off a good handful) and make a decoction.Drink turn about of each of these, five or six times a day, as much as the stomach can take, and follow it up till the cure is perfected. Probably there is a good portion of Oxigen in the scale that is generated by smoke. See note, No. 44. You can have choice, and if one thing wont do, try the other.

No. 41.

Pills for the Jaundice.

Take three ounces of China Rhubarb, powdered (No. 6) one drachm of Myrrh, and one drachm of Alloes, rub them fine, and put altogether, and moisten it with spirits to form a mass of Pills. They must be made up soon, or they

become hard. I choose always to keep some of this preparation by me in a roll; I can then put some of it into a phial of spirits, so that a tea spoonful will be a dose. This roll will make excellent bitters, will be an antidote against Dysentery, excess of Bile, the Jaundice, &c.

A little matter of these pills, will answer to relieve costiveness; they answer best, gently or gradually taken; they will then strengthen the system. In this they will be good in Diarrhoea or fluxes, but are not equal to No. 25.

No. 42.

An Antidote for Epidemic Diseases.

Prepare you a few Brimstone matches, and a bottle half full of spirits; light a match and thrust it into the mouth of the bottle, so as to fill the empty part with smoke. When the match is taken out, put your thumb on the mouth, and shake the spirits, to incorporate the smoke what they can. Do thus with several matches.

This I had from a very old man, when I was but a little boy. I remember he said, a dram of this rum will keep you from catching the SmallPox or Meazles; yes, if you will drink a dram of this in the morning, you may go safely where the plague is all day. But I rather suppose it had better be taken morning, noon and night.-I tried it myself before I had the Small-Pox.— See Antidote, No. 5.

No. 43.

Huron's Cure for the Dropsy.

Take Bitter Sweet Root, White Roots of Elder, Horse Radish Roots, of each a large handful, steep them in one gallon of Cider. Take a tea cup full in the morning, and always before meal times through the day.

In a very weak case, a jelly of calf's-feet is to be eaten cold, with vinegar. If the stomach rejects food, a little Elixer of Vitriol made into punch, may be allowed. Diet is not to be high seasoned, but any kind to be liberally used, that the stomach will take. This medicine may be prepared with Vinegar, or even with water where cider can not be had. This receipt came to me well attested; by it was performed several singular cures, after patients were given over by physicians for lost.

A single instance experienced but in one trial, from a child of my own I wish to relate.

My youngest daughter, when about two years old, lost her appetite, became uncommonly disposed to sleep, her sprightliness turned to stupidity, and in a few days she became bloated and apparently filled with water or dropsical swelling in her whole frame; and as I could not conceive how I could administer any means of relief to her by any thing I could give her internally, I studied to endeavour it by an external application.

I took Horse Radish and Spiknard Root, (two diureticks) equal quantities, pounded them in a mortar, green, and applied them by way of poltice to the bottoms of her feet. The wished for

effect, a plentiful emission of urine took place, & cleared the dropsy in about forty-eight hours. I gave her a few doses of Linseed Oil, agreeably to No. 55, and she soon became well and hearty. But try the following (No. 44) for the Drop

sy.

Take two

No. 44.

Chalybeate Oxymel.

ounces of Columbo Root,* one drachm of Virginia Snake Root, twenty tenpenny Nails, and one quart of good Vinegar, put them together in an iron pot; simmer it a little over fire; then let it stand forty-eight hours; then boil it down to a pint; strain and wring out the liquor, and return it into the pot; then add one pound of sugar and a gill of spirits; simmer it down on coals to the consistence of molasses, and bottle it up for use.

The common dose for a grown person may be a tea-spoonful, morning, noon and night, when the stomach is empty, about ten minutes before meals; but begin with less, and increase the dose, as you find the stomach can bear it.

The intention of this medicine is to recruit the blood, and strengthen the system. It may be taken a week, and then miss a week; and then take it again; and so at intervals renew the

The Columbo Root, if left in whole pieces, may afterwards be strung and dried, it will then be good to chew, or to be used instead of barks.

course, more or less, until the patient is quite well and strong.

In consumptive cases the person should drink ground ivy or agrimoney tea, for two or three days at a time, and then miss as long, and then resume it again. The latter of these herbs is preferred for bracing and giving strength, but the former is conceived to touch the disorders of the liver.

This medicine will be found a superior remedy for worms, as those vermin cannot live with the iron. It is most excellent for the weaknesses of women, either under suppressions, or in excess of the fluor of either kind. But when it takes place, the doses should be omitted until it subsides. It may be given to finish the cure of fevers in general. It merits a trial in all reduced and low cases of the blood, such as consumption, dropsy, asthma, jaundice, derangement, &c. to recruit the oxygen,* or iron property in the blood; a deficiency of which, as I conceive, is the radical cause of these diseases.

Healthy persons have a right proportion of oxygen; but an excess or deficiency may either of them be the occasion of disease. The excess

Take notice-There is a certain part of our bodily substance that I call oxygen, or iron; this is the basis of strength. There is abundantly more oxygen in the blood than in any part of us. When blood is taken in a vessel and stands to be cold-1. There is the clods, or viscid, tenacious part, called the grume: 2. The thin and watery part, called the serum. It is said there is much more iron in the serum than in the grume.