1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 532. Another Cure for Piles.

Take flour of sulphur, 1 ounce ; pulverize, and mix well together.

rosin, 3 ounces

— What

Dose.

will lie on a five-cent-piece, night and morning, washing the parts freely in cold water once or twice a day. This is a remedy of great value.

No. 533. A Cure for Smalljoox. Take 1 grain each of powdered foxglove (digitalis) and sulphate of zinc. Kub together thoroughly in a mortar with 5 or 6 drops of water ; this done, add 4 or 5 ounces of water, and sweeten with loaf sugar. Dose. — A tablespoonful for an adult, and 1 or 2 tea- spoonfuls for a child, every 2 or 3 hours, until symp- toms of disease vanish. No. 534. A sure Remedy for Inflammatory Rheumatism. Take 1 ounce pulverized saltpetre and put it into a pint of sweet oil. Bathe the parts affected, and a sound cure will speedily be made.

No. 535. A certain Cure for Corns.

One teaspoonful tar, 1 teaspoonful coarse brown sugar, and 1 teaspoonful saltpetre; the whole to be warmed together. Spread it on kip leather the size of the corns, and in two days they will be drawn out.