1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 10. To make a liquid to remove Grease-spots out of Woollen Cloth. Take 1 quart spirits of wine, (alcohol.) 12 drops winter-green. 1 gill beef-gall. 6 cents' worth lavender. And a little alkanet, to colour, if you wish. Mix. No. 11. Another, to clean Woollen Cloth. Take equal parts spirits of hartshorn and ether. Or ox-gall mixed with it makes it better. 1 handful the inner bark of elder. 1 gill hog's lard. Boil all the above ingredients together, and, after it becomes cool, anoint the part a few times a dav. How to make Horse-Powder. Take J pound foenugreek-seed in powder J pound flour of sulphur. I pound antimony, powdered. J pound cream of tartar. I pound saltpetre, powdered. Mix all the above ingredients thoroughly. Dose. — 1 tablespoonful three times a week, mixed with their feed; and if the animal is sick, give every day. No. 13. No. 12. A certain and simple cure for Piles. Take 3 cigars ; rub them fine.