1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 29. Ointment for Piles. No. 1. Take 1 scruple powdered opium. 2 scruples flour of sulphur. 1 ounce simple cerate.

Keep the affected part well anointed ; be prudent in your diet; don't eat too much; keep in pure air; have abundance of exercise, &c. With strict regard to these directions, the dreadfui complaint we have alluded to will depart and give you no more affliction.

No. 30. To make Simple Cerate. Take 1 pound white wax.

4 pounds lard or mutton-suet. Melt them with a gentle heat, and stir it well until cool. — Yellow wax will answer the same purpose. No. 31. A cure for G-iddiness. Take 2 ounces Epsom salts. 1 ounce senna. 1 pint wine. Distil in the sun or a warm stove a few days. (Ready.) Dose. — Take as much as will physic you tho- roughly the tirst day, and after that take as much as will physic you once a day: take it in the morn- ing, sober. This cured a case of seven years' stand- l!T.B.