1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

84 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

cation for recent scalds or burns. It may either be spread upon a cloth, or the parts affected may be anointed with it two or three times a day.

No. 35. LocatelUs Balsam,

Take 1 pint olive-oil. J

pound Strasbourg turpentine. J pound yellow wax. 6 drachms red saunders, pulv. Melt the wax with part of the oil over a gentle fire ; then add the remaining part of the oil and the turpentine ; afterward mix in the saunders, and keep stirring them together till the balsam is cold. This balsam is recommended in erosions of the intestines, dysentery, haemorrhages, internal bruises, and in complaints of the breast. The dose when taken internally is from 2 scruples to 2 drachms foi adults.

No. 36. To make German Bitters.

Take J pound gentian-root.

2 ounces bitter orange-peel. ^ ounce chamomile-flowers. cinnamon and cloves as much as you wish 1 quart whiskey. 2 ounces red saunders. Put all together in a bottle, and distil in the sun or near a warm stove for one week. Dese. — 1 table- spoonful in the evening before going to bed ; take