1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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it stand 12 hours; put it iii

well.

No. 49. Another excellent Simple Salve for Wounds in Horses. Take lime-water as much as you will ; pour into it linseed-oil, and stir it well all the time until it is the consistency of salve, and anoint the wound with it; 11 a short time the wound or scald will be healed.

No. 50. To make Oil-Paste Shoe- Blacking,

No, 1.

TaT^e 8 pounds ivory-black.

1 gallon molasses, (the cheapest you can get.) 1 pint fish-oil. 2 pounds oil of vitriol. Mix the molasses, ivory-black, and the fish-oil thoroughly, and then pour on the oil of vitriol in small quantities at a time, and keep stirring until the boiling is over; then put it in boxes while it is warm. N.B. — The oil of vitriol .will cause the boiling. You will have to use a stone or earthen pot.

No. 51. A Cure for the Dropsy,

Take a stone jug and put in 1 gallon good cider, 2 handfuls parsley, with the root cut fine, 1 handful grated horseradish, 2 tablespoonfuls bruised mustard- seed, J ounce squill, 1 ounce juniper-berries. Mix all together, and let it remain 24 hours near the firo, shaking it often; then strain it. Dose, — J gill 3