1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 70.

Another Cure for Cancer,

No. 2.

Take alum, vinegar, and honey, equal quantities, and wheat flour, and make a plaster by mixing it all together ; renew every twelve hours.

No. 71. Another for Cancer.

No. 3. Take pulverized alum and fish-worms smashed, and a salve made like a plaster and put on the sore.

No. 72. To polish Brass.

Take 6 cents' worth sour salts, and pumice-stone pulverized, soft water, and olive-oil, mix all together, and strain the liquor.

No. 73. To cure Rheumatism. No. 3. Take 1 quart spirits of wine. 2 ounces camphor.

2 ounces cloves. 3 handfuls salt. 6 heads red pepper. Infuse for 3 or 4 days in the sun or warm stove, and bathe with it.