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cold water, and make it out in rolls about two inches long; wrap each roll up in
paper, and keep them in a box. After soaking and scraping the corn, bind it on,
spread on a soft rag. To warm a small piece of common adhesive plaster and apply
it, gives almost immediate relief.
Sassafras Poultice.
Take the bark of the root and mash, or pound it; boil it in a little water, and
take out the bark, and thicken it with crumbs of bread, and milk.
Balsam Apple in Spirits.
Cut a ripe balsam apple in small pieces, and fill a bottle with it; pour Holland
gin on it.
This retains its strength for years, and is useful to take a few drops at a time
for the colic; it is also valuable to apply with sugar to a cut or wound.
Cure for Biles.
Use equal quantities of resin soap, brown sugar, and powdered resin, worked well
together, with a few drops of molasses. A poultice of onions, sassafras, or
bread and milk may be used with advantage.
For musquito bites, apply spirits of hartshorn and camphor.
For Scurvy of the Gums.
Take a quarter of an ounce of bark, and a piece of new lime the size of a
hazle-nut; put them in a bottle with half a pint of water; wash the mouth with
this three times a day.
For an Infant's Sore Mouth.
Make a strong sage tea; put in a little bark and borax or alum, with honey to
sweeten it; cork it up in
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