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when these are apprehended, take two tea-spoonsful a day, before breakfast and
dinner.
Wine Bitters for Debility.
Take two ounces of chamomile flowers, two of centaury flowers, one of iron
filings, and an ounce and a half of Jesuit's bark; put these in two quarts of
good wine, and set it in the sun three days, shaking it frequently. Half a
wine-glass of this taken twice a day, with water, is useful in cases of
debility, where there is no fever.
Chamomile, and wormwood teas, are both excellent tonics, as is also wild cherry
tree bark, made in strong tea, and taken cold.
Spice Wood Berries.
Boil in a pint of new milk, a table-spoonful of bruised spice wood berries. This
has a very healing effect in cases of dysentery, and summer disease in children.
Spiced Rhubarb.
Take two ounces of rhubarb, half an ounce of cloves, the same of cinnamon, and
quarter of an ounce of mace; stew them in a pint and a half of water till one
half is evaporated; then strain it and add half a pint of good spirits. Two
tea-spoonsful is a dose for a child a year old, with the summer disease, and two
table-spoonsful for a grown person.
For Chapped Lips.
Put a tea-cupful of rich cream over some coals to stew with three
table-spoonsful of powdered loaf-sugar. This has a healing effect.
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