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Comments: His Comments: Mine

Monday, April 25, 1892

Receipt Book

Lineament

two ounce of argomum four eggs and a quart of vinegar.

A remedy for poison

a poultice of crushed bean leaves

Another remedy for poison

take shoemack leaves and boil them and put in the tea.

A remedy for toothache and rheumatism take queen of the

meadow and make tea of the root and drink it for tooth ache

chew the root

To keep inflammation out of a cut - take red Elm bark and

pound it up fine and wet it a little then put it on the cut

A receipt for sore eyes

Take sulfur of line (white vitriol) a small teaspoonful put it

about 1/2 gill of fresh sweet milk in a saucer or some earthen

dish. Set it in warm embers a few minutes until it clobbers.

then drip the whey through a thin cloth into a cup or some

earthen dish. Bottle the whey & add as much soft water to it

as there is whey in the bottle. Throw the cloth holding the

clobber into the fire and put ashes in to the cup saucer

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