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, Pills for.

TAKE Castile soap one drachm and a half; rhubarb, in powder, forty grains; oil of juniper twenty drops; sirup of ginger a sufficient quantity to form the whole into twenty pills. The dose is two or three of these pills to be taken occasionally.

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DISSOLVE one pound and three quarters of powdered double refined sugar in a pint of water, by means of what is called the water bath, or balneum mariæ; that is, by setting the vessel which contains it in a saucepan, kettle, or copper of water, over the fire, till the sugar be thoroughly dissolved, and the sirup properly formed. This, besides other advantages, prevents the danger of the sugar's boiling over, which is much to be apprehended in the common mode of boiling sirup in large quantities. After it has stood a few hours, take off the scum, and pour the sirup into a stoae jar or bottle for use.

, for Coughs, &c.

THIS excellent remedy cannot be made too public.—It is thus prepared. Take six ounces of cumfrey root, and twelve handsfull of plantain leaves; cut and beat them well; strain out the juice; and, with an equal weight of sugar, boil it to a sirup.

, for the Scurvy and Scorbutic Eruptions.

TO four beer quarts of good rich sweet wort, add half a pound of sassafras, an ounce of sarsaparilla, and