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TO CURE THE SWEENEY IN HORSES.
Take a piece of old bacon, and cut it into small pieces, put them in a pan and roast them well, put in a handful of fish-worms, a gill of oats and three spoonfuls of salt into it; roast the whole of this until it turns black, and then filter it through a cloth; after which you put a gill of soft soap, half a gill of rye whiskey, half a gill of vinegar, and half a pint of rain-water to it; mix it well, and smear it over the part affected with sweeny on the third, the sixth, and the ninth day of the new moon, and warm it with an oaken board.

HOW TO MAKE MOLASSES.
Take pumpkins, boil them, press the juice out of them, and boil the juice to a proper consistence. There is nothing else necessary. The author of this book, John George Hohman has tasted this molasses, thinking it was the genuine kind, until the people of the house told him what it was.

TO MAKE GOOD BEER.
Take a handful of hops, five or six gallons of water, about three tablespoonfuls of ginger, half a gallon of molasses; filter the water, hops and ginger into a tub containing the molasses.

CURE FOR THE EPILEPSY.
Take a turtle dove, cut its throat, and let the person afflicted with epilepsy, drink the blood.

ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE CATTLE RETURN HOME.
Feed your cattle out of a pot or kettle used in preparing your dinner, and they will always return to your stable.

A VERY GOOD REMEDY TO CURE SORES.
Boil the bulbs (roots) of the white lily in cream, and
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put it on the sore in the form of a plaster. Southernwort has the same effect.

A GOOD CURE FOR WOUNDS.
Take the bones of a calf, and burn them until they turn to powder, and then strew it into the wound. The powder prevents the flesh from putrefying, and is therefore of great importance in healing the wound.

TO MAKE AN OIL OUT OF PAPER, WHICH IS GOOD FOR SORE EYES.
A man from Germany informed me that to burn two sheets of white paper would produce about three drops of oil or water, which would heal all sores in or about the eye if rubbed with it. Any affection of the eyes can be cured in this way, as long as the apple of the eye is sound.

TO DESTROY CRAB-LICE.
Take capuchin powder, mix it with hog's lard, and smear yourself with it. Or boil cammock, and wash the place where the lice keep themselves.

TO PREVENT THE WORST KIND OF PAPER FROM BLOTTING.
Dissolve alum in water, and put it on the paper, and I, Hohman, would like to see who cannot write on it, when it is dried.

A VERY GOOD REMEDY FOR THE GRAVEL.
The author of this book, John George Hohman, applied this remedy, and soon felt relieved. I knew a man who could find no relief from the medicine of any doctor; he then used the following remedy, to wit: he ate every morning seven peach-stones before tasting anything else, which relieved him very much; but as he had the gravel very bad, he was obliged to use it constantly. I, Hohman, have used it for several weeks. I still feel a touch of it now and then, yet I had it so badly that I
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cried out aloud every time that I had to make water. I owe a thousand thanks to God and the person who told me of this remedy.

A GOOD REMEDY FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT KEEP THEIR WATER.
Burn a hog's bladder to powder, and take it inwardly.

TO REMOVE A WEN DURING THE CRESCENT MOON.
Look over the wen, directly towards the moon, and say "Whatever grows, does grow; and whatever diminishes, does diminish." This must be said three times in the same breath.

FOR DEAFNESS, ROARING OR BUZZING IN THE EAR, AND FOR TOOTHACHE.
A few drops of refined camphor-oil put upon cotton, and thus applied to the aching tooth, relieves very much. When put in the ear it strengthens the hearing and removes the roaring and whizzing in the same.

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A GOOD WAY TO CAUSE CHILDREN TO CUT THEIR TEETH WITHOUT PAIN.
Boil the brain of a rabbit and rub the gums of the children with it, and their teeth will grow without pain to them.

FOR DEAFNESS, ROARING OR BUZZING IN THE EAR, AND FOR TOOTHACHE.
A few drops of refined camphor-oil put upon cotton, and thus applied to the aching tooth, relieves very much. When put in the ear it strengthens the hearing and removes the roaring and whizzing in the same.

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A GOOD WAY TO CAUSE CHILDREN TO CUT THEIR TEETH WITHOUT PAIN.
Boil the brain of a rabbit and rub the gums of the children with it, and their teeth will grow without pain to them.

FOR VOMITING AND DIARRHŒA.
Take pulverized cloves and eat them together with bread soaked in red wine, and you will soon find relief. The cloves may be put upon the bread.

TO HEAL BURNS.
Pound or press the juice of male fern, and put it on the burnt spots and they will heal very fast. Better yet, however, if you smear the above juice upon a rag, and put it on like a plaster.

VERY GOOD CURE FOR WEAKNESS OF THE LIMBS, FOR THE PURIFICATION OF THE BLOOD, FOR THE INVIGORATION OF THE HEAD AND HEART, AND TO REMOVE GIDDINESS, ETC.
Take two drops of oil of cloves in a tablespoonful of white wine early in the morning, and before eating anything else. This is also good for the mother-pains and the colic. The oil of cloves which you buy in the drug stores will answer the purpose. These remedies are also applicable to cure the cold when it settles in the bowels, and to stop vomiting. A few drops of this oil poured upon cotton and applied to the aching teeth, relieves the pain.

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