A VERY GOOD REMEDY FOR THE COLIC.
Take half a gill of good rye whiskey, and a pipe full of tobacco; put the
whiskey in a bottle, then smoke the tobacco and blow the smoke into the
bottle, shake it well and drink it. This has cured the author of this book and
many others. Or, take a white clay pipe which has turned blackish from
smoking, pound it to a fine powder, and take it. This will have the same
effect.
TO BANISH CONVULSIVE FEVERS.
Write the following letters on a piece of white paper, sew it on a piece of
linen or muslin, and hang it around the neck until the fever leaves you:
A b a x a C a t a b a x
A b a x a C a t a b a x
A b a x a C a t a b a
A b a x a C a t a b
A b a x a C a t a
A b a x a C a t
A b a x a C a
A b a x a C
A b a x a
A b a x
A b a
A bHOW TO BANISH THE FEVER.
Write the following words upon a paper and wrap it up in knot-grass,
(breiten Megrieb,) and then tie it upon the body of the person who has the
fever:
Potmat sineat,
Potmat sineat,
Potmat sineat.A VERY GOOD PLASTER.
I doubt very much whether any physician in the United States can make
a plaster equal to this. It heals the white swelling, and has cured the sore leg
of a woman who for eighteen years had used the prescriptions of doctors in