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 sweeney 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 put it on the sore in
the form of a plaster. Southern-wort has the same effect.