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No. 162 To Sweeten the Blood. Mr. Martin
1 oz Cream of Tartar 1oz Sulphur
1 oz Ethiops Mineral pounded fine & mixed in half a lb of treacle take a large teaspoonful
an hour after breakfast or fasting & the same quantity going to rest. If this should act too much take it only once in 24 hours.
No.163 Rich Gingerbread.
2 1/2lbs well dried flour 1/4 oz of Cloves & nutmeg together 1.2 oz carraway seeds 1/2 oz Corrainder seeds 1/2 oz beaten Ginger sifted. Then take 1 lb Butter & 2 oz of Treacle with 1/4 pint Brandy set it on the fire till the butter is melted then mixed it with the flour & other ingredients add 1/4 lb sweetmeal cut small. Bake them in [tri?] shapes in a moderate oven.
No.164 Scurvy in the Teeth.
Heat a piece of steel red hot & quench it in vinegar as fast as you can heat it. Then add to the quantity of 1/2 pint 1/4 oz of Myrrh in powder & a dram or two of mastick in powder. wash your teeth with this 3 or 4 times a day.
No. 165 Camomile Tea. Instead of
1 oz Camomile Flowers put to a pint of water, stand 4 hours, pour it off into afresh bottle, put to it a tablespoonfull of Brandy & take a spoonfull.
No. 166 My Fathers Liniment in English
Opodeldoc 4 oz Spirit of Salammoniac 1 1/2 ozs Liquid Laudanhaum 1/2 oz
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