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READY DOCTOR.

For Sickle Cuts.

IF the Sickle was rusty, apply a Drawing Salve for 2 Days: Then Tutiae ointment till whole. If the Sickle was clean, a Blade of good Tobacco is fully sufficient. Probatum est.

For Scalding by Riding.

RUB the Scalded places with an old Tallow Candle, or a piece of Clean Paper, well steeped in Old Orine : or, Elgili Juice anointed. Probatum est:

              A SALVE,

For Speedy Healing of Wounds.

Dock or Dockin Roots, Rue, Suthernwood, Woodbine Leaves, and Plantain, of each a handful, boiled altogether ; then take their Juice, add to that the Juice of a handful of Marigold, boiled by itself; then to this add 2 ozs. Mastic, 2 oz. unwrought Wax, 1 oz. Rosin, also unwrought, and 30 Drops from a Phial Glass of Turpentine Oil; boil all together in a Gally Pot upon a flow fire. This Compound will keep 20 years, by letting it stand in the Vessel you boil it last into. It will heal most of Cuts and. Sores, thereby people may depend upon it being genuine.

                                  Probatum Est.

N. B In cafe you don't know how to boil your Roots and Herbs: Let then Soak upon the fire till almost dry; then squeeze the Juice through a Linen Cloath, and do as above directed.

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