HOW TO CURE CANCER.—­Boil down the inner bark of red and white oak to the consistency of molasses; apply as a plaster, shifting it once a week; or, burn red-oak bark to ashes; sprinkle it on the sore till it is eaten out; then apply a plaster of tar; or, take garget berries and leaves of stramonium; simmer them together in equal parts of neatsfoot oil and the tops of hemlock; mix well together, and apply it to the parts affected; at the same time make a tea of winter-green (root and branch); put a handful into two quarts of water; add two ounces of sulphur and drink of this tea freely during the day.

CASTOR OIL MIXTURE.—­Castor oil, one dessert spoonful; magnesia, one dessert spoonful.  Rub together into a paste.  By this combination, the taste of the oil is almost entirely concealed, and children take it without opposition.  HOW TO DISGUISE CASTOR OIL.—­Rub up two drops oil of cinnamon with an ounce of glycerine and add an ounce of castor oil.  Children will take it as a luxury and ask for more.

CASTOR OIL EMULSIONS.—­Take castor oil and syrup, each one ounce; the yolk of an egg, and orange flower water, one-half ounce.  Mix.  This makes a very pleasant emulsion, which is readily taken by adults as well as children.  HOW TO CURE CATARRH.—­Take the bark of sassafras root, dry and pound it, use it as a snuff, taking two or three pinches a day.

HOW TO CURE CHILBLAINS.—­Wash the parts in strong alum water, apply as hot as can be borne.

HOW TO CURE COLD.—­Take three cents’ worth of liquorice, three of rock candy, three of gum arabic, and put them into a quart of water; simmer them till thoroughly dissolved, then add three cents’ worth paregoric, and a like quantity of antimonial wine.

HOW TO CURE CORNS.—­Boil tobacco down to an extract, then mix with it a quantity of white pine pitch, and apply it to the corn; renew it once a week until the corn disappears.

GOOD COUGH MIXTURE.—­Two ounces ammonia mixture; five ounces camphor mixture; one drachm tincture of digitalis (foxglove); one-half ounce each of sweet spirits of nitre and syrup of poppies; two drachms solution of sulphate of morphia.  A tablespoonful of this mixture is to be taken four times a day.

2.  Tincture of blood-root, one ounce; sulphate of morphia, one and a half grains; tincture of digitalis, one-half ounce; wine of antimony, one-half ounce; oil of wintergreen, ten drops.  Mix.  Dose from twenty to forty drops twice or three times a day.  Excellent for a hard, dry cough.

3.  Common sweet cider, boiled down to one-half, makes a most, excellent syrup for colds or coughs for children, is pleasant to the taste, and will keep for a year in a cool cellar.  In recovering from

an illness, the system has a craving for some pleasant drink.  This is found in cider which is placed on the fire as soon as made, and allowed to come to a boil, then cooled, put in casks, and kept in a cool cellar.