3732. For Nausea.—Three drops of hartshorn in a wine-glass of water.


3733. For Sick Headache.—One teaspoonful of pulverized charcoal and one-third of a teaspoonful of soda mixed in very warm water.


3734. Decoction of Sarsaparilla.—Take four ounces of the root, slice it down, put the slices into four pints of water, and simmer for four hours. Take out the sarsaparilla, and beat it into a mash; put it into the liquor again, and boil down to two pints, then strain and cool the liquor. Dose—a wine-glassful three times a day.


3735. Use—to purify the blood after a course of mercury; or indeed whenever any taint is given to the constitution, vitiating the blood, and producing eruptive affections.


3736. Cough Syrup.—Steep for twelve hours or more a teacupful of wild-cherry bark in a quart of water. Add sugar enough to make it quite sweet and let it boil to a syrup.