Excerpt from Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes Including Valuable Gauging Tables: This Collection Contains More Than One Thousand Choice Recipes for All Kinds of Cooking, Baking, Making Preserves, Creams, Perfumeries, Inks, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Liniments, Dyes, Ciders, Cordials, Spirits of All Kinds, Blacking, Cements, Extracts, Se Take 1 ounce of red chicken-weed, (gathered and dried in the Shade during the month of J une, ) put it into 1 quart of strong (or brewers') beer, boil it down to 1 pint. Strain the tea through a clean linen cloth, then stir into the tea 1 ounce theriac SO that it will be well mixed. The theriac is not to be boiled. Dosa - For a man with a strong constitution, one half-pint taken in the morning, sober, and the next morning the other half-pint, also sober. The patient ought to fast three hours after he has taken the medicine; then he can eat bread and but ter, or bread and molasses, for at least aweek or ten days; he must not eat any pork, nor any fish or' water-fowls, and must not drink any water. He can drink any kind of tea, and he must not get angry or overheat himself for two weeks. For a person of a weak constitution, make 3 doses out Of the above-prepared quantity, and also for children in proportion. 3 doses will be sufficient for a cure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.