Common Canker
- Take a pound of canker root, wash it well and pound it fine. Soak it in warm water three hours, stirring it up well occasionally, so as to extract its strength. Wash the canker with it, and drink of it three times a day for a week.
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- Take a pound of canker root, wash it well and pound it fine. Soak it in warm water three hours, stirring it up well occasionally, so as to extract its strength. Wash the canker with it, and drink of it three times a day for a week.