The House-Keeper's Guide and Indian Doctor

1851, and one small book promises ice creams, perfumery, soap, furniture polish, a complete system of doctoring — and model letters for every occasion.

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Inward Ulcers, No

2-Steep two ounces each of colt's foot root, sassafras root bark, and blood-root, and one ounce of the gum myrrh, in two quarts of brandy. Drink a wine-glass each morning before breakfast; and use constantly a beer made of one peck of barley malt, two pounds each of burdock roots and spikenard roots, one pound of cumfrey root, same of angelica root, five pounds of black spruce boughs, and four ounces of fennel seed, with ten gallons of water-drinking at least a quart a day, and using simple diet and moderate exercise.

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