Piles
Make an ointment of equal parts of sage, parsley, burdock, and chamomile leaves, simmer half an hour in fresh butter or sweet oil and lard; then rub the parts affected with it, and drink half a gill of tar water twice a day; if the piles are inward, take the same quantity of tar water, and half a small glass of the essence of fir each night, on going to bed. Continue this course two months, and it will do you more good than all the quack medicines in existence.