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Preventive of Bilious Fever
If you are bilious in the spring, it will be well to physic with a sirup made of four ounces of rhubarb, four ounces of blood root, four ounces of mandrake root, ground or pounded fine, and stirred in half a pint of molasses, of which two tablespoonfuls is a dose. Then make a beer of equal parts of elder roots, burdock roots, sarsaparilla and spikenard roots, and white-ash bark and hops, and four times their weight of spruce boughs; add sufficient water, and place over a fire until sufficient mixture and extraction of the strength of the ingredients has taken place, then add yeast and put into a keg. After it is fit for use, THE INDIAN DOCTOR. drink three glasses a day, and we apprehend you will never have occasion to call a doctor in a bilious complaint.