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Severe Cases of Dropsy

- Boil one pound each of prickly ash bark and sassafras root bark, half a pound of spicewood root bark, three ounces of garlic, four ounces each of parsley root, horse radish root, and black birch bark, in three gallons of malt beer, for half an hour. Strain off the liquor and put it into a close vessel, making use of it in doses of a gill three times a day for two weeks, taking good care not to catch cold or drink too much cold water, while undergoing the above treatment.