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Wound stone - Mrs Cumby.
A pound and a half of green vitriol, a pound of Alum, an ounce of Salamonia. Pound these ingredients to a fine powder and put them into a new glazed earthen pipkin, which will hold a quart or three pints. Put in on a moderate fire, which you must incread till the drugs boil up two or three times towards the top of the pipkins, stir them round all the time with a peice of stick - Then take them from the fire and set them to cool for six or seven hours Break the pipkin to get out the stone. Bread the stone into small peices and keep it for use in a wide mouthed stone bottle in a dry place.
Directions for the use of the would stone.
Pound a peice of the stone about the size of a walnut, and put it into a quart bottle of rain water - When melted shake the bottle well and pour out some of the liquor into a saucer. Soak some fine old linen four times doubled in it and lay it upon the bruize, cut, strain or sore - keeping it constantly wet - It is a wonderful braces of the skin and sinews. It will cure the scab in sheep - the flies will not come near the sore again, the maggots will soon die, and the skin will come again in a few days It should be used after firing a horse. For this valuable recipe Louis 15th gave ten thousand

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Wound stone - Mrs Cumby. A pound and a half of green vitriol, a pound of Alum, an ounce of Salamonia. Pound these ingredients to a fine powder and put them into a new glazed earthen pipkin, which will hold a quart or three pints. Put in on a moderate fire, which you must incread till the drugs boil up two or three times towards the top of the pipkins, stir them round all the time with a peice of stick - Then take them from the fire and set them to cool for six or seven hours Break the pipkin to get out the stone. Bread the stone into small peices and keep it for use in a wide mouthed stone bottle in a dry place. Directions for the use of the would stone. Pound a peice of the stone about the size of a walnut, and put it into a quart bottle of rain water - When melted shake the bottle well and pour out some of the liquor into a saucer. Soak some fine old linen four times doubled in it and lay it upon the bruize, cut, strain or sore - keeping it constantly wet - It is a wonderful braces of the skin and sinews. It will cure the scab in sheep - the flies will not come near the sore again, the maggots will soon die, and the skin will come again in a few days It should be used after firing a horse. For this valuable recipe Louis 15th gave ten thousand