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Dick's Cure for Dyspepsia
fennel seed, ounce; catnip flowers, 1 ounce; Mix together 1/2 ounce bicarbonate of soda; 2 mother-wort, 1 ounce; pleurisy root, 2 ountogether ounce bicarbonate of soda; 2 mother-wort , 1 ounce; pleurisy root, 2 oundrachms aromatic spirits of ammonia; 6 ces. Infuse in a pint of spirits of wine for 3 drachms compound tincture of gentian; 6 or 4 days, often shaking, keeping it in a warm drachms tincture of henbane; 2 drachms tinc- place; then add a pint of water and a tableture of ginger; 3 drops creosote; 1 ounce spoonful of tincture of cayenne. Excellent ginger syrup, and 3 ounces water. A tablein flatulency, colic, nervous affections, prospoonful taken after each meal will cause a moting perspiration and refreshing sleep. speedy cure.