Arts And Remedies. Mortification
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"Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend", by John George Hoffman, [1820],
A Well-tried Plaster To Remove Mortification
Take six hen's eggs and boil them in hot ashes until they are right hard; then take the yellow of the eggs and fry them in a gill of lard until they are quite black; then put a handful of rue with it, and afterward filter it through a cloth. When this is done add a gill of sweet
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oil to it. It will take most effect where the plaster for a female is prepared by a male, and the plaster for a male prepared by a female.
"Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend", by John George Hoffman, [1820],
A Well-tried Plaster To Remove Mortification
Take six hen's eggs and boil them in hot ashes until they are right hard; then take the yellow of the eggs and fry them in a gill of lard until they are quite black; then put a handful of rue with it, and afterward filter it through a cloth. When this is done add a gill of sweet
p. 33
oil to it. It will take most effect where the plaster for a female is prepared by a male, and the plaster for a male prepared by a female.
