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Dropsy

Six quarts old hard cider, 1 pint mustard seed pounded, 1 double handful parsley roots, do. lignum vitae shavings, 1 do. horse radish roots, simmer over a slow fire 48 hours, take a teacupful three times a day. It operates powerfully by urine.

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