Mortification

Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend, by John George Hoffman, [1820], at sacred-texts.com

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.