1 a.m.
of wrack to half a pint of water -RRB- , and then let to cool . When quite cold , a dessert-spoon of it should be taken by the sufferer every four hours -- and at the end of two days the disease will have completely disappeared . The wrack is to be found at the twenty fathom level , six miles west-south-west of the Scilly Isles . `` In Bright 's disease , the mumia of the afflicted should be planted at 1 a.m. , with a cutting of sassafras , after the latter has been slept on , for one whole night , by the sufferer . As soon as the sassafras begins to rot , the patient will be cured . `` In dropsy , place a hare , that has been strangled , over the diseased portion of the body , and let it remain there for one hour . Then bury the hare , together with the mumia of the sick person , and as soon as the hare begins to decay , the patient will recover .