Miscellaneous Correspondence. Qg5 



Mr. Tilloch. 



On Tuesday the 1 4th instant (August) , about tea at 

 night, the atmosphere being rather cloudy, a most brilliant 

 stream of light suddenly appeared at Petworth in Sussex^ 

 extending from the N. E. towards the South Downs. It 

 lasted about a minute and a half, and then gradually dis- 

 appeared, beginning from the.N;' E. Probably some of 

 your correspondents may have also observed this curious 

 meteor. 1 never witnessed any so singularly beautiful. 



Yours, &c: J. S; S. 



Mr. tilloch. 



Your excellent publication possesses, in my opinion, art. 

 additional value, from the extracts you have lately inserted 

 from curious and scarce books, which now are not gene- 

 rally known. With this idea I send ycu the following 

 excellent recipe for the speedy recovering of the use of the 

 foot or hand that has been violently sprained : which ap- 

 peared in the Annual Register for 1760, signed Theoph. 

 Lobb, Bagnio-court, Newgate-street. 



" 1. Let it be fomented with vinegar, a little warm, for 

 four or five minutes at a time, once every four hours : this 

 will render the circulation of the fluids in the parts affected 

 more easy ; and either prevent a swelling, or promote its 

 subsiding. 



" 2. Let the person stand three or four minutes at a 

 time on both his feet, in their natural posture, and some- 

 times move the strained foot : and sometimes, when sit- 

 ting with his foot on a low stool, let him move it this way 

 and that, as he can bear it. This will contribute much to 

 contract the over-stretched vessels, and to .recover a due 

 circulation of their fluids through them. 



" 3. Let a gentle dry friction with a warm hand be 

 sometimes used to the parts affected, which will conduce 

 much to the same ends. 



" 4. Two hours after every application of the vinegar, 

 let the part affected be just wetted with the rectified spirits 

 of wine, and then gently rubbed. 



" By these means persons to whom I have advised them 

 have recovered from the effects of very violent sprains in 

 a few days, as some others have been weeks in recovering 

 by different ways of management ; such as a continual 

 resting of the strained foot, and disuse of 'its motions." 



F. M. 

 X2 Mr. 



