48 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
latter when not glandular, but identical in structure with the 
part at fault, so as in some remarkable manner to influence such 
part for good; as for example by giving animal heart-substance 
for failure of power in the human heart, or spinal marrow from 
the ox for weakness of the human spine. Cardin is the medicinal 
principle of the bullock’s heart, and is contained therein when 
this is sent to table as food, being found to increase the force, and 
fulness of the pulse subsequently to eating it. Dr. Hutchison 
speaks of the animal heart as an excellent, and economical food, 
to be highly commended for healthy persons, and of which a 
larger use than at present may be well made. It resembles 
ordinary meat very closely as far as chemical composition is 
concerned, (whilst plus the cardin,) but differs from it in being 
of a denser structure. Likewise with respect to the human brain 
when disordered in function, it is found that sheeps’ brains, by 
the *‘cerebrin” of their grey matter, when administered as 
food act beneficially. Again, the discovery recently made that 
a local application within the human nostrils of the said animal 
organ attached to the sheep’s kidney (supra-renal), when dried 
and powdered, will straightway relieve the distress of hay fever, 
is remarkable and to the point. This animal substance if 
blown into, and up the nose exercises a positive remedial effect 
on the severe nasal trouble. Whether or not the same animal 
organ if given as food would answer equally well, remains to be 
tried. Furthermore, proof positive has been obtained that if 
an animal serum, which can dissolve the red corpuscles of the 
human blood, is injected by small doses into the human body 
under the skin, it will positively increase the number of sound 
healthy red corpuscles possessed by the individual. Likewise 
other serums, or soups, prepared from healthy animals (as of 
the liver, kidney, or spermatic fluid) and employed in small 
quantities, will actually strengthen the specific tissue elements 
of this, or that same human organ, when weakened by illness, 
or disease. 
ANISETTE, OR ANISEED. 
Tuts is a cordial liqueur, prepared from the condimentary seeds of 
the herb Anise, which are commonly kept among the pantry stores 
of a well-ordered household. The said seeds (of the Pimpinella 
amisum) when distilled with water, yield a valuable fragrant 
syrupy oil, which separates when cold into two portions, a light 
