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flavouring essences, or fruits are added. Such ices should not 
be eaten with other food, because they tend to retard digestion, 
neither immediately after a person has taken violent exercise, 
or when very hot. Such, for instance, as 
** Glacies, 
Lac miro quodum sapore imbutum, 
Nix ceresina, dentes tentatura.”” 
Oxford Menu. 
Much of the dyspepsia to which many American citizens are 
subject is mainly attributable to their custom of taking iced 
water with hot bread, or biscuit, likewise iced cakes in abundance. 
The first sweet Ices in Paris were placed before the subjects of 
Louis XIV by a coffee-house keeper in the Rue de P Ancienne 
Comédie. 
The remedial uses of ice medicinally need scarcely be re- 
capitulated, as they are so well known; whether to help arrest 
internal bleeding by sucking small pieces of the Ice, or to relieve 
persistent vomiting, or to allay feverishness, and quench thirst 
rather than by copious drinking. Also the external applications 
of Ice for subduing local congestions, for cooling inflamed parts, 
and for neutralizing pain by a judicious employment thereof, 
are familiar to all whose office it is to care for sick persons. 
Likewise snow has been long made available for cooling drinks, 
even from the days of Hippocrates, and Seneca. Custard ices are 
valuable as being easy to digest, and containing light nourishment, 
whilst cooling the tongue, stomach, and body in general. The 
Germans call white of egg when irothed “ Snow.” In winter 
time, when actual pure snow covers the ground, some of this 
may be advantageously employed for making pancakes instead 
of using eggs for the purpose. Take four dessertspoonfuls of 
flour, and two of snow, mix well together, then add cold water 
enough to make it into a very stiff batter. Fry quickly in boiling 
friture, and serve hot, with spiced sugar and lemon juice. 
Recently a Swiss physician has been treating certain nervous 
disorders successfully by administering in a systematic way tea 
made with melted Snow. Near Munich, at Worishofen, there is 
now an establishment where patients of inactive blood-circulaton, 
and of languid functions, are managed with considerable success — 
by the “Snow cure.” At regular times they are set to walk 
about, barefooted, in the snow, and to rub themselves vigorously 
