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salt and water for two days, and then cleaned and 

 washed, a quarter of a pound of barley, three penny- 

 worth of eryn go-root ; boil all the above together, till 

 they become a jelly, and let them be strained off. 

 Half a pint night and morning for a grown person, 

 and quarter of a pint for a child. It must be taken 

 warm, and a little milk and sugar added after it is 

 warmed. It is an excellent remedy for consumption 

 and weakness." 



" To make Snail Broth. — Take five snailhorn snails, 

 clean them well with salt and water. Bruise them in 

 a marble mortar, put them into a basin of weak 

 mutton, or veal, or chicken broth; when boiled about 

 five minutes, strain them off into your basin. When 

 repeated, take ten, fifteen, or any number of snails to 

 twenty, as the person's stomach can bear with."* 



A modern authority, Francatelli, gives the following 

 recipe in his ' Cook's Guide ' : — 



" Mucilaginous Broth. — Put a cut-up chicken, a 

 pound of veal cutlet, and a calf's foot into a stew-pan, 

 with three pints of water, boil and skim ; then add a 

 dozen crayfish and a pint of garden snails, both bruised 

 and raw, in a mortar ; add also a handful of balm, 

 burrage, and chervil, three ounces of prepared Iceland 

 moss, and a small quantity of salt. The broth must 

 boil very gently by the side of the fire for about two 

 hours, without much reduction, and when done is to 

 be strained into a basin for use." 



Note. — This is a powerful demulcent, and is much in 

 use in France, in cases of phthisis, catarrh, bronchitis, 

 etc., etc. 



Oil of Black Snails — Spanish Cure for Consumption. 



* Old MS. B. 



