f 20 ; 



But if copper vefTels are ftill continued, every 

 cook and good houfewife fhould be particularly 

 careful in keeping them clean and well tinned ; 

 and fhould fufFer. nothing to remain in them lon- 

 ger, than it is ablolutely neceflary for the purpofe 

 of cookery. 



\ 

 REMEDY* 



*^ The common cure, fays Dr. Mead, of all 

 poifons taken into the flomach, muft be by 

 throwing them up again, by vomiting, as loon as 

 pofTible, and defending the membranes from their 

 pungent acrimony. Drinking very large quan- 

 tities of warm milk, with oil of fweet alnlonds, 

 till the vomiting ceafes, will anfwer the firft in- 

 tcfition. The other, in mineral poifons, (for the 

 elfeds of vegetable poifons, after they have been 

 vomited up, generally go off by diluting plenti- 

 fully with foft and fat liquids) requires particular 

 < are, which may be in this way. The force of 

 i Mefe depends upon a combination of metallic 

 particles with faline cryflials : therefore the dif- 

 liaiting of thefe muil deflroy their power. This 



may 



