‘ge ie ‘Poultice Sor Sealds and Burns, 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
FW NHE frequentaccidents by fire which 
daily occur, induce me to offer 
the public, through the medium of your 
valuable Magazine, the following efgca- 
cious though simple recipe, which has 
Jong been used by the inhabitants of 
Jamaica, and which I have frequently 
tried, and have never known to fail 
giving immediate ease, and taking away 
the inflammation in both burns and 
sealds, 
** Take equal weight of coarse brown or 
moist sugar, and good-sized onions shred, 
and beat chem together in a mortar toa pulp, 
and lay on the part affected.” 
In violent cases it will be necessary to 
yenew the above poultice daily. 
North Shields, M. Watson. 
Jun. 25th, 1811. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
WN addition to the remarks I made 
sometime ago, relative to the de- 
fects of pronunciatien in cbildren, 1 hope 
that the following extracts will meet 
with the same attention. 
“‘ The faulty or defective pronunciation 
of some of.the letters,” says Dr. Watson 
in the publication of the Instruction of 
the Deaf and Dumb, “ may, in most 
cases, be corrected by due attention to 
the requisite positions of the organs con- 
cerned in the formation of articulations, 
unless where these organs are totally de- 
fective, or very iinperfectly formed; and 
even then, much may frequently be 
done towards removing the defect in 
pronounciag words, by duly considering 
what I beg leave to term, the mechanism 
of speech. For, by attention to this, 
3t will often be found that one part.of 
the machine (by being properly applied) 
will, in a gieat measure, supply the de, 
fect of another, Suppose, for the sake 
of example, that a person had lost, or 
had been born without, the uvula, such 
a person would turn all the guttural 
sounds into dental or nasal; that 1s, 
where c, k, g, &c. were to be sounded, 
he would sound ¢; d, or ng, for want of 
that stop which the uvula and back part 
of the palate form in guttural articu- 
lations. But teach him to elevate the 
middle part of the tongue to the roof of 
the month, instead of the tip of it, or 
the hack part of it, and he will thereby 
be enabled to pronounce guttural arti- 
culations nearly as perfectly as if he had . 
had no such defect. 
[April 1) 
“To youth, those who. mostly require 
such directions, it willalways be found, 
that a little shewing is worth a volume 
of written instructions. Yet I should © 
recommend to persons having any im- 
pediment of this sort, a close attention 
to the positions of the organs of speech, 
in the formation of the powers af the 
consonants.” on ( 
Mr, Smart says, in his, Gram, of Eng. 
Pron. ‘ It seldom happens, that the in« 
ability to utter any particular consonant 
arises from mal-conformation of the. or- 
gaps; it is generally the consequence of 
early inattention, or bad example, con= 
firmed into a habit, Nor is it.a matter 
of wonder that such defects should be 
almost as obstinate to be removed as 
those that proceed from natural causes ; 
for do not the other organs of the body 
find the utmost difficulty in performing 
even the most simple actions, to which 
they have been unaccustomed? Hence 
the organs of speech will always find 
the same difficulty; and so simple a cons 
sonant as th, which is effected merely by 
putting the tongue between the teeth and 
breathing, shall seldom. be correctly ute 
tered by one who is bred out of England, 
The force of example in a_person’s fay 
mily, or in others with whom he has 
early associated, will, in the same man, 
ner render dificult such consonants as 
h,r, ors. For the second we often hear 
substituted a sound something like 2; and 
for the last, one resembling tk, which 
produces what is called a lisp. Such 
defects may certainly be remedied when 
nothing material is wanting in the ore 
gans, by inquiring into the manner by — 
which the true articulation is accom- 
plished, and by persevering in every 
effort to render the organs flexible to. the 
purpose.” ‘This gentleman also adds in 
another place, that, “ The lisp may be 
remedied by. repeating a number of 
words beginning with s; and (says he) 
let him be admonished never to suffer 
himself to. droop under discouragement 
from a present inability to emit any | 
particular sound with exactness. . By 
continually reading over the sounds in 
which it occurs, and, endeavouring to 
catch it from the person. who hears .bim 
pronounce, it may be depended upon 
that the object will at length be gained,” 
For he asserts that, ‘¢ it is impossible to 
learn the sounds of the letters of any 
language but by imitation; and. lest it 
should .be thought too tedious, an em- 
ployment to read lists of unconnected 
words, the pupil must reflect that by no 
other 
