1 1 6 On the Use of Steamed Potatoes 



I was convinced it was to be a real fit. I then got a pail 

 with two handles, and from the handles 1 suspended a 

 towel to rest mv heel upon ; I then tilled the pail with boil- 

 ing water, so full as not to touch my heel, and covered it 

 over with several folds of flannel for about half an hour, as 

 in the first experiment ; I dried my foot, and wrapped it up 

 in flannel : I was perfectly free from pain, and walked about 

 the room as usual. I repeated this inuuersion five or six 

 times this day and the following, since when I have had no 

 complaint in mv foot ; but, as I had only immersed my 

 hand once in steam, in two days the pain returned, as it 

 the obstruction had not been perfectly removed. I had 

 recourse to the steam again, which I repeated two or three 

 times. I have waited thus long to give a fair trial to its 

 riTeets, I am still alive, and have been in good health ever 

 since, though at the border of seventy. 



-May I not fairly say that here are two experiments, 

 and, what is more, at difterent stages of the paroxysms, 

 which have been successful in removing the immediate 

 cause, v.'hich I consixler to be obstruction only, by the re- 

 laxing qualitv of the steam, or, what is the same thing, 

 diminishing the pressure of the conmion atmosphere? Fi- 

 Tiall,', I shall continue the ginger daily, and repeat the va- 

 pour-bath when necessary; and if either stomacli or bowels, 

 or other viscera, shall be attacked, I shall immerse my 

 uhole body in a hogshead of steam. To prevent the frc- 

 queixt return of the paroxysms I live abstemiously, being 

 certain that, in uiv case, the habit or body between reple- 

 tion and inanition will conduce thereto; and such a state 

 wdl be the mCst likely to prevent or mitiirate diseases of 

 Any kind. If what has been said and done sliall be thought 

 erroneous, I :-hall kiss the rod of conviction. 



A. SXEXHOUSK, M.D. 



XVII. Oit the Use of Steamed Potatoes as a Sulstitidc for 

 Hay to Cattle *. 



X HE silver medal of the Society for the J'ncouragemcnt 

 of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, was this session 

 voted to .lohn Christian Curwen, esq. M.P., of Working- 

 ton Mall, in Cumberland, fen- his extensive experiments on 

 feeding cattle with steamed potatoes ; from whom the fol- 



" From Trnniariions of the So iriy for the Encourageinmt of Avis, Ma- 

 fliftic-tuya, and (lomvurtCi vol. xxi. 



lowing; 



