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On the use of Sulphur in Rheumatisms. 169 
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1. To make a Lacker for Brass.—Take eight ounces of 
spirits of wine, and one ounce of arnotto, well bruised— 
mix this in a bottle by itself. Then take one ounce of 
gamboge, and mix it in like manner with the same quantity 
4. Recipes furnished by Mr. Eli W. Blake. 
of spirits—and bruised saffron steeped in spirits to nearly 
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the same proportion. 
Take seed-lac varnish what quantity you please, and 
brighten it to your mind by the above mixtures. If it be too 
yellow, add a little more from the arnotto bottle; if it be 
too red, add a little more from the gamboge or saffron bot- 
tle ; if too strong, add spirits of wine. 
2. To make Seed-lac Varnish.—Take spirits of wine, one 
quart; put it in a wide-mouthed bottle, and add thereto 
eight ounces of seed-lac, which is large-grained, bright, and 
clear, free from sticks and dirt; let it stand two days or 
longer in a warm place, often shaking it. Strain it through 
flannel into another bottle, and it is fit for use. 
5, Extract of a letter to the Editor, from Beaufort, South 
Carolina. 
1. Remarks on the use of Sulphur in Rheumatism.— 
In a letter written by Professor Olmsted, and addressed 
to the Editor of this Journal, (Vol. VIII. No. 2,) mention 
is made of a man who was severely afflicted with swellings 
of the joints, &c. brought on, it was supposed, by his niten 
taken large doses of sulphur,—to which remedy he ha 
been advised to resort by a quack in order to cure a rheu- 
atic affection under which he laboured. Is it not most 
likely, that the disease in question was caused by rheuma- 
tism, and that the swellings of the joints, &c., would have 
taken place, although the sulphur had never been adminis- 
tered? 1am the more inclined to this opinion from the well 
known tendency which rheumatism has to terminate in this 
Von. IX.—No. 1. 22 
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