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CUration of medicines, the following may be 

 substituted, and plentifully used. * 



Take best white wine vinegar balf a pint ; 

 Spring water a quarter of a pint ; 

 Best brandy a wine glass or balf a gill. Mix. 



A wound upon any of the external parts, 

 occasioned by an instrument or severe bite, 

 must be treated as directed under that head. 

 The above compositions are properly adapt- 

 ed to every purpose for which they are pre- 

 scribed ; nor can more powerful or efficacious 

 repellants or astringents be applied to those 

 parts, unless by the rude hands and ruder 

 heads of uncultivated adventurers and des- 

 perate practitioners. 



The former elaborate and destructive com- 

 position of corrosive powders, blended with 

 greasy substances, in the form of unguents, 

 as well as the poisonous lotions, are long 

 since exploded, as totally inadequate to the 

 purposes for which they were so learr,edly dis- 

 played ; even that infallible of all infallibles, 

 the great secret of Sir Hans Sloane, is at 

 length buried in oblivion, and has given place 

 to more modern improvements. In all cases 



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