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that are played by quacks and inferior venders. In 

 places where you can do as you please, let no silly 

 fashion dissuade you from drinking your wine out of a 

 narrow-bottomed glass (somewhat longer, and more like 

 a funnel than what is now made), as a glass of this form 

 retains so well the bouquet of the fruit. Fashion is all 

 very well ; but reason has a prior claim to it. I make 

 no apology for a digression to this subject (except my 

 inability to do it justice), because what is here intro- 

 duced relates to that which, more or less, concerns us 

 all.] 



A FEW CALOMEL PILLS, 



and the ingredients for an aperient draught on the following 

 morning ; 



in case a severe attack of bile, or any such illness, 

 should require something beyond a mere alterative. 



Calomel, although a medicine to be used with caution, I have 

 always found to be the most effectual recipe to cure an obstinate 

 stomach-ache, in case it cannot be removed by a cordial, hot water, 

 essence of peppermint, or tincture of rhubarb. Calomel, however, 

 being a strong mercurial preparation, would deprive you of a day's 

 sport, by the indispensably necessary confinement after taking it. 



I have lately been favoured with a recipe which is 

 almost as effectual as calomel ; and with which a sports- 

 man need not be made prisoner. It is simply to take, 

 at night, a pill composed of 



Blue pill, 2 grains; 



Compound extract of colocynth, 4 grains ; 



Oil of carraways, 2 drops. 



One pill is generally sufficient ; but,, if not, the quantity may be 

 increased, or doubled, on the same proportions. If one large pill is 

 objected to, the above articles can of course be made up in two. 

 (On showing this prescription to a medical friend, he said that it 



