PREVENTIVES FROM ILLNESS. 469 



First, If you or your dog should, at any time, get a severe blow, 

 let the wounded part be instantly fomented with water, as hot as 

 can be borne, for at least half an hour ; and you will thereby reduce 

 your suffering, or impediment from sport, to at least half its 

 duration. 



Secondly, If you burn yourself in shooting, or otherwise, wrap the 

 part affected immediately in cotton, the application of which, it has 

 been proved, acts like magic with a burn. 



This I was told as a recipe that had been adopted in 

 Paris ; and found it to answer extremely well. But, 

 on proposing it for insertion here, to an old friend, one 

 of our greatest surgeons that ever lived, he assured me 

 that a better recipe was the 



constant application of vinegar. 



Thirdly, If you should take cold, bathe your feet in hot water ; 

 if a little salt or bran is, or both are, added, so much the better. 

 Get into a bed warmed, with a little brown sugar sprinkled on the 

 coals j and take some whey, or whatever you can get, to promote 

 perspiration. 



This remedy, simple as it is, will often prevent your 

 having recourse to James's powder, &c. and may some- 

 times, perhaps, save you the expense of twenty pounds 

 for medical attendance. 



Fourthly, Never fast too long ; and avoid, whenever you can, 

 fagging too hard, 



or, when you come to a middle age, you will most 

 likely begin to feel it ; and perhaps insomuch as to be- 

 come nervous, and lose your good shooting. Remember 

 this advice, and see who will last the longest ; you who 

 do, or those who do not, follow it. 



Fifthly, Never go out with quite an empty stomach to wait for 

 wildfowl ; particularly in the morning. Should you wish to start 



