MISCELLANEA. 6oj 



, Healing. Beat up whites of eggs and flour 

 with a little brandy ; fpread on brov/n paper. 

 For flight treads, &c. Tobacco Ointment. 

 Leaf tobacco, half a pound; boil in a quart 

 Red Port to a pint (or elder wine and diftilled 

 vinegar, equal parts) fl.rain, and add half a 

 pound tobacco in fine powder ; lard or oil, one 

 pound ; rofin and bees-wax, four ounces each ; 

 roots of round birthwort powdered, two ounces. 

 Drying, detergent, and appeafes pain. 



Styptics against bleeding. PufF-balls 

 dried and powdered. Spunge moderately 

 dried by the fire, fo'as not to deftroy its fpring, 

 and kept dry. Or. Roch allum and blue 

 vitriol, three ounces each ; fpring water, one 

 quart, boil till diflblved, filter, and add oil of 

 vitriol, half an ounce. Apply with doflils of 

 hnt. Coldbatch's ftyptic may be had of the 

 druggifls. 



Gelding is fafe at any age in a healthy 

 fubjett. Having opened the fcrotum, tie the 

 cords with a ftrong waxed thread, and then 

 cut off the teflicle. Proceed as in other wounds. 

 The old mode was with the cautery, and no 

 ligature ; very unfafe. Moderate exercife. Se- 

 veral bottle. conjurors have gone about at diffe- 

 reilt periods, pretending to make a fecret of 

 gelding horfes, and working them in a few 

 days ; and, lament abUe diclu, the fecret has 

 died with one of them, notwithfl:anding a cer- 

 tain. 



