Vol. X.— No. 23. 



AND HOIITICULTURAL JOURNAT.. 



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horse's stDiiiiich can Uciir niiyiliiiii; timt will in- 

 jure buts .' Somo even think iliMt nulteil wax cm 

 be pomod ilowii llie throat of a liorse, and hohl 

 buts fust wliL'ii it cools ; can any person think a 

 hors.;'s bowelscoiiltl hear wax melting hot with- 

 out killing; the iiorse, or that it would not cool he- 

 fore itrearhed the hols? The (act is, sial)led Innses 

 at particnlir seasons, discharge hots without tak- 

 ing anything. I iiuve several limes Ibund tliem 

 in the slahle vvliun nothing had been given, ami 

 at those seasons when medicine is given, hots are 

 found, if examination is made, and they will he 

 found if examination is made when no medicine 

 is given. Any person that will try experiment-*, 

 often rcpe.ited, will come lo the conclusion that 

 we know of nothing that can he given to a horse 

 that will d >stroy or even ilistiirb the hots. If I 

 could depend upon anything from the experi- 

 Jneiils I have tried on living hots out of the horse, 

 it would he to stupify tliem with lauilanum, and 

 then give hrisk cathartics. 



But now to come to the treatment : a horse is 

 taken with ;\ violent cholic, rolling on the ground 

 liitiiig his side, sonietinies much swollen, and oth- 

 er limes little or none ; apparently in great pain. 

 It is pronunie.l a case of hots, and while we are 

 preparing chicken howels lo cram down his throat, 

 solutions of copperas, &c, &c, to destroy the 

 hots, the animal dies with cholic ; an hour or so 

 tiftcrwards he is opened and his bowels found 

 perforated hy hots ; we are satisfied he died from 

 bots, without reflecting that these same hots were 

 in him yesterday ; that some cause more than mere 

 whim ill them must have caused them all to 

 ■change ihcir a|ipetite so suddenly ; that if they 

 really <lid cause the death of ihe horse there 

 would he Jio preventive, as experiment would 

 prove that nothing as yet known would dislurh 

 them before ihey would have time to kill the horse ; 

 and whether they might not have commenced 

 perforating the bowels after the liorse died. One 

 experimrnt hy opening a h<jrse before he was fully 

 dead would convince all that bots were not the 

 ■cause of death. The proper way to treat the 

 horse would he to give an ounce of laudanum as 

 soon as he is taken ; then bleed until he foils ; 

 while down give two quarts of castor oil and rub 

 his flanks hard and continually ; if he is not swollen 

 lie will he almost certain to recover ; but if he 

 swells very much and becomes unaMe to rise, as 

 •a last resnit fearlessly plunge a long bladeil knife 

 into his flank just where there is a curl in the hair; 

 iimch air will escape at the wound, ami in most 

 instances the horse will be better immediately. 

 It is probable, if this oi.eration %verc performeil 

 snfliciently soon and boldly, it would seldom fail. 



R. R. Il.AUDK.N. 



USE OF THE TOJI.ATO 



IN liUICKENlNG THE ACTION OF THE ABDOMl.NAL 

 VISCERA. 



Mr Fleet — Like uiost persons of studious or 

 sedentary hahiis,^ I often find myself more or less 

 inc.omnio.leil, and my health impaired, by inaction, 

 of the stomicli and bowels, so as to be under the 

 necessity of resorting to medicine, principally 

 cathartics. In or<ler to enable your readers per- 

 fectly to appreiu.ite what I am about to say of a 

 remedy, this state of the bowels is always in some 

 degree accompanied with a sense of straitness of 

 the chest, and besides a general uneasiness, and 



iissitiide, yet with the head ache, or some degree 

 of pain in the region of the liver. It .seems to 

 Mie a recurriiice of those symptoms that accom- 

 pany attiicks of what is called, by my physicians, 

 a liver complaint, to which I have been a good 

 deal suliject. The a|ipetile, instead of being keen 

 becomes imperfect, with a pecular taste of the 

 mouth, as if soineihing was wanting, and in the 

 functions of digestion, to constitute perfect health, 

 for which cathartics arc only a temiiorary relief 

 not a remedy. 



The common Tomato, used in making gravy, 

 at once removes this taste of the mouth ; in a 

 little lime ipiickens the action of the liver, and of 

 ihe bowels, aiid removes all the above noticed 

 symptoms and feelings. I regard it as an inval- 

 Uidile artiide of diet, or, if yon please, as of medi- 

 cine, or of medical dietetic.-i. With me, it has 

 always been an object of solicituile, to find out 

 such diet, as should supersede the necessity of 

 medicine. Except in pickle, which I cannot use, 

 I cat the Tomato in every imaginable mode of 

 dressing, and find it perfectly adapted to my 

 wants. In the hope of being some use to others, 

 these facts are stated. The Tomato is of great 

 use to me. It is raiseil with less trouble than any 

 other vegetable that I have any knowledge. It 

 was first planted six years ago, drops its own 

 .■ieed into the groun<l, and has produced bushels, 

 every year since, with no other trouble than once 

 digging the same grounil, in spring, and one or 

 two hoeings, on a spot of perhaps six feet square. 

 It makes a good pickle, .■ind is raised with one 

 hundredth part the care, labor, and trouble, of an 

 pcpial quantity of cucumbers. But, one other ob- 

 ject, remains to he stated. I incline to the opin- 

 ion, though without having yet fully tried it, that 

 the Tomato may be made into a rich sauce, for 

 meal, and be kept through the year, or from sea-, 

 son 10 season of the fruit.* The gravy, I know, 

 even in 'die hottest weather of summer, will keep, 

 perfectly unchanged, for several days, in a com- 

 mon open dish, in a pantry ; and this I know, be- 

 cause, as my cook does not like the article, I have 

 contrived to keep it over, when she neglects my 

 directions. If properly prepared, and bottled, 

 and well corked, it would certainly keep good, in 

 an ice house, or perhaps in a common cellar, or 

 under water, of a low and uniform temperature. 

 At any rale, if found to be as useful to others, 

 as it is to me, it will be quite desirable to find out 

 how it may be best [jreserved for use. As a pickle 

 kept m brine, or vinegar, I could not use it, and 

 I am inclined to think its good qualities would be 

 .^luch diminished, for any one, by this mode of 

 preservation. It seems to me, that, of all the ar- 

 ticles of diet, or medicine, that have come to my 

 knowledge, the Tomato acts most directly upon 

 the liver, and thus in the bile. Publish this if you 

 please, and let others try it, and make their own 

 ohservalions. I know that several peisons, of my 

 acquaintance, have derived alike benefits from the 

 use of it. 



Constitutionally predisposed to a torpor of the 

 liver, and the abdominal viscera, I have, through 

 life, been suliject to the necessity of using cathar- 

 tics, until hai iiig discovered the good effects of the 

 Tomato. In all cases, except in such as above 

 described, my flow of animal spirits have always 

 been uniform, rather abundant than otherwise 



susiaiiiing severe mental effort, even to 12 and 

 16 hours each 24, for weeks in succession, always 

 without other stimuli than ordinary fiod and 

 drink. Wine never exhilarates, except as it in- 

 creases my general health ; and anient spirits 

 always deprc-.scs the tone of my mind. Kow far 

 they may be regarded as peculiarities, I know not, 

 but think proper to state them, Cor the sake of u 

 clear understanding, and in a sincere iWsire to bo 

 useful to others. I have never known tlie cflect 

 even in the slightest degree, of any sort of int<ixi- 

 cating drinks. Ilealih exhilarates, and ailments 

 depress my spirits. When afHicted with inaction 

 ofiho bowels, head-ache, a bad taste of the 

 mouth, straitness of the chest, and a dull and 

 painful heaviness of the region of the liver, the 

 whole of these symptoms are removed by Toma- 

 to sauce, and the mind, in the course of some 

 tew hours, is put into perfi ci tone, like a new vi- 

 olin. The facts certainly' merit a narration, and I 

 can but hope they may be o( use no many persons. 

 The true plan of life for men of mind, an<l espe- 

 cially for men of study, and much mental effort, is, 

 so to live, as to have our food supply all that is 

 necessary of medicine, A wise man will soon 

 learn to relish what agrees with his temperament, 

 and reject all else, in food and drink. To which 

 I will only add, that much employment of the 

 mind, i)articularly in men of slow habits of the 

 body, slow actions of the bowels, calls for a larger 

 proportion, than they generally use, if temperate 

 men, of liquid food or drink. II. G. S. 



October -23, 1831. 



Domestics. — Export of Domestic Cotton Goods 

 from the United States, for 



1826, amounting to $1,138,125 



1827, .lo 1,159,414 



1828, do 1,010,232 



1829, do 1,259,457 



1830, do 1,343,183 



— besides the goods which have been consumed 

 in the Mexican trade, and those smuggled into 

 Canada. 



' Practice Laughs at Theory: — The New York 

 .Journal of Commerce says — three thousand bags 

 Brazil coffee were sold yeslenlay at 12 cents, 

 deliverable on the reduced duty of 1 ct. lb. 



That is — the duty will be only one cent per. lb., 

 but last year, when it was Jive cents, the average 

 price of coffee was only 11^ cents — so a reductiou 

 of the ' tax ' has increased the price. The duty 

 instead of being kept in the country, really goes 

 into the hands of the foreign grower who gradu- 

 ates his prices with reference to the duties, &c, here. 

 This is sound '/ree <ra(/e ' logic, though common 

 sense rejects it — as it does the whole doctrine. — 

 JViles' Register. 



A Curiosity. — A friend has placed in my hands 

 (says Niles' Register ) ' The Calcutta Gazette 

 and Daily Advertiser'' u( 21 \.h May, 1831 — which 

 among other widely sjiread advertisements, con- 

 tains the fnllowing. 



' Mazkenzie Lyall & Co. will sell by public 

 auction at the Exchange Commercial sale rooms, 

 this day, Friday, 27th May, 1831, ten hales fine 

 American sheetings, bleached and unhleiiched, as 

 fully detailed in the catalogues now in circulation.' 



* French cooks have a method of preserving them in 

 the form of cakes first having cut them into small pieces, 

 or ground into powder. 



Steam engines are made in Pittsburg for less 

 than half the price paid for them in 1818, and 

 cheajier than they are in Liverpool and Manches- 

 ter. 



