ON THE BITE OF THE ADDER. 



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disposition, exhausting sweats, and ten- 

 dency to catarrhs, chronic nervous diseases, 

 particularly hysteric attacks, epilepsy, St. 

 Vitus' dance, also, sometimes in Chronic 

 Rheumatism. 



Injurious, in plethora, inclination to 

 congestions and discharges of blood, dis- 

 eases of the heart, tendency to pulmonary 

 consumption, obstruction and induration 

 of internal organs. 



A floating bath where patients may un- 

 dress, is preferable to going in with the 

 clothes on. 



From the Mechimies' Magazine. 

 IMITATION OF GOLD. 



Take of linseed oil three ounces, Tartar 

 two ounces, yolk of eggs boiled hard and 

 beaten two ounces. Aloes half an ounce. 

 Saffron five grains, Turmeric two grains. 

 Boil all these toji,elher in an earthen vessel 

 and with it wash the iron, and it will look 

 like gold. If there be not linseed oil 

 enough, you may add more. 



From Uie Mechanics' Magazine. 

 TO TEMPER STEEL EDGE TOOLS. 



If it should be too hard, melt a sufficient 

 quantity of lead to immerse the edge of the 

 tool, having previously brightened its sur- 

 face, then plunge it into the melted lead 

 for a few minutes, till it gels sufficiently 

 hot to melt a candle, with which rub its 

 surface, then plunge it in again and keep 

 it there till the steel assumes a straw color 

 (but be careful not to let it turn blue;) 

 when that is the case take it out, ruli it 

 again with the tallow and let it cool. If it 

 should be too soft wipe the grease off and 

 repeat the process without the tallow, and 

 when sufficiently hot, plunge it in cold 

 spring water or water and vinegar mixed. 

 By a proper attention to these directions 

 and a little practice, ever}^ workman will 

 have it in his power to give a proper tem- 

 per to the tools he may use. If a saw be 

 too hard it may be tempered by the same 

 means. If you are near a plumber's shop 

 you may repeat the process conveniently 

 and without expense, when they are melt- 

 ing a pot of lead. In other cutting tools 

 y-ou must wait till the steel just begins to 

 turn blue, which is a temper which will 

 give it more elasticity, and at the same 

 time, sufficient hardness. 



From tlie Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, 



Chemical, and Agricultural Uiscoveries. 

 ON THE MEANS OF REMOVING THE EF- 

 . FECTS OF THE BITE OF THE ADDER. 



BY VV. N. . 



[Dickson's Agricultm'al Magazine, No. 7.] 



As many farms are infested with this 

 poisonous reptile, which affords a remedy 

 for its own bite, more efficacious than any 

 medicine, the writer conceived he should 

 be usefully employed in pointing out the 

 means of reiDoving the effect of the bite, 

 the success of vvhich he had four times ex- 

 perienced in its application to a pointer, 

 which had been stung by the venomous 

 reptile. The mode of cure recommended 

 by him is to procure as many adders as 

 possible in the month of May, and to take 

 the fat from them, and simmer this fat 

 over a fire to extract the oil, (which at 

 that time they yield in the greatest plenty), 

 and to preserve the same in a phial for 

 use. When any animal is stung by the 

 adder, he advises opening several places 

 in the swelled parts, with a phleme, to 

 discharge the corrupted blood, and then 

 to moisten the wound several times with 

 the viper's oil, till the svvellings begin to 

 decrease ; when it should be healed by 

 the application of an ointment, composed 

 of half a pound of pork suet, half a pound 

 of turpentine, half a quarter of a pint of 

 oil of turpentine, two ounces of linseed oil, 

 two ounces of bees-wax, two ounces of 

 rosin, and three table-spoonsful of honey, 

 which are boiled well together, and strain- 

 ed through a piece of crape; and half an 

 ounce of powdered verdigris to be stirred 

 in till the whole becomes cool. 



It is added that this ointment is also 

 extremely serviceable among horses, for 

 collar and saddle chafes, as well as for 

 kicks, cuts, c^-c. 



Observations. — The remedy recom- 

 mended for the curing of the venomous 

 bite of the adder, is in unison with the 

 opinion of the most experienced medical 

 men on the subject, and ought to be al- 

 ways kept in readiness in those parts 

 where this noxious reptile abounds. The 

 ointment is ^vell calculated for all wounds 

 from whatever cause produced. 



From the same. 



HINTS AND REMARKS ON HARVEST WORK, 



AND THE SMUT IN WHEAT. BY A. B. 



[Dickson's Agricultural Magazine, No. 11.] 



The remarks on harvest work approach 



