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from 2 to 3 ounces, or more for some persons, to be taken every morning for g 

 days. The patient must fast for three hours after it ; and the dregs that remain 

 after expression must be bound upon the wound ; renewing it every 24 hours. 

 That the Qth day after the bite must not be let slip, before this medicine be 

 taken, lest the poison seize the blood too strongly. It must be given cold, or 

 at least only a little warmed. A double quantity may be given to a beast soon 

 after the bite. This remedy having been administered several times, was never 

 found to fail. « 



Anotker. — Pluck the feathers from the breech of an old cock, and apply it 

 bare to the wound. If the dog were mad, the cock will swell and die, and the 

 patient will do well ; but if the cock dies not, the dog was not mad. If the 

 wounds be very small, it is proper to open them with a lancet. 



jinolher. — Let the patient be nine times plunged in the sea, while he is fast- 

 ing, as soon as possible after the bite. Let the bitten part be washed with a lye 

 of the ashes of oak wood and urine, and apply a cataplasm of good treacle, 

 alliaria, or hedge garlic, rue and salt. 



Take dried rue and scordium, of each 2 drachms, Virginia snake-root l\ 

 drachm, flowers of St. John's wort 3 drachms, fine filings of tin and garlic cut 

 small, each 4 drachms, good treacle 1 ounce : let them be all beaten and exactly 

 mixed together, adding syrup of lemon peels sufficient to make it into an 

 electuary ; divide this into g equal parts, one to be taken every day, drinking 

 after it a small draught of good strong ale. Let him walk after it, and not eat 

 till 4 hours after. Use as little of the syrup of lemon peels as may be : if it 

 cannot be had, a syrup made of Malaga-wine, adding as much sugar as it can 

 dissolve, may serve the purpose. Make up of this electuary 4i ounces at a 

 time, that so thfe dose may be half an ounce. 



The Zirchnitzer Sea in Carniola described. By M. J. Weichard Palvasor. 



N° igi, p. 411.* 

 This lake was by the ancients called Lugea Palus, by the moderns Lacus 

 Lugeus, though at present its Latin name be Lacus Cirknicensis, in high Dutch 

 Zircknizer Sea, and in our CarnioJan tongue Zirknisko Jesero. It is at the dis- 

 tance of 6 German miles from the capital city of the province Labac, and is a 

 good German mile long, and about half as much in breadth. Its ordinary 

 depth is 10 cubits, its least 5 or 6, rarely 3, its greatest is l6 cubits. It is 

 every where surrounded with woody mountains, which on the south and west 



• See N" 54, p, 409, vol. i. of this Abridgment. 

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