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ANOTHER. Take twenty grains of powdered jalap, 

 three grains of calomel, and four grains of golden 

 sulphur of antimony; mix them with a little butter 

 or lard. Give him three of these doses, one every 

 other morning. This is perhaps preferable to any 

 of the preceding. 



For the Bite of a Viper, or other Venomous Creature. 



I am well aware that a great number of receipts 

 have at different times been prescribed for curing 

 the bite of the viper, &c., some of which, I am cer- 

 tain, are ineffectual. I shall not therefore trouble 

 my readers with enumerating them, but only men- 

 tion one simple, though certain, remedy, which is 

 nothing but sweet oil. Of this I have made repeated 

 trials, and can recommend it, without hesitation, as 

 an infallible cure. When a dog has been bit by a 

 viper, slow-worm, &c. (and the animal's nose is the 

 part most likely to be bitten) the bitten part will 

 immediately swell ; and whenever the sportsman 

 perceives this to be the case, he has only to rub it 

 well with sweet oil (olive oil is the best). Should a 

 considerable time elapse before he is able to procure 

 oil, and the poison have materially affected the dog, 

 a spoonful of oil should be poured down his throat,, 

 and the bitten part held over a charcoal fire while 

 the oil is well rubbed in. It will seldom happen, 

 however, that any thing more will be necessary than 

 a little common sweet oil rubbed well on the wound. 

 It may not be amiss to observe, that olive oil and a 



