436 MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT LIQUOR. 



This fa<ft I do not fpeak to from perfonal 

 examination ; but I received it from, an 

 authority, on which I have every reafon to 

 rely. 



From two or three iliriking cafes of this 

 diforder, to which I had an opportunity of 

 paying fome attention, it appeared to me 

 to be the joint effect of cider, and of a vile 

 fpirit which is drawn, by the houfewives 

 of Devon, from the grounds and lees of the 

 fermenting room. Thefe dregs are diftilled 

 (of courfe illegally) by means of a porridge 

 pot, with a tin head fixed over it, and com- 

 municating with a flraight pipe, paffing 

 through a hogfhead of water j " the liquor 

 being pafTed twice through this imperfe(3: 

 apparatus. It, of courfe, comes over ex- 

 tremely empyreumatic ; and is drank in a 

 recent Hate, under the appropriate name of 

 " neceflity.'* 



The patient having brought on, by an 

 inordinate ufe of rough corrofive cider, and 

 by the quantity of acid thrown into the 

 habit, a fit of the ordinary colic, has re- 

 courfe to " necefiity," in order to remove 

 the complaint. The confequence is an 



obflinate 



