RECEIPT BOOK. 65 



Mode of giving a drink. 



Exactly the same process is pursued, except 

 that a horn holding the liquid matter is forced up 

 the mouth; the passage being raised beyond the 

 level line, the liquid is poured out from the larger 

 end of the horn, and when the tongue is loosened 

 it is swallowed. Clark, however, ingeniously pro- 

 poses to substitute the smaller end of the horn, the 

 larger being closed, by which, he says, the horn 

 can be forced up the mouth between the teeth, and 

 poured further back so as to insure its not return- 

 ing. 



Fomentations 



Are very commonly recommended of various 

 herbs, as rue, chamomile, St. John's wort, worm- 

 wood, bay leaves, &c. but the principal virtue is to 

 be found in warmth and moi.sture, which unload the 

 vessels: but this warmth ought not to be too con- 

 siderable, except when the inflammation is within, 

 as in inflamed bowels. Here we foment to stimu- 

 late the skin, and cannot foment too hot; but when 

 we do it at once to an inflamed part, it ought not 

 to be more than of blood heat ; and it should be con- 

 tinued long, and when removed the part should be 

 dried or covered, or cold may be taken, and the in- 

 flammation increased instead of diminished. An- 

 odyne fomentations are made of poppy heads, and 

 of tobacco, and are frequently of great use. 



The method of applying fomentations is conven- 

 .lently done by means of two large woollen cloths 

 wrung out of the heated liquors; as one is cooling 

 the other should be ready to be applied. 



Poiiltices 



Act in the same way as iujuentations in allaving 



