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is very luxuriant, either by nature or art, 



barley will not be tit lor the malster. 

 t is a good practice to give malt as much 

 'ing as possible on the floor ; it does not 

 ink so much as on the kiln, and acquires no 

 eign taste ; when it comes to the kiln, the 



in the furnace should be moderate but equal. 

 ."' Jrown malt, used in the same proportion a? 

 e, will not make the strongest beer ; but the 

 e malts that are slack dried, make a raw un- 

 olesome liquor that will not keep, 

 tfalsters should never buy barle}' grown on 

 ifii, ious soils, or even dilTerent tiehls, because 



kernels will spire at diflerent times ; they 

 uld therefore never buj' tythe barley. A 

 Ister having bought one hundred quarters 

 lythe barley, without knowing it, soon dis- 

 'ercd it in the malting, and sold it to a hog- 

 der for eight-pence a quarter less than he 

 ■e, as the least loss he should incur by his 

 gain. 



To discover whether malt has been made of 

 fed or unripe barley, throw a couple of hand- 



of it into a bowl of water ; stir it gently, 

 ! the grains that have not been malted will 

 k, the half-malted grains will have one end 

 k, and so swim in a perpendicular position, 

 I those that are perfectly malted will swim. 

 le best barley will not malt equally well at 

 times. As soon as housed, before it is in 

 eat, and after the sweating Is over, it will 

 It well, but not while it Is in sweat. 

 iarley that has been got in early in a very 



season malts hut indifferently ; but if the 

 le barley is left abroad till rain falls on it to 

 sen the husks from the kernel, it will malt 

 II, and yield a large increase. 



thod of extracting the virtue of Hops in Brewing. 

 The usual method is to put in hops without 

 ■ prepartion into the strong beer or ale wort ; 

 consequence is, the richer and better the 

 rt is, the less It will partake of the essence 

 the hops. The rich fat wort sheathes up 

 ; pores of the hop, and, as it were, embalms 

 : leaves, so that the beer or ale wort can ex- 

 ct scarcely any part of the necessary quality 

 the hop ; but when it is put into the small 

 ;r wort, a fluid of a more thin nature, there 

 ! pores are unsheathed, and the small beer is 

 idered too bitter; therefore the hops, before 

 :y are put into the strong drink, should be 

 eviously soaked in a pail of hot water. 

 To confirm the truth of this observation, 

 te a quarter of an ounce of the best green 

 1, and instead of pouring on it simple boiling 

 iter, let the water have the same quantity of 

 gar boiled in it that would be necessary to 

 eeten so much tea when made, and you will 

 d that the sweetness of the water will pre- 

 nt its extracting the grateful bitter of the tea. 



Cheap and easy Method of Brewing. 

 ^One bushel of malt, and three quarters of a 

 lund of hops will, on an average, brew twen- 

 gallons of good beer. 



For this quantity of malt, boil twenty-four 

 .lions of water; and havmg dashed it in the 

 pper with cold water to stop the boiling, 

 ;ep the malt (properly covered up) for three 

 jurs; then tie up the hops in a hair cloth, and 

 >il malt, hops, and wort, all together, for three 

 larters of an hour, which will reduce it to 

 'Out twenty gallons. Strain it off, and set it 

 ' work when luke-warra. 



In large brewings this process perhaps would 

 not answer, but in small ones, where the waste 

 is not so great, and where the malt can be boil- 

 ed, the essence is sure to be extracted. 



Best method of making Sage Cheese. 

 Take the tops of young red sage, and having 

 pressed the juice from them by beating in a 

 mortar, do the same with the leaves of spinach 

 and then mix the two juices together, .\fter 

 putting the rennet to the milk, pour in some of 

 ibis juice, regulating the quantity by the de- 

 gree of color and taste it is intended to give 

 to the cheese. As the curd appears bi'eak it 

 gently, and in an equal manner ; then, emptying 

 it into the cheese-vat, let it be a little pressed, 

 in order to make it eat mellow. Having stood 

 lor about seven hours, salt and turn it daily for 

 four or five weeks, when it will be fit to eat. 

 Tlie spinach, besides improving the flavor and 

 correcting the bitterness of the sage, will give it 

 a much finer color than can be obtained from 

 sage alone. 



East/ method of restoring and rendering legible, 

 damaged Parchment Deeds, iVc 

 The following mixture, it is asserted, will 

 make writing which has been obliterated, faded, 

 or sunk, either on paper or parchment, imme- 

 diately legible. Bruise two or three nut-galls, 

 infuse them in half a pint of white wine, and 

 let the bottle stand for two days in the sun or 

 any other equally warm situation; then wash 

 that part of the parchment or paper which is 

 wanted to have the writing recovered, by means 

 of a sponge or soft brush dipped in the vinous 

 infusion; and the purpose will be immediately 

 answered, if it be sufficiently strong. Should 

 that not happen, its powers must be increased 

 by an additional quantity of galls ; and, perhaps, 

 in some instances, stronger heat, and even 

 stronger wine, may also be necessar\'. 



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J^lEDIC^iL IXTELLIGEXCER. 



The first No. of a weekly paper, called the " Boston 

 Medical Intelligencer," was published on the 30th ult. 

 by Mr. R. M. Peck. It is edited by J. V. C. Smith, 

 M. D. Lecturer on Anatomy at the Berkshire Medical 

 Institution. It is stated in the Publisher's advertise- 

 taent that " It is the object of this paper to give op- 

 portunity of communicating, without delay, histories of 

 recent cases, developing the character of prevailing 

 diseases ; to furnish seasonable information on subjects 

 which regard public health ; and to present the reader 

 with a variety of miscellaneous matter on subjects re- 

 lating to medicine, that many times is withheld from 

 the public in general in consequence of the scarcity of 

 the works from which they are obtained." 



The following extract from the paper which is the 

 subject of this notice, shows the evil consequences of 

 burying the dead in the midst of populous cities ; a 

 custom which we are sorry to see retained with so 

 much pertinacity by certain rulers and elders thereof. 

 This method of poisoning the living, in order to shew 

 our affection for the dead, is carrying onr veneration 

 for the tombs of our ancestors to an extreme which 

 nothing but superstition can sanction. 



SEPULTURE. 

 At Sauliou, Burgundy, a mild catarrhal fever 

 was epidemic. A very corpulent bodj was 

 buried in the Church of St. Saturnin. Twenty- 

 three days after, a pit was opened by the side 



of that, in which was the corpulent body, to bury 

 a worn m who died in child-bed, tmder this fever. 

 A most fetid odour immediately filled the church, 

 and aflected all who entered. In putting the 

 woman's coffin into the pit, some sanies issued — 

 its odour strongly affected the assistants. Of 

 one hundred and seventy people who entered 

 the church, from the o|icning of the pit till the 

 burial, one hundred and forty-nine were attack- 

 ed with a putrid malignant lever, somewhat re- 

 sembling the epidemic. Its nature and intensi- 

 ty left no doubt it owed its malignity to the in- 

 fection of the church. 



A malignant epidemic fever, caused by re- 

 moval of the earth of the cemetery of St. Pe- 

 ters C'hurch, also shows the danger of burials 

 in churches and po|)ulous places. At Auvergne, 

 an old cemetery was dug over to embellish 

 the town : soon after, an epidemic apjieared 

 which carried off a great many people, partic- 

 ularly the poor, and in the neighborhood of the 

 cemetery. Six years after a like cause pro- 

 duced an epidemic in Ainbert, in Auvergne. 



The body of a very fat person was buried uu; 

 der a foot of eaitli and eight inches of stone : 

 the abundant vapours from it made it necessary 

 to dig it up. Three diggers undertook it — two 

 of them were attacked with violent vomiting, 

 and left the work: the third determined to fin- 

 ish it, and died in ten days after. 



The Curate of Ama-le-Duc, Normandy, after 

 having breathed the infected air from the body 

 he was burying, had a putrid disease, whigh re- 

 duced him to the last extremitj'. 



The lord of a village, two leagues from 

 Nantz, died. To place his coffin according to 

 his friend's wishes, it was necessary to remove 

 several coffins, among which was that of his re- 

 lation. A most fetid odour spread itself in the 

 church. Fifteen of the visitants died shortly 

 after : the four persons who removed the cof- 

 fins, died first : six curates, present at the cer- 

 emony, hardly escaped death. 



The water of the wells below the cemetery 

 of St. Louis, at Versailles, could not be used on 

 account of its fetid mass. 



At Lectoure, IGO miles S. W. from Paris, 

 the opening of a body was followed by an epi- 

 demic. 



In digging vaults in the church of St. Eus- 

 tache, Paris, it was necssary to move some bod- 

 ies, and to put others in a vault which had been 

 a long time shut. Children who went to cate- 

 chism in the church, and many adults, were 

 seized with difficulty of respiration, irregulari- 

 ties of pulse, some of them with convulsions of 

 the limbs. 



From 1776, burials In towns and churches, is 

 forbidden in France. In 1810, an Archbishop 

 of Aix in vain solicited of the government the 

 favor to be buried in his cathedral. 



The following passage is taken from Camp 

 bell's Lectures on Poetry, published In the 

 New Monthly Magazine : 



'• Hesiod summarily explains the origin of 

 evil, by throwing all the blame of it on the 

 weak sex. Superstition has seldom exhibited 

 man in a more Ignoble light, than as the au 

 thor of this fiction — a wretched being, attempt 

 ing to wreak his discontentment with life, on 

 the character of a timid helpmate de^ev.dent 

 on him, more alive ;o suffering, and doomed to 

 suffer more, than himself." 



