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4. Recipes furnished by Mr. Eli W. Blake, 



1. To make a Lacker for Brass. — Take eight ounces of 

 spirits of wine, and one ounce of arnotto, well bruised — 

 mix this in a bottle by itself. Then take one ounce of 

 gamboge, and mix it in like manner with the same quantity 

 of spirits — and bruised saffron steeped in spirits to nearly 

 the same proportion. 



Take seed-lac varnish what quantity you please, and 

 brighten it to your mind by the above mixtures. If it be too 

 yellow, add a little more from the arnotto bottle ; if it be 

 too red, add a little more from the gamboge or saffron bot- 

 tle 5 if too strong, add spirits of wine. 



2. To make Seed-lac Varnish. — Take spirits of wine, one 

 quart; put it in a wide-mouthed bottle, and add thereto 

 eight ounces of seed-lac, which is large-grained, bright, and 

 clear, free from sticks and dirt; let it stand two days or 

 longer in a warm place, often shaking it. Strain it through 

 flannel into another bottle, and it is fit for use. 



5. Extract of a letter to the Editor, from Beaufort, South 



Carolina. 



1. Remarks on the use of Sulphur in Rheumatism.—- 

 In a letter written by Professor Olmsted, and addressed 

 to the Editor of this Journal, (Vol. VIII. No. 2,) mention 

 is made of a man who was severely afflicted with swellings 

 of the joints, &c. brought on, it was supposed, by his having 

 taken large doses of sulphur, — ^^to which remedy he had 

 been advised to resort by a quack in order to cure a rheu- 

 matic affection under which he laboured. Is it not most 

 likely, that the disease in question was caused by rheuma- 

 tism, and that the swellings of the joints, &c., would have 

 taken place, although the sulphur had never been adminis- 

 tered ? I am the more inclined to this opinion from the well 

 known tendency which rheumatism has to terminate in this 



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