GIZZARD OF FOWLS. QQS 



patient fv^'allow it about half an hour before the fit comes on, 

 or on tiie appearance oF the precurfory fvinptoms of the 

 fever. This being thrice repeated, it rarely happens that the 

 diforder returns. 



" Regiinen.'—A wholefome regimen is all that is neceltary 

 during the adminiflralion of this medicine, but the patient 

 fhould carefully avoid expofure to moifture or cold, particular- 

 ly in the feet/* 



The foregoing details lead us naturally to the following 

 obfervation ; 



Should this fubftance be confidered as gelatine, and pof- Quefllons whe- 

 fefling the fame property of being a febrifuge, as ftated by *^" '^ ^^ S^la- 

 M. Seguin ; or {hould we rather acknowledge it to be pof- 

 feffed of thofe particular virtues which have been attributed to 

 it by feveral emient phyficians ? M. Pia, an old apothecary 

 of Paris, affured me, that full thirty or forty years ago, the 

 powdered gizzard of poultry was recommended in all obftruc- 

 tions of the urinary paffage, in complaints of the bladder 

 occafioned by (limy matter, as well as in all nephritic pains, 



'* The efficacy of this remedy has long ago eftablifhed its Its efficacy, 

 ufe ;" and the writer adds, " that during my practice in 

 pharmacy, I have prepared large quantities of it ; fo much 

 were phyficians and their patients fatisfied with its opera- 

 tion." 



His method of preparing the gizzards was to choofe thofe they fhould not 

 of young fowls, and particularly of pullets: after cleanfing, f^jj"^** '" ^^° 

 rubbing, wafhing, and wiping them carefully, he ftrung 

 them, and left them to dry on hurdles between (heets of 

 paper, affifted by the gentle heat of a ftove, and not in the 

 fun, which, according to M. Pia, would have fpoiled them. 



When the gizzards were properly dried, they became Vitreous appear- 

 friable, almoft tranfparent, and exhibited on being broken a '"*^^' 

 vitreous appearance. 



The powder obtained was of a whitifti grey a3i-colour. Powder aft. 

 yielding in the mouth a kind of mucilage, and pofleffing a i^^i^r^Jug* i!i"'^'' 

 flightly fait and bitter tafte. faitiA. 



This powder was adminiftered twice a day, (morning and Dofe. 

 evening) in dofes of twenty-four to thirty-fix grains, in a glafs 

 Vthe infufion of pellitory of the wall ; of bearberries (uva urfi) 

 or of linffeed fweetened with fyrup. 

 Vci, XIII.—March, 1806. Q The 



