4u AN Essay on the oopas, or 



Iserent earth; a proportionate quantity of water 

 is poured on^ and it is bolled about an bour^ 

 \Then the fluid is carefullj filtered tbroiigb a 

 v/bite clotb ; — it is tben exposed to tJb.e fireagaiii 

 ?a?d boiled do\yn to nearlj ih^ consistence of an 

 extract ; in this state it lïiuch resembles a tbick 

 svrop. The followihg Spices having been pre- 

 pared as above described, are added in the same 

 proportion as to the Antsbar, viz. Kaempferia 

 Galanga^ ( Kontshiir, ) Soontij, %c, Dshey, for 

 common Onion, GarliQj and Mcick Feppe7\ 



The expressed jnice of these is poured into 

 tlievessel^ wbich is once more exposed to the fire 

 a few minutes^ when the preparation is complete. 

 The Oopas of botb kinds must be preserved ia 

 verj close vessels. 



EXPERIMENTS. 

 1, With the Antshar, 



EXPERIMENT I. 



A dos: of middlina: size was woundcd in the 

 muscles of the tbigh with an arrow that bad 

 been immcrsed into the newly prepared Oopas^ 

 and had been exposed to the air one night. 



In 3 minutes be seemed uneasv, lie tremblcd 

 and had occasioual twitcbiugs, hit hair stood 



