It will do, After til is he applied some salve, and desired 

 that the patient should refrain from indulgence, and abstain 

 from wine and fleshj for r whole mo nth. After three daysi 

 the patient was impra ing. Our Chinftae surgeons have no 

 such contrivance as tbia, and e?en ^|!!^Hwa-t6 and 



P^heen-aek, (tlioie celebrated practitioners of antiquity,) 

 could not surpass thl^. 



DOLLARS, OR (H @f ROUND-CAKED SILVER COIN, 



Etiropeana coin their silver in the ahape of little round 

 cakes ; on some is atannped the image of a foreigner on horse- 

 back, holding a aword, hence called the ^ ff\\ horse-aword 

 coin (ducatoons). Some are half this size, called ^ ^l] 

 half aword coins (half ducatoona). Some coina are smaller 

 aiHl tliicker, inscribed with European charactera, which arc 

 ^lled ^ md'tnn (rupees) : the half of iheae are called 

 >J>J§ small tuna (or half rupees). Some are aiill amaller 

 and thinner, having n, European veaael a lamped on them 5 

 these are called ^ ^ tat-l^ (ialis, or quarter ru|)ee9> Some 

 are naade of yellow gold, bearing' the figure of a foreig^ner, in a 

 standing poaturc, which are c&lkd ^ ^golden fmiatm j ao 

 also the ducatoons, half ducatoonsj and large and small 

 rupees are all occasionally made of gold ; in which case an 

 ounce of one goca for a pound of the other, and every ^old 

 coin is worth sixteen of iia like in silver. Some coina, 

 again, are made of copper, bearing a rampant tiger (lion) ; 

 Iheieare called l^lfiy (duils or d&iis) and are used as cop- 

 per cash. The English nation i* poor, not producing the 

 precious meials^ hence they have no coinage,* The French 

 (Prusaian?) make a round kind of silver coin, on which ia 

 stam|x;d a double eagle, called the ^ double eagle coin. 

 There arc also the halve* of these. Another a mall coin, 

 very thin, having foreign characters on it, la called a "^/j fang, 

 (fanatti), ten of which go Lo a rupee. The kingdom of ^ 



♦ A very smnll quantity *f English coin find* it*? way to Britavia. 

 'Tram. 



