■These three last Ingredients must be well lifted before rnixfng 
them. Incorporate the whole together with a spade, and then 
beat it with a flat board, till the composition being well di¬ 
luted be rendered as fine as plaster for ceilings. 
Reduce it to the consistence of paint rather thick, by pour¬ 
ing upon it a sufficient quantity of urine and soap-suds, and 
apply it in that state ; sprinkle then upon it wood-ashes 
mixed with a sixth part of burned bones pulverised, out of a 
tin box in the shape of a pepper-box, till the surface be en¬ 
tirely incrusted with it. The spring is the most favourable 
season for this operation. It will be proper to examine the 
application from time to time, to repair it in case it should 
have fallen off. 
There are but few individuals who want to provide them¬ 
selves with so large a quantity of this specific. With a view 
to reduce it according to exigencies, and to facilitate the 
■making of it, I will give an account of my own process. 
I got sand from a quarry, and whiting, to be ground in tire 
same manner as is done for paint; I had them both sifted, as 
Well as the ashes, and each of them put separately; after¬ 
wards I had a glass full of sand emptied into a large pail, add¬ 
ing to it eight times a3 much whiting, eight times as much 
ashes, and sixteen times as much cow-dung; these ingredients 
were then mixed together with the hand, till they were per¬ 
fectly incorporated, and laid by in a vessel on purpose. The 
quantity which is occasionally wanted, is drawn from it, and 
diluted with urine and soap-suds. I have followed the same 
proportion about the ashes and pulverised bones, having 
mixed them together in a bottle by shaking it, as I filled it gra¬ 
dually. 
In case some of the bark of the trunk should have been 
taken away, the piece itself may be replaced, which method, 
I believe, was first contrived by Mr. Bucknall; the bark of 
another less valuable part of the same tree, or even that of 
another of the same species, may be substituted, and in both 
cases, the wound having been previously well cleaned, it 
must be adjusted to it, and laid even with it in its whole cir¬ 
cumference, and kept close to it with a strong ligature for 
three weeks or a month ; the wound is then so perfectly cured 
that there hardly remains any scar. The only disadvantage I 
know of, attending this remedy, is, that it cannot be practised 
but when the sap allows the bark to detach itself from the 
wood. 
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