To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
{ MUCH approve o? the plan laid down in 
~ the Acdress, signed, ** Common Sense,” 
in the Monthly Magazin€, whichI am in 
the habit of reading. My information relates 
tothe Ague. I was afflicted with that disor- 
der severely, when young, (perhaps about 
ten years of age) and resided with my parents 
in the West of England. A pro/essional gen- 
tlemain att:nded, but my parents were indus 
ced, by the recommendation of neighbours, to 
try the following remedy, namely, ‘* sweet- 
wort.” 
I drank ata brewery, probably about a 
pint, at first: the draught was repeated, and 
even athirdtime I drank freely all within a 
uarter of an hour. A nausea succeeded, and 
i vomited exceedingly, and the ague soon af- 
terwards left me. 
Your’s, &c, 
August 25, 1808, BRIGHTHELMSTONE. 
London. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 3 
N answer to Mr. Cooley's letter, I beg to 
relate that though there are several kinds 
of dock, yet there is only one generally known 
by the class of people, from whom tie reme- 
dy was adopted. Tat is, the sharp dock, 
vumex acutus of Linneus, lapathum acutum 
of Ray. 
This, and the rumex hydrelapathum of 
Linnzus, are the only two that are generally 
known in medicine; and the latteris, 1 believe, 
always, by way of di§tinction, called water- 
dock. Your’s &c. 
New Bridge street, Jj. Apams, M.D; 
October 8, 1808. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HEN I was a lad about twelve years old, 
my constitution was very qelicate, and 
pronounced by my parents and connections 
to be Consumptive. I was ordered a trip to sea, 
and accordingly sent in avessel going to 
Hamburgh, in the vicinity of which lived a 
distant relation ef my mother’s, to whose 
house I went. I still complained of the pain 
in my side, with a very badcough. A neigh- 
bour of their’s, an old lady, proposed a reme- 
dy for me. Some eggs of partridges were ob- 
tained, one of which was cast, as they term it, 
mixed with a tea-spoonful of bruised sugar- 
candy, and half a wine-glass full of claret, 
which I took two hours before breakfast, and 
eontinued taking, every secondday fora week, 
and the following week every morning, and- 
so on, as long as the eggs could be procured. 
Certain it is, that my complain rapidly di- 
minished. Next season I renewed the reme- 
dy, and before the end of it, my cure was 
completed. ‘he following year! again tack 
the eggs, but substituted new milk in place 
of the claret, with clean raw sugar, which I 
thought better than loaf sugar, as 1 observed 
i 
Popular Remedies for Diseases. 
[March 1, 
the last threw up a mixture of lime in it, 
which I am told is used in refining it. In 
Short, I attribute my perfect recovery to the 
old Jady’s recipe. 1 haveoccasionally admin- 
istered my own cure to young people, con- 
sumptively inclined; and of nineteen, I veri- 
ly believe fifteen have been recovered by it, 
To preserve a stock of partridge eggs, let 
them be laid ina cool place, well rubbed with 
fresh butter, and they will keep for four or - 
five months. It is sometimes difficule to 
procure the eggs, but still, if you pay hand- 
somely, fyou will find country people indus- 
trious enough to procure them. The par- 
tridge is, perhaps, the most atliletic bird that 
exists of its size, which may possibly account 
for the virtue of its eggs. Your's &c. 
Perthskire, joun BRauM SMITH. 
October 24, 1806. . 
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Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T° promote the design of your correspon 
dent, ** Common Sense,” and observing 
in your Number for September, 1808, an in- 
stance of the usefui administraiion of dock- 
root, in the cure of scald-head; (which, by 
the bye, is only the old domestic remedy of © 
the country,) I am induced to communicate 
-the following recipe, for the cure of another 
disease—-the Scurvy, in which shape, to my 
certain knowledge, it bias often proved suc- 
cessful, in some must inveterate cases, when 
other applications had failed. 
Take sixteen ounces of the best and purest 
dock-root, to three quarts of soft water, boil 
them down to two quarts, of which a small 
tea-cup, or large wine-glass full, is to be taken 
snorning and evening, as the patient can bear it, 
When there are ulcers, take a table-spoon- 
full of the flour of brimstone, and ‘four oun= 
ces of fresh butter, and a quart of the liquid 5 
boil it toa cerate, and anoint the part there- 
with morning and evening; taking the liquid, 
as above, internally at the same time. 
It is not to be expected, that this will form 
an agreeable beverage; but the patient will 
be encouraged in its use, from the assurance 
of getting quit of a more disagreeable com- 
panion. _ 
I have the following recipe for the cure of 
the Tooth-ache, but I cannot speak with the 
same confidence of its efficacy, although I be- 
lieve, and indeed have experienced, that it 
will give temporary relief. 
Take a wine-glass tull of the best and 
strongest brandy, anda piece of hard soap, - 
sliced down, put thern into acup, and allow 
this to stand by the fire til] the soap is. com- 
pletely dissolved ; when it is cold, it will 
form asalve, which, spread on a piece of grey 
paper, and apply externally opposite .to the 
part affected. aagiaes we 
This composition is also a good remedy 
for eek Sep bruises, being well and often 
rudbed on the past. 
Leith, 
Your's &c. P 
November 215 1808. 
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