4810.) 
the hand, and the latter on the middle 
finger. Baset and his daughter LMime- 
diately applied to don Thomas Sabater, 
the surgeon of their village, who fur- 
nished them with powder sufficient for 
nine days. On the contrary, Fauro, 
who lived at another village, luoked upon 
his wound as a mere trifle, and took no 
further notice of it. 
‘ « What was the consequence? Baset 
and his daughter were perfectly cured, 
and have for these three years experienced 
not the least alteration in their bealth; 
whereas the unfortunate Fauro died sixty 
days after the accident, with all the 
“symptoms of the most confirmed hy- 
drophubia. Ree 
« Another mad dogin Sierra den Gar- 
ceran, had bitten several other dogs, 
pigs, &c. The powder was administered 
to some of them for eleven successive 
days; and, ull the present moment, 
during the space of nearly two years, no 
it] consequences whatever have been ob- 
served. All the animals to whom the 
powder was not given, died raving mad 
in twenty-five days. 
« Qne dog, to whom it was found im- 
possible to administer more than Jour 
doses, did not go mad, but fell into a 
kind of lethargy, and refused to eat; tll 
at length he died on the sixtieth day, but 
‘without any of the symptoms of actual 
hydrophobia. 
“So much for the experiments with a 
remedy, which, as far as I know, has _ 
never been included among the six or 
seven medicines for preventing the con- 
sequences of the bite of mad dogs. It 
seems, however, to be so niuch the more 
deserving of the attention of the physi- 
cians of every country, as its efficacy 
against the venom of the viper is fully 
nfirmed by the experience of ages.*” 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
IVE we leave, through the channel 
of your truly valuable and most 
entertaining miscellany, to cominunicate 
to the public the following wonderful 
cure for an excessively obstinate purgative 
complaint in the bowels, upon a woman 
of between eighty and ninety, and a man 
turned of seventy years of age: besiaes | 
a great many others, lately preserved by 
this comfortable recipe; all which makes 
* I find from the Spanish journals, that 
- 
Cure for a Cholera Morbis.-Crows and Geese. 
419 
me desirous, that for less than the value 
of one shilling, which the ingredients will 
cost, the public should be thus put in 
possession of it: 
Vuke of myrrh, coarsely bruised or 
powdered, half am ounce, put it intoa 
saucepan, or glazed pipkin, sufficiently 
capacious; and add to the myrrh, a 
pint and a half of cold spring-water, 
taking care to stir the myrrh well ia it 
before placing it on the fire, to prevent 
its becoming bumpy: then pat into the 
above mixture also half an’ ounce, or 
three tea-spoonfuls, of purée starch, and 
three or four pieces of ginger, according - 
to their size. When these ingredients are 
all stirred together in the fluid, place the 
saucepan on the fire, and boil them from 
five to eight minutes, occasionally taking 
it off to prevent it from boiling over, 
into the fire: let it then be strained hot 
through a cloth, or sieve, into a bason, 
and covered over with a plate till cold; 
then add to it half an ounce of prepared 
chalk, gradually mixed with some of the | 
decoction by means of a large spoon, ia 
a bason or cup; add likewise two ortiinee 
table-spoonfuls of tincture of rhubarb: 
then put all into a wine quart, which is’ 
to be filled up with peppermint, or plain 
water, 1f there be not sufficient of the 
mixture without. 
Then take two table-spoonfuls for a 
dose, two or three times, or oftener if 
requisite, a day. 
Lppollitts. Joun Paocrer, 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magaszna, 
SIR, 
crows, having once paired, and had 
young, are faithful to one another; ang 
that on the death of the one, the other = 
generally lives a solitary hfe, and not 
unfrequently dies of vexation. Can avy 
of your intellisent readers say how far 
this is a fact? I have the best reason:te 
conclude that geese, haying once paired, 
if left,to themselves, contiiue faithful ta 
one another; a kindof new courtship each 
spring commencing between the saine 
pair: and that a gander, still alive, his 
mate having died tweuty years ago, still 
lives a solitary life. | James Hair. 
ae ie ; 
To the, Editor of the Bonthly Magazine, 
JESTER 
N tiie year 1807, I became asubscribep 
for a ** Terrestrial Stereograph, upoi 
fae ancients were of opinion, that 
the Plane of the Iquator,” anda “Ce- 
- Jestiat Stercegraph to exhibit all the stars 
visibig 
this powder has likewise been tried at Ma- 
~ dsid with camplete success- 
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