CIIARCOAL.

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tonst, the old Salernitan School had a prohibitive

maxim : - " Non cornedas crushim dolorem '/»"' gignit

adustam."

" And scc Unit ornsU tliou do forbeai to eat.Because tluit angry eholer they böget."

Animal charcoa) made from bullock's blood is thoughltolie specially free from impurities.

Soot (ftdigo), another form of burnt carbon-mineral,has becn similarly triturated, and employed with groatbenefit in some forma of external cancer and for chroniculcers, being used dry oxternally, and given medicinallyas a tincture or extraut. Chimney swceps suffer froma particular kind of cancer caused by dry soot becomingcollected in the folds of the skin, especially of thescrotum, this cancer being of a dry, ragged, wartytiaturo. "Soot is in open cancer," says M. Dalreyne,"of all local applications the best, because detersive,plastic, and regenerative." Lard and soot may beraixed in equal parts as an ointment, or glycerine beused instead of lard; or the soot may be applied dry.«heu it will hasten the Separation of sloughs.

The tusks of elephants, burnt as tvory and powdered,tnake another form of Animal charcoal. By Southey,in bis Common Place Boofc, we are told that Mr. Newton'«wife (177G) took tincture of soot; and in some districtsthe snuff of a candle is given for ague, as much as willlie 011 a sixpence, made into an electuary with honey,or mixed with ginger. By the Norfolk rustics this isesteemed a sovereign specific. It is a combinationof animal and vegetable charcoal, the latter of whichis likeuiso of extensive medicinal powers whcn tritu-rated to a high dilution, though almost inert whencrude. For the flatulence of acid indigestion, wheregas distends the stomach, with much oppression after