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APPENDIX.

Mustard Whey.—Take milk and water, of eacb a pint; bruisedmustard seed, an ounce and a half. Boil them together till the eufdis perfectly separated ; afterwards strain the whey through a cloth.—This is the most elegant, and by no means the least efficacious,method of exhibiting mustard. It warms and invigorates the habit,and promotes the different secretions. Hence, in the low state ofnervous fevers, it will often supply the place of wine. It is also ofuse in the chronic rheumatism, palsy, dropsy, &c. The addition ofa little sugar will render it more agreeable. The dose is an ordinarytea-cupful four or five times a day.

Antiscorbutic Whey.—This whey is made by boiling half a pint ofthe antiscorbutic juices in a quart of cow's milk. More benefit, how-ever, is to be expected from eating the plants than from their express-ed juices.—The antiscorbutic plants are bitter oranges, broaklime,garden scurvy-grass, and water cresses.—A number of other wheysmay be prepared nearlj in the same manner, as orange whey, creamof tartar whey, &c. These are cooling pleasant drinks in fevers, andmay be rendered cordial, when necessary, by the addition of wine.

WINES.

The effects of wine art, to raise the pulse, promote perspiration,warm the habit, and exhilarate the spirits. The red wines, besidesthese effects have an astringent quality, by which they strengthen thetone of the stomach and intestines, and by this means prove service-able in restraining immoderate secretions. The thin sharp wines havea different tendency ; they pass off freely by the different emunctories,and gently open the body. The effects of the full-bodied wines are,however, mu»hmore durabk than those of the thinner.

All sweet wines contain glutinous substance, and do not pass offfreely. Hence they will heat the body more than an equal quantity ofany other wine, though it should contain full as much spirit. Promthe obvious qualities of wine, it must appear to be an excellent cor-dial medicine. Indeed, to say the truth, it is worth all the rest puttogether. But to answer this character, it must be sound and good.No benefit is to be expected from the common trash that is oftensold by the name of wine, without possessing one drop of the juiceof the grape. Perhaps no medicine is more rarely obtained genuinethan wine. Wine is not only used as a medicine, but is also em-ployed as a menstruum for extracting the virtues of other medicinalsubstances ; for which it is not ill adapted, being a compound ofwater, inflammable spirit, and acid ; by which means it is enabled toact upon vegetable or animal substances, and also to dissolve somebodies of the metallic kind, so as to impregnate itself with theirvirtues, as steel, antimony, &c.

Anthelmintic Wine.—Take of rhubarb, half an ounce : worm-seed,an ounce. Bruise them, and infuse without heat in two pints of redport wine for a few days, then strain off the wine.—As the stomachs ofpersons afflicted with worms are always debilitated, red wine alonewill often prove serviceable : itmust however, have still better effectswhen joined with bitter and purgative ingredients, as in the aboveform. A giass of this wine mav be taken twice or thrice a day.