Eye Waters.
 Those who have any weakness or complaint in the eyes should carefully avoid tampering with them, and either taking to glasses, or using medicinal washes at the recommendation of ignorant people. The following may be used without jury, and may in some slight cases afford relief; but no great benefit is to be expected from them. Breast milk frequently milked into the eye from the nipple; rose-water, or elder flower water; weak green tea, or camomile tea, or rosemary tea.
  
 Embrocation. -For a Sore Throat.
 Olive oil one ounce, spirits of hartshorn half an ounce, orif the skin wil bear it, equal parts of each.
  
 Embrocation.- For the Hooping Cough.
 Oil of amber and spirits of hartshorn, of each half an ounce; volatile sal ammoniac five grains. This is very powerful, and for very young children, the sal ammoniac should be left out, and thespirits of hartshorn lessened, or indeed the oil of amber used alone; as much however of the spirits should be used as can be borne without blistering the skin. The same may be used for children in convulsions.
  
 Strengthening Mixture.
 Peruvian bark, grossly powdered, one ounce; water, a pint and a half; simmer them together a few minutes, then strain of, and add tincture of bark, two ounces; diluted nitric acid, one drachm and a half (or ninety drops). The dose is a wine-glassful three times a day.
  
 Draught.
 For a person whose strength is exhausted by frequent bleeding at the nose. -In a spoonful of mucilage of gum-arabic (see p. 611.) mix ten drops of rectified spirit of turpentine; then add of simple mint water, an ounce and a half. This draught should be repeated every sixth hour till the return of hemorrhage appears to be effectually prevented.
  
 Anodyne Balsam, or Soup Liniment.
 To an ounce of which is added half an ounce of laudanum. In violent pains occasioned by teething, this may be rubbed on the back bone; or for violent tooth ache, or face ache, a piece of flannel wet with this may be applied to the cheek, or a little of it held on in the palm of the hand.
  
 Remedy for the Ring-worm.
 Fine starch reduced to powder, and kept constantly ap- plied on and around the parts affected with the ring-worm, will soon cure that teazing and infectious cuticular distemper. On the head the ring-worm sometimes comes to running sores, which must once or twice a day be washed with soap and water, and dressed with basilicon ointment, keeping the rest of the head dry and constantly covered with powdered starch. The body must be kept gently open with sulphur and cream of tartar.
  
 Cure for Corns.
 Place the feet for half an hour, two or three nights successively, in a pretty strong solution of soda or lees of potash. 'The alkali dissolves the indurated cuticle, and the corn falls out spontaneously, leaving a small excavation which soon fills up.
 Another,-Bind a common muscle to the part affected, a-l lowing it to remain on al night. The best mode of applying it is to take of one half of the shell, leaving the other tokeep together the moisture and strength of the muscle.
  
 Sir Astley Cooper's Chilblain Liniment.
 Spirits of wine one ounce; liquor of subacete of lead, half an ounce.
  
 Sir Charles Wheeler's Recipe for the Hot Black Balsam.
 Very efficacious in cases of Scrofula. -Sold only by Strickland, Druggist, High Street Coventry, at 5d a pot.
  
 Take pot marjoram, St. John's wort, mullen, scurvy grass, ground ivy, lavender, angelica, bettony, fennel, lovage, red and green sage, wormwood, rue, penny-royal, sweet marjoram, hyssop, vervain, yarrow, nep, motherwort, adder's tongue, dragon, thyme, sarder's sentorie, rosemary, bay leaves, southernwood, wild sage, English tobacco, self-heal, balm, mint, Solomon's seal, crosswort, feverfew, night-shade, regrow, hound's tongue, plantain, arsemart, broom flowers, smallage, melelot, camomile, germander, golden rod, groundsel, nettles, dockroot, savine, comfrey, pelewort, some stone horse dung. Take five or six handfuls of each of the above ingredients, or as many of them as you can procure, beat them in a mortar, some with May butter, part with goose grease, part with deer's suet, part with boar's grease, part with skimmings of the pot, some with neatsfoot oil, and some with salad oil- then put them into an earthen pot fortwo months at least, or longer; then boil them in a pan four hours; then strain them, and to fourscore pounds weight of the juice and fat, put six pounds each of rosin, bees-wax, colophony, and black pitch, two pounds of white pitch, two quarts of oil of turpentine, three pounds of liquid storax, and three quarters of a pound of the gum elemi. Let all these boil easily for half an hour, skimming it very well, and then pot it for use.
 N. B. You need not wait till you can get al the herbs together, but beat them with the fat, &c. and put them into the earthen pot as you can get them.
  
 CHAPTER XV.
 MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES AND DIRECTIONS.
  
 Tooth Paste.
 One large or two small cuttle fish; one once of bole armenic; half anounce of burnt alum; half an ounce of Peruvian bark; a quarter of anounce of cinnamon, all finely powdered and sifted through muslin; then mixed with as much honey as will make it into a soft paste.
  
 Tooth Powder.
 To one ounce of fine powder of bark, and one ounce of guns myrrh, add three fourths of an ounce of bole armenic; mix these ingredients well together, and they will produce an excellent tooth powder, valuable in itself, and highly approved of by many gentlemen of the faculty.
  
 For Chapped Hands.
 Every time after washing drop on them a little honey, and rub them together till the stickiness is entirely removed. The same may be applied to sore lips.
  
 To make Lip Sal e.
 Take an ounce of white way and ox marrow, three ounces of white pomatum, and melt all in a bath heat; add a drachm of alkanet, and stir it till it acquire a reddish colour.
  
  
  
  
 To make the celebrated Pomade Divine.
 Beef marrow twelve ounces, steeped in water ten days, and after. wards in rose-water twenty-four hours; flowers of benjamin, pounded storax, and Florentine orris, of each half anounce; cinnamon, a quarter  of an ounce; and clove and nutmeg, a quarter of an ounce. The whole  to be put in an earthen vessel, closely covered down, to keep in the fumes, and being suspended in water made to boil three hours; after which, the whole ist o be strained and put into bottles.
  
 Pomade Divine.
 Take of beef marrow, one pound and a half, well cleaned from the bones and skin: put it into an earthen vessel with spring water, which must be changed twice a day for ten days; drain it well, and let it lie twenty-four hours in a pint of rose-water: then dry it in a clean cloth, add storax, benjamin, cypress and orris root, in fine powder, of each one ounce; cloves and nutmegs, two drachms; and half an ounce of cinnamon; carefully mix them with the marrow. Put the mass into a silver cup with a cover, tie it close down with a fine cloth, and immediately over it lay on a paste made with the white of eggs and flour, and upon that another piece of cloth. The cup must be suspended in a copper of boiling water for three hours; afterwards pass the liquor through muslin into the cups you intend to keep it in, and tie it down the next day. During the preparation, it should not be touched but with a silver spoon.
  
 To make soft Pomatum.
 Take what quantity of hog's lard you choose to make; cut it down in small pieces, and cover it with clear spring water, changing it every twenty-four hours for eight days; when it is quite white, put it into a pan, and melt it over a clear fire; when it is all melted, strain it, and put to it some essence of lemon to perfume it; so keep it for use.
  
 To make hard Pomatum.
 For hard pomatum, blanch the hog's lard in the same manner, as also some mutton suet, and boil them together with a little white wax; scent it with essence of lemon or lavender, then make round paper cases, and when cold turn down the other end, and keep it for use.
  
 Genuine Windsor Soap.
 To make this famous soap for washing the hands, shaving, &c. nothing more is necessary than to slice the best white soap as thin as possible, melt it in a stew-pan over a slow fire, scent it well with oil of caraway, and then pour it into a frame or mould made for that purpose, or a small drawer, adapted in size and form to the quantity. When it has stood three or four days in a dry situation, cut into square pieces, and it is ready for use. By this simple mode, substituting any more favourite scent for that of caraway, all persons may suit themselves with a good perfumed soap at the most trifling expense. Shaving boxes may be at once filled with the melted soap, instead of a mould.
  
 To make Jessamine Butter, or Pomatun.
 Hog's lard melted, and well washed in clear water, laid an inch thick in a dish, and strewed over with jessamine flowers, will imbibe the scent, and make a very fragrant pomatum.
  
 Essence of Soap for Shaving or Washing Hands.
 Take a pound and a half of fine white soap in thin slices, and add thereto two ounces of salt of tartar; mix them well together, and put this mixture into one quart of spirits of wine, in a bottle which will hold double the quantity of the ingredients; tie a bladder over the mouth of the bottle, and prick a pin through the bladder; set it to digest in a gentle heat, and shake the contents from time to time, taking care to take out the pin at such times to allow passage for the air from within; when the soap is dissolved, filter the liquor through paper, to free it from impurities; then scent it with a little bergamot or essence of lemon. It will have the appearance of fine oil, and a small quantity will lather with water like soap, and is much superior in use for washing or shaving.
  
 Method of extracting Essences from Flowers.
 Procure a quantity of the petals of any flowers which have an agree. able fragrance; card thin layers of cotton, which dip into the finest Florence or Luca oil; sprinkle a small quantity of fine salt on the flowers, and lay them, a layer of cotton, and a layer of flowers, until an earthen vessel or a wide-mouthed glass bottle is full. 'Tie the top close with a bladder, then lay the vessel in a south aspect to the heat of the sun, and in fifteen days, when uncovered, a fragrant oil may be squeezed away from the whole mass, little inferior (if that flower is made use of, to the dear and highly valued otto or odour of roses.
  
 To make Washballs.
 Shave thin two pounds of new white soap into about a tea-cupful of rose-water; then pour as much boiling water on as will soften it. Put into a brass pan a pint of sweet oil, four penny-worth of oil of almonds, half a pound of spermaceti, and set all over the fire till dissolved; then add the soap, and half an ounce of camphor that has first been reduced to powder by rubbing it in a mortar with a few drops of spirits of wine or lavender-water, or any other scent. Boil ten minutes; then pour it into a basin, and stir till it is quite thick enough to roll up into hard balls, which must then be done as soon as possible. If essence is used, stir it in quick after it is taken of the fire, that the flavour may not fly off.
  
 To make Milk of Roses.
 To one pint of rose water, add one ounce of oil of almonds, and ten drops of the oil of tartar.
 N. B. Let the oil of tartar be poured in last.
 Another way. -Two ounces of rose-water, a tea-spoonful of oil of sweet almonds, and twelve drops of oil of tartar must be put into a bottle, and the bottle well shaken till the whole combines.
  
 Wash for the Skin.
 Four ounces of potash, four ounces of rose-water, two ounces of pure brandy, and two ounces of lemon juice; put all these into two quarts of water, and when you wash, put a table-spoonful or two of the mixture into the basin of water you intend washing in.
  
 To increase the Growth of Hair.
 Hartshorn beat small, and mixed with oil, being rubbed upon the head of persons who have lost their hair, will cause it to grow again as at first.
  
 To promote the Growth of Hair.
 Mix equal parts of olive oil and spirits of rosemary, and add a few drops of oil of nutmeg. If the hair be rubbed every night with a little of this liniment, and the proportion be very gradually augmented, it will answer every purpose of increasing the growth of hair, much more effectually than can be attained by any of the boasting empirical preparations which are imposed on the credulous purchaser.
  
 To make Eau de Luce.
 Take of spirits of wine one ounce, spirit of sal-ammoniacum four ounces, oil of amber one scruple, white Castile soap ten grains. Digest the soap and oil in the spirits of w e, add the ammoniacum, and shake them well together.
  
 To make Hungary Water.
 Take a quantity of the flowers of rosemary, put them into a glass retort, And pour in as much spirits of wine as the flowers can imbibe; dilute the retort well, and let the flowers macerate for six days, then distil it in a sand heat.
  
 Pot Pourri.
 Put into a large China jar the following ingredients inlayers, with bay-salt strewed between the layers; two pecks of damask roses, part in buds and part blown; violets, orange-flowers, and jasmine, a hand fat of each; orris root sliced, benjamin and storax, two ounces of each; a quarter of an ounce of musk; a quarter of a pound of angelica-root sliced; a quart of the red parts of clove-gilliflowers; two handfuls of lavender flowers; half a handful of rosemary flowers; bay and laurel leaves, half a handful of each; three Seville oranges, stuck as full of cloves as possible, dried in a cool oven, and pounded; halfa handful of knotted marjoram; and two handfuls of Balm of Gilead dried. Cover all quite close. When the pot is uncovered, the perfume is very fine.
  
 A quicker sort of Sweet Pot.
 Take three handfuls of orange-flowers, three of clove-gillyflowers, three of damask roses, one of knotted marjoram, one o f lemon-thyme, six bay-leaves, a handful of rosemary, one of myrtle, half one of mint, one of lavender, the rind of a lemon, and a quarter of an ounce of cloves. Chop all; and put them in layers, with pounded bay-salt between, up to the top of the jar. If all the ingredients cannot be got at once, put them in as you get them; always throwing in salt with every new article.
  
 TO DESTROY VERMIN OF DIFFERENT KINDS.
  
 To destroy Beetles.
 Take some small lumps of unslaked lime, and put into the chinks or holes from which they issue, it will effectually destroy them; or it may be scattered on the ground, if they are more numerous than in their holes.
  
 Another way. -The simplest and most effectual way of destroying beetles is by means of red waters. As it has become usual to substitute vermition for red lead in the composition of wafers, it will be necessary to ask particularly for such as have been made with red lead. Strew these in the neighbourhood of the crevices from which these insects issue, and their future incursions will be speedily prevented. Cock roaches may be destroyed by the same means.
  
 For destroying Bugs and Worms in Wood.
 An eminent physician has discovered that by rubbing wood with a solution of vitriol, insects and bugs are prevented from harbouring there. When the strength of this remedy is required to be increased, there need only be boiled some coloquintida apples in water in which, after- wards, vitriol is dissolved, and the bedstead with the wood about them, and the wainscotting, being anointed with the liquor, will be ever after clear of worms or bugs. The wall may be like wise rubbed with the composition, and some o fit may be dropped into the holes where these insects are suspected to be harboured. As to the walls, they require only to be washed over with the vitriol water.
  
 To destroy Crickets.
 Mix some roasted apples with a little white arsenic powdered, and out a little of this mixture into the holes or cracks in which the crickets are; they will eat it and perish.
  
 To destroy the Insect which attacks the Appletree, commonly called the White Blight, or American Blight.
 To a strong decoction of the digitalis or foxglove add a sufficient quantity of fresh cow-dung to give it such a consistence as may enable you to apply it with a painters' brush to those parts of the bark of the tree which afford a harbour for this destructive insect. The insect is generally destroyed by the first application, though in some instances it may be necessary to repeat it. It has been remarked that the insect never returns in future years to those warts of the tree which have been thus treated.
  
 To destroy Earwigs and Woodlice.
 A very simple way of ensnaring them, and by which they may be taken alive in great quantities, is to place for inch cuts of reeds, bean halm, or strong wheat straw, among the branches, and also lay a number on the ground, at the bottom of the wall. In these the insects take refuge at day-break, as they depredate chiefly in the night; and any time through the day they may be blown into a bottle with a little water in it, and so be drowned. Or, a cheaper way is to burn the straw, and scatter fresh on the ground.
  
 The Use of Garlic against Moles, Grubs, and Snails.
 Moles are such enemies to the smell of garlic, that, in order to get rid of these troublesome and destructive guests, it is sufficient to introduce a few heads of garlic into their subterraneous walks. It is likewise employed with success against grubs and snails.
  
 To prevent Slugs from getting into Fruit Trees.
 If the trees are standards, tha coarse horsehair rope about them, two or three feet from the ground. If they are against the wall, nail a marrow slip of coarse horsehair cloth there, about half a foot from the ground, and they will never get over it, for if they attempt it, it will kill them, as their bellies are soft, and the horsehair will wound them.
  
 To destroy Wasps and Flies instantly.
 Wasps and flies may be killed very fast, by dipping a feather in a little sweet oil, and touching their backs with it; they will instantly die. When intent on the fruit, and half-buried in the excavations they have made, they are easily come at, and are not apt to fly about. Insects of different kinds are easily killed by oil; it closes up the lateral pores by which they breathe.
  
 To destroy Rats or Mice.
 Mix flour of malt with some butter; add thereto a drop or two of oil of aniseed; make it up into balls, and bait your traps therewith. If you have thousands, by this means you may take them all.
 Another way. Equal parts foil of amber and ox gall; oatmeal sufficient to make a stiff paste; roll it up in balls and lay about. Place ner the balls flat pans with water. The rats eat this mixture greedily, and then drink till they die.
  
 To destroy Bugs.
 Take of the highest rectified spirits of wine (viz. lamp spirits), that will burn away dry and leave not the least moisture behind, half a pint: new distilled oil, or spirits, of turpentine, half a pint: mix them together, and break into it, in small bits, half an ounce of camphor; which will dissolve in a few minutes; shake them well together, and with a sponge, or a brash, dipt in some of it, wet very well the bed or furniture wherein these vermin harbour and breed, and it will infallibly kill and destroy both them and their nits, although they swarm ever se much. But then the bed or furniture must be well and thoroughly wet with it (the dust upon them being first brushed and shook off), by which means it will neither stain, soil, nor in the least hurt the finest silk or damask bed. that is. The quantity here ordered of this curious neat white mixture, which costs about a shilling, will rid any one bed whatever, though it swarms with bugs. Do but touch a live bug with a drop o fi t ,and you will find it die immediately; if any should happen to appear after once using, it will only be for want of well wetting the lacing, &c. of the bed, or the foldings of the linings or curtains, near the rings, or the joints or holes in and about the bedstead, or head-board, where in the bugs or nits nestle and breed, and then their being well wet altogether again, with more of the same mixture, which dries in as fast as you use it, pouring some of it into the joints or holes where the sponge or brush cannot reach, will never fail absolutely to destroy the mall. Some beds, that have much wood-work, can hardly be thoroughly cleaned without being first taken down; but others that can be drawn out, or that you can get well behind to be done as it should be, may.
 Note. -The smell this mixture occasions will be gone in two or three lays, which is yet very whole some, and to many people agreeable. You must remember always to shake the liquor together very well whenever you use it, which must be in the daytime, not by candlelight, lest the subtlety of the mixture should catch the flame as you are using it, and occasion damage.
  
 Easy Method of preserving Animal Food sweet fur several Days in the Height of Summer.
 Veal, mutton, beef, or venison may be kept for nine or ten days perfectly sweet and good, in the heat of summer, by lightly covering the same with bran, and hanging it in a high and windy room; therefore a cupboard full of small holes, or a wire safe, so as the wind may have a passage through, is recommended to be placed in such a room, to keep away the flies.
  
 To preserve Meat by Treacle.
 This experiment has been successfully tried in the following manner. A gentleman puta piece of beef into treacle, and turned it often. At the end of a month he ordered it to be washed and boiled, and had the pleasur to find it quite good, and more pleasant than the same piece would have been in salt for that time. But the expense of this method must confine it to the opulent.
  
 To clean Marble.
 Take a bullock's gall, a gill of soap lees, half a gill of turpentine, and make it into a paste with pipe-clay; then apply it to the marble, and let it dry a day or two: then rub it off; and, if not clean, apply it a second or third time until it is clean.
  
 To clean Alabaster or Marble.
 Beat pumice stones to an impalpable powder, and mix it up with vermice; let it stand for two hours, then dip into it a sponge, and rub the marble or alabaster, wash it with a linen cloth and freshwater, and dry it with clean linen rags.
 To paint a Fender Green.
 Quarter of a pound of varnish green; to do the bottom a quarter of a pound of black paint with a little varnish in it; a sixpenny sash tool. Do the green first, then wash it in turpentine; then do the black, wash it again in turpentine, and bang it up for future use.
  
 To take Mildew out of Linen.
 Take soap, and rub it well; then scrape some fine chalk, and rub that also in the linen; lay it on the grass; as it dries wet it a little, and it will come out at twice doing.
  
 To prevent the Freezing of Water in Pipes in the Winter Time.
 By tying up the ball-cock, during the frost, the freezing of pipes will often be prevented; in fact, it will always be prevented where the main pipe is higher than the cistern or other reservoir, and the pipe is laid in a regular inclination from one to the other, for then no water can remain in the pipe; or it the main is lower than the cistern, and the pipe regularly inclines, upon the supply's ceasing, the pipe will immediately exhaust itself into the main. Where water is in the pipes, if each cock is left a little dripping, this circulation of the water will frequently prevent the pipes from being frozen.
  
 Easy Method of purifying Water.
 Take a common garden pot, in the midst of which place a piece of wickerwork; on this spread a layer of charcoal of four or five inches in thickness, and above the charcoal a quantity of sand. The surface of the sand is to be covered with paper pierced full of holes, to prevent the water from making channels in it. This filter is to be renewed occasionally. By this process, which is at once simple and economical, every person is enabled to procure pure limpid water at a very trifling expense.
  
 Method of preserving Grapes.
 Take a cask or barrel, inaccessible to the external air, and put into it a layer of bran, dried in an oven, or of ashes well dried and sifted, Upon this, place a layer of grapes well cleaned, and gathered in the afternoon of a dry day, before they are perfectly ripe. Proceed thus with alternate layers of bran and grapes, till the barrel is fall, taking care that the grapes do not touch each other, and to let the last layer be of bran; then close the barrel, so that the air may not be able to penetrate, which is an essential point. Grapes, thus packed, will keep nine or even twelve months. To restore them to their freshness, cut the end of the stalk of each bunch of grapes, and put that of white grapes into white wine, and that of the black grapes into red wine, as you would put flowers into water, to revive or keep them fresh.
  
 To preserve Potatoes from the Frost.
 If you have not a convenient store-place for them, dig a trench three or tour feet deep, into which they are to be laid as they are taken up, and then covered with the earth taken out of the trench, raised up in the middle like the roof of a house, and covered with straw, to carry off the rain. They will be thus preserved from the frost, and can be taken up as they are wanted.