s fire, and
requiring a similar mode of treatment, attacks various parts of the
body, but chiefly the waist, around which it appears in numerous pimples
of a livid hue, and seldom attended with fever. No attempt should be
made to repel the eruption; the body should be kept gently open, and the
part affected rubbed with a little warm wheaten flour. Then linen bags
of oatmeal, camomile flowers, and a little bruised camphor may also be
applied, which will effectually relieve the inflammation.

SHOE BLACKING. In three pints of small beer, put two ounces of ivory
black, and one pennyworth of brown sugar. As soon as they boil, put a
dessert-spoonful of sweet oil, and then boil slowly till reduced to a
quart. Stir it up with a stick every time it is used; and put it on the
shoe with a brush when wanted.--Another. Two ounces of ivory black; one
tea-spoonful of oil of vitriol, one table-spoonful of sweet oil; and two
ounces of brown sugar; roll the same into a ball, and to dissolve it add
half a pint of vinegar.--Another. Take ivory black and brown sugar
candy, of each two ounces; of sweet oil a table-spoonful; add gradually
thereto a pint of vinegar, cold, and stir the whole till gradually
incorporated.--Another. To one pint of vinegar add half an ounce of
vitriolic acid, half an ounce of copperas, two ounces of sugar candy,
and two ounces and a half of ivory black: mix the whole well
together.--Another. Sweet oil, half an ounce; ivory black and treacle,
of each half a pound; gum arabic half an ounce; vinegar, three pints;
boil the vinegar, and pour it hot on the other ingredients.--Another.
Three ounces of ivory black, one ounce of sugar candy, one ounce of oil
of vitriol, one ounce of spirits of salts, one lemon, one table-spoonful
of sweet oil, and one pint of vinegar.--First mix the ivory black and
sweet oil together, then the lemon and sugar candy, with a little
vinegar to qualify the blacking, then add your spirits of salts and
vitriol, and mix them all well together. N. B. The last ingredients
prevent the vitriol and salts from injuring the leather, and add to the
lustre of the blacking.--Another. Ivory black, two ounces; brown sugar,
one ounce and a half; sweet oil, half a table-spoonful. Mix them well,
and then gradually add half a pint of small beer.--Another. A quarter of
a pound of ivory black, a quarter of a pound of moist sugar, a
table-spoonful of flour, a piece of tallow about the size of a walnut,
and a small