it is ready to boil, put in vinegar sufficient to
turn it to a clear whey. Let it stand some minutes, and then pour it
off. If too acid, a little warm water may be added. This whey is well
adapted to promote perspiration. Lemon or Seville orange juice may be
used instead of vinegar.

VINGARET. Chop some mint, parsley, and shalot; and mix them up with oil
and vinegar. Serve the sauce in a boat, for cold fowl or meat.

VIPERS. The bites of such reptiles should constantly be guarded against
as much as possible, as they are not unfrequently attended with
dangerous consequences. Animals of the neat-cattle kind are more liable
to be bitten and stung by these reptiles, than those of any other sort
of live stock. Instances have been known where the tongues of such
cattle have been even bitten or stung while grazing or feeding, which
have proved fatal. Such stock are, however, seldom attacked by reptiles
of the adder kind, except in cases where these are disturbed by the
animals in pasturing or feeding; which is the main reason why so many of
them are bitten and stung about the head, and occasionally the feet.
There are mostly much pain, inflammation, and swelling produced by these
bites and stings; the progress of which may commonly be checked or
stopped, and the complaint removed, by the use of such means as are
directed below. A sort of soft liquid of the liniment kind may be
prepared by mixing strong spirit of hartshorn, saponaceous liniment,
spirit of turpentine, and tincture of opium, with olive oil; the former
in the proportion of about two ounces each to three of the last,
incorporating them well together by shaking them in a phial, which will
be found very useful in many cases. A proper quantity of it should be
well rubbed upon the affected part, two or three times in the course of
the day, until the inflammation and swelling begin to disappear, after
the bottle has been well shaken. In the more dangerous cases, it may
often be advantageous to use fomentations to the affected parts,
especially when about the head, with the above application; such as
those made by boiling white poppy-heads with the roots of the
marshmallow, the leaves of the large plantain, and the tops of wormwood,
in the quantities of a few ounces of the first, and a handful of each of
the latter, when cut small, and bruised in five or six quarts of the
stale grounds of malt liquor. They may be applied frequently to the
diseased parts, rubbing th