r fat meat, with large
draughts of beverage immediately afterwards, which turn rancid on the
stomach; and of course, these ought to be avoided. Hot tea, turbid beer,
and feculent liquors will have the same effect. A phlegmatic
constitution, or costiveness, will render the complaint more frequent
and painful. Gentle laxatives and a careful diet are the best remedy;
but hot aromatics and spirituous liquors should be avoided.

FLEAS. Want of cleanliness remarkably contributes to the production of
these offensive insects. The females of this tribe deposit their eggs in
damp and filthy places, within the crevices of boards, and on rubbish,
when they emerge in the form of fleas in about a month. Cleanliness, and
frequent sprinkling of the room with a simple decoction of wormwood,
will soon exterminate the whole breed of these disagreeable vermin; and
the best remedy to expel them from bed clothes is a bag filled with dry
moss, the odour of which is to them extremely offensive. Fumigation with
brimstone, or the fresh leaves of pennyroyal sewed in a bag, and laid in
the bed, will also have the desired effect. Dogs and cats may be
effectually secured from the persecutions of these vermin, by
occasionally anointing their skin with sweet oil, or oil of turpentine;
or by rubbing into their coats some Scotch snuff. But if they be at all
mangy, or their skin broken, the latter would be very painful and
improper.

FLIES. If a room be swarming with these noisome insects, the most ready
way of expelling them is to fumigate the apartment with the dried leaves
of the gourd. If the window be opened, the smoke will instantly drive
them out: or if the room be close, it will suffocate them. But in the
latter case, no person should remain within doors, as the fume is apt to
occasion the headache. Another way is to dissolve two drams of the
extract of quassia in half a pint of boiling water; and, adding a little
sugar or syrup, pour the mixture upon plates. The flies are extremely
partial to this enticing food, and it never fails to destroy them.
Camphor placed near any kind of provision will protect it from the
flies.

FLIP. To make a quart of flip, put the ale on the fire to warm, and
beat up three or four eggs, with four ounces of moist sugar. Add a
tea-spoonful of grated nutmeg or ginger, and a quartern of good old rum
or brandy. When the ale is nearly boiling, put it into one pitcher, and
the rum and eggs into another: turn it fro