ence
from animal food and stimulating liquors. For a bruise in the eye,
occasioned by any accident, the best remedy is a rotten apple, and some
conserve of roses. Fold them in a piece of thin cambric, apply it to the
part affected, and it will take out the bruise.

INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS. This is a complaint that requires great
care. If the belly be swelled, and painful to the touch, apply flannels
to it, dipped in hot water and wrung out, or use a warm bath. A blister
should be employed as soon as possible, and mild emollient injections of
gruel or barley water, till stools be obtained. The patient should be
placed between blankets, and supplied with light gruel; and when the
violence of the disorder is somewhat abated, the pain may be removed by
opiate clysters. A common bread and milk poultice, applied as warm as
possible to the part affected, has also been attended with great
success: but as this disorder is very dangerous, it would be proper to
call in medical assistance without delay.

INK. To make an excellent writing ink, take a pound of the best Aleppo
galls, half a pound of copperas, a quarter of a pound of gum arabic, and
a quarter of a pound of white sugar candy. Bruise the galls and beat the
other ingredients fine, and infuse them together in three quarts of
rain water. Let the mixture stand by the fire three or four days, and
then boil it gently over a slow fire; or if infused in cold water, and
afterwards well strained, it will nearly answer the same purpose. Care
must be taken to obtain good materials, and to mix them in due
proportion. To preserve the ink from mouldiness, it should be put into a
large glass bottle with a ground stopper, and frequently shaked; but if
a crust be formed, it should be carefully taken out, and not mixed with
the ink. A little more gum and sugar candy may be added, to render the
ink more black and glossy; but too much will make it sticky, and unfit
for use.--Another method is to bruise a pound of good galls, black and
heavy, and put them into a stone jar. Then pour on a gallon of rain
water, nearly of a boiling heat, and let it stand by the fire about a
fortnight. Afterwards add four ounces of green copperas or sulphate of
iron, four ounces of logwood shavings, one ounce of alum, one of sugar
candy, and four of gum arabic. Let the whole remain about two days
longer in a moderate heat, stir the ingredients together once or twice a
day, and keep the jar slightly covere