persons who have experienced putrid and inflammatory
fevers, and cannot therefore be too carefully cleaned, carded, and
washed. It would also be proper frequently to fumigate them with vinegar
or muriatic gas. If these articles be infested with insects, dissolve a
pound and a half of alum, and as much cream of tartar, in three pints of
boiling water. Mix this solution in three gallons of cold water, immerse
the wool in it for several days, and then let it be washed and dried.
This operation will prevent the insects from attacking it in future.

MEAD. Dissolve thirty pounds of honey in thirteen gallons of water; boil
and skim it well. Then add of rosemary, thyme, bay leaves, and
sweetbriar, about a handful altogether. Boil the whole for an hour, and
put it into a tub, with two or three handfuls of ground malt. Stir it
till it is about blood warm, then strain it through a cloth, and return
it into the tub. Cut a toast, spread it over with good ale yeast, and
put it into the tub. When the liquor has sufficiently fermented, put it
into a cask. Take an ounce and a half each of cloves, mace, and nutmegs,
and an ounce of sliced ginger. Bruise the spices; tie them up in a
cloth, and hang it in the vessel, which must be stopped up close for
use.--Another way. Put four or five pounds of honey into a gallon of
boiling water, and let it continue to boil an hour and a half. Skim it
quite clean, put in the rinds of three or four lemons, and two ounces of
hops sewed up in a bag. When cold, put the liquor into a cask, stop it
up close, and let it stand eight or nine months.

MEASLES. In general, all that is needful in the treatment of this
complaint is to keep the body open by means of tamarinds, manna, or
other gentle laxatives; and to supply the patient frequently with barley
water, or linseed tea sweetened with honey. Bathe the feet in warm
water; and if there be a disposition to vomit, it ought to be promoted
by drinking a little camomile tea. If the disorder appear to strike
inward, the danger may be averted by applying blisters to the arms and
legs, and briskly rubbing the whole body with warm flannels.

MEAT. In all sorts of provisions, the best of the kind goes the
farthest; it cuts out with most advantage, and affords most nourishment.
Round of beef, fillet of veal, and leg of mutton, are joints that bear a
higher price; but as they have more solid meat, they deserve the
preference. Those joints however which are infer