that thofe of the niceft tafte and finell could not diftinguish the Doctor's broth from mine. I have therefore the greatest reafon to conclude, that this medicine is a folution of alkaline fixed falts joined with quick-lime, and therefore in reality no other than foap-lye. I do not wifh, however, to reft my opinion on this fingle proof, it being to eafy for the Doctor to elude its force, by giving, as he formerly has done, what tafte he pleafes to the broth; I fhall therefore corroborate it, by fuch other evidences as I prefume will eftablish it beyond the danger of confutation. There is one property peculiar and effential to alkaline falts and fubftances, which no art can difguife; this is their changing the fine blue colour of fyrop of violets to a green, as acids change it to a red; and these effects are fo conftant, that thereby a certain rule is eftablished, by which we can judge whether any compofition is of an alkaline or acid nature. Knowing therefore that, if Doctor Chituck's broth was medicated with an alkaline fubftance, it would make fyrup of violets green, I made the experiment, and it immediately fhewed the alkaline property; I repeated it with my broth, and an exact fimilarity of colour was the illue. I proceeded next to try if the efficacy of my broh, as a menftruumi to diffolve the fione, was likewife fimilar to that of the Doctor's. I therefore took two equal fragments of the fame calculus, and put one of them into a fmall quantity of my broth, and the other into an equal quantity of his, and placed them both in an equal degree of heat; the confequence was, that both were very quickly diffolved, and both in the fame fpace of time. Having by thefe experiments evidently demonftrated, not only that my broth is fimilar to the Doctor's in every fentible quality, but likewife that its efficacy is equal as a menftruum for diffolving a calculus immerfed in it; and, as this exact refemblance was effced by medicating it with foap-lye, the inference then will confequent ly be, that the Doctor's broth is medicated with the fame, it being extremely improbable that different fublances fhould, in fo many refpects, produce like effects. As foap-lye is not incumbered with oil, to retard its operation, I think that alone fufficient not only to eftablish it as a more powerful diffolving menftruum, but likewife to recommend it as a more eiicacious method; and, indeed, on the fame account it may with propriety be eficemed a lithontriptie jolutis principiis, a phrafe made ule of by the learned Dr. Hexham, when preferring the antimonial wine to all the other preparations of antimony, But this is not the only advantage poffeffed by foap-lye in preference to foap, and indeed to any of the alkaline tribe hitherto known. A much lefs quantity will be ficient, which, therefore, n be diluted with a proper quantity of any bland vehicle, to prevent the painful irritation in (wallowing it; and thus the naufeous and difagreeable tafle, fo common to fuch fubftances, will be les perceptible; whereas foap, either in a liquid or folid form, must be taken in fuch large quantities before ary ben-fit can be expeċied from it, as will in time, even to the moft refolute, prove very di1 gufiful, if not otherwife noxious; for oil, by fuch long boiling as is heceffary to make it coalefce with the other ingredients, and convert it into foap, muft become very rancid and acrid, and therefore on many accounts extremely hurtful. The medicine, which Dr. Chittick adminifters, he does not deny that he inherits from his brother, who used it before him; to his brother it was given, according to an account fent me from Ireland by General Dunbar. I have received the genuine receipt in thefe words: "Take one tea-fpoonful of the ftrongeft foap-lye, mixed in two table fpoonsful of fweet milk, an hour before breakfast, and at going to bed. Before you take the medicine, take a fup of pure milk, and, immediately after you have swallowed the medicine, take another.-If you find this agree with you for two or three days, you may add half as much more to the dofe." This agrees exactly with fuch information as had been given me before, by another hand. Having now, concludes our author, brought this valuable fecret to light, and put into the hands of the low as well as of the high, that medicine which I believe to be of the greateft efficacy against the moft painful of all difeaies, I fit down with the pleafing reflection, that I have contributed fomething to human happiness. A letter to the Bishop of Kildare, from Thomas Butler, Efq; concerning a remedy for the fione and grapel. THE benefit I received from the been fo great, that I thought it my duty to mankind to advertise its virtues, and the relief I received from it, in the Salisbury Journal, about three years ago; which was crowned with fuch high fatisfaction, that I received intelligence, that it had done great cures on feveral people who took it, purely on the recommendation of my advertile ment. I had laboured under that painful diforder, the ftone in the kidney, at least forty-fix years, when about four years fince, or fomething more, it became to painful, that I was under an abfolute neceffity of quitting my annual journies into Hants, and feek for eafe by any means I could find it; but all in vain; it grew upon me fo, that I could not fit at table to eat my meat but in the greatest pain; and finding, by experience, I could have more eafe in a recumbent pofture, I was obliged to lie down wherever I came, either at home or abroad; and in that pofture I converfed with my friends, and in that pofition eat my dinner daily; and, in fhort, I was fill followed by fuch continual pain, that I expected I had but a fhort time to live. I had applied to phyficians, apothecaries, quacks, and old women, and, conformable to directions, I made ufe of Mrs. Stephens's medicine, and, naufeous as it was, I took about fourlcore draughts of it, together with a full dofe of the ill-tafted powder, that' is a part of the receipt; but all in vain: I could find no relief. In this miferable condition, I recollected I had an Herbal, in which were prefcribed remedies for many diforders: I providentially looked into it, and found the Wild Car Boyle. I immediately (it being M 2 the the Ift or 2d of Auguft) fent a perfon into the fields to get me the Wild Carrot; which was accordingly done: I made it into a tea, fweetening it with Lisbon fugar, and drank about two ordinary teapots full in a day, each pot containing a full half-pint, the one for breakfast, the other for fupper, eating with it as with other tea; and in three days time the pain began to grow weak and die away, and in five days it quite left me, my fpirits revived, and I was reftored (I blefs God) to perfect ease. I continued drinking this tea till the 17th of December following, and then idly neglecting it, the diforder returned; I had a fhort fit, which held me about fix hours I had again recourfe to my Wild Carrot, and in a few days got the better of it; fince which I have enjoyed great eale. I cannot fay that I never felt pain in the : refrain from; I drink about two of "SIR, THOMAS BUTLER. Kildare. ON reading Mr. Butler's letter, I, who had been afflicted with the flone, betook myself to the drinking the Wild Carrot tea; this was in the month of October last ; and fince I have drank it, I have not felt any fevere pain. I have fometimes, indeed, uneafy feelings: but thofe are the feelings rather of weight than of pain, and generally terminate in my parting with a great deal of loofe gravel, much more than I was formerly ufed to part with. kidneys but this I can aver for A letter from the Rev. the Dean of truth, that it is never enough to make me cry Oh! and that I think I never enjoyed better health more than I have done for thele four last years. This is the time of the year (Auguft) when I got it. I will only fay, (though I know not how to have done with this fubject, where almoft a miracle has been wrought in my favour,) that it is to be gathered in Auguft, and dried well in fome room in the fhade, and then put afide in a close bin for ufe. You are only to ufe the heads or feeds of it. I take fix or feven heads, and put them into the tea-pot, and then put boiling water upon them, and, after it has ftood as other common tea, drink it, generally dividing it into two draughts. I forbear all falt meats, (at least ought to do fo,) and ftrong beer I rigidly Whether this medicine tends to the diffolution of a ftone already concreted, or ferves only to prevent a further concre tion, I cannot fay. It is no fmall happiness, that whatever its manner of operation may be, I have AKE up trees by the roots in the fpring, just as they put forth their buds, preferving fome of their own earth about the nary clean fand three pounds; mix all together, and obferve this proportion in other quantities; then in dry weather take fruit of any fort that is not fully ripe, each with its ftalk; put them one by one into an open glass, till it be full, and then cover it with an oily cloth close tied down; then in a dry cellar put each of thefe glaffes, four fingers under ground, and fo as that quite round each glass, and above and below, there remain two fingers thick of the faid mixture. Flowers alfo may be used in the fame manner. An excellent receipt for preventing the flies damaging the feeding leaves of turnips, cabbages, favoys, cole, weld, flax, and many other vegetables, for less than fixpence an acre charge. ounce of flour of roots; fet them ftanding agright Mbrimftone with three pounds in a cellar until Michaelmas; then put them into vefiels with an addition of more earth, and bring them into a ftove, taking care to moiften the earth every morning with rainwater, in a quart of which you muft diffolve the bignefs of a walnut of fal-ammoniac; and about Lent fruit will appear. As to flowers, take good earthen pots, and therein fow your feed at Michaelmas, watering in the fame manner with the like water, and by Christmas you will have flowers, fuch as tulips, lilies, &c. This and the other may be done in a good warm kitchen; and fuch days as the fun fhines, you may fet them forth for a few hours. Take falt-petre one pound, bole-ammoniac two pounds, ordi of turnip-feed daily, for three days fucceffively, in an earthen glazed pot, and keep it covered clofe, ftirring all together well at each fresh addition, that the feed may be the more tainted by the fulphur; then fow it as ufual on one acre of ground, and let the weather come wet or dry, it will keep the fly off till the third or fourth feeding leaf is formed, and by this time they will all be fomewhat bitterish, and confequently very much out of danger of this little black flying infect, which, in fummer-time of the year, may be fometimes feen in fwarms on the wing near the ground, fearching for and fettling on fresh bites, till they ruin thousands of acres in M 3 foma fome feafons, by lving and refiding under the little clods of earth all night, and during the day following. To fatten horfes in a little time. A expeditious method of fattening horfes is one of the greateft arts our dealers have, and indeed one of the greatest niceties of the whole management of that creature. Many methods have been preferibed, but the following feems moft to be depended on; take elecampane, cumin-feed, tamarifk, and annifeed, of each two ounces ; common groundfel, one handful. Boil all thefe very well, with two handsful of garlic fcraped and cleanted, in a gallon of good ale; train the liquor well off, and give the horfe a quart of it every morning made hot; keep him warm after it. After he has taken this for four or five mornings, he may be turned out to grafs, or kept in the house, as the feafon will permit. But whenever provender is given him, a quantity of a powder is to be prepared of equal parts of cumin-feeds and clecampane, and give him half an ounce of it every time, fprinkling it in by degrees, as he eats, that he may not naufeate the whole. If this method does not fucceed in a fhort time, then take two fpoonsful of diapente; brew it in a pint of fweet wine, and give it the horse for three mornings. This will take off any inward ficknefs, and make the other things take effect. After this, feed him with good provender three times a-day, that is, after his watering in the morning, after his watering in the evening, and at nine o'clock at night. If he does not eat the provender well, and freely, it must be changed for fome other kind.. If all this does not fucceed, let the horse be blooded; and then take half a bufhel of coarfe barleymeal, and put it into a pail fall of water, and fir the whole together very well; then let it fettle by ftanding. Pour off the clear liquor into another veffel, and let him drink it for his common drink, and eat the remainder which falls to the bottom of the pail. If he refufe to eat this alone, there may be fome bran mixed among it. This fhuold be given' him three times a-day, morning, noon, and night. If he does not rightly take to the meal with the bran, fome oats must be mixed with it, and this will readily bring him to feed on it. But which ever way is ufed, they must be by degrees diminished in quantity, till at length he is brought to eat the meal alone; for that is the thing that muft fatten him up, Care must be taken that the barley is ground fresh every day, as it is ufed, for it quickly grows four; and, when this has once been the cafe with one parcel, no art will ever bring the horfe to touch any of it afterwards. Scarce any horfe but will be well fattened by keeping him to this diet about 20 days. Barley ground in Barley ground in this manner cools and purges the creature; but the greateft efficacy, as to the fattening him, lies in the water, which, by this management, takes up all the rich part of the barley into itfelf. When the horfe grows lufty on this diet, it must be taken from him by degrees, giving him at first oats once, and barleymeal twice a day; and then oats |