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21) A Receipt to cure the STONE and GRAVEL, communicated in a letter to the Right Rev[eren]d Thomas Ld. Bishop of Kildare, by Tho[ma]s Butler, Esq[ui]r[e]., of Warminster in Wilts. [[left margin]] To cure the Gravel or Stone. See p. 33. [[/margin]] TAKE a daucus or wild carrot (of which there are plenty in all parts of England, well known by botanists, gardiners, &c.) and make it into tea, sweetening it with Lisbon sugar, and drink about two ordinary teapots full in a day, each pot containing a full half pint, the one for breakfast and the other for [[strikethrough]] tea [[/strikethrough]] supper, eating with it as the other tea. By this method Mr. Butler asserts, that in three days times the pain began to grow weak and die away, in five days it quite left him, and he was restored to perfect health. Cambridge Chronicle for May 31st, 1766. Dr. [[underline]] Hasselquist's [[/underline]] prescriptions are For an AGUE. [[left margin]] Cures of the Ague. [[/margin]] Take an egg, roast it in ashes till it is quite hard, sprinkle it all over with pepper, & eat it at once For the Cholic. [[left margin]] Cholic or Stone. [[/margin]] [[right margin]] All Erect Declining Dials may be reducted to an Horizontal one in some other place. [[/margin]] Take the snuff of a candle, and [[underline]] German [[/underline]] soap, mix them well and make pills, it is a sure remedy in the [[underline]] Levant [[/underline]]. For the wind Cholic. [[left margin]] Wind Cholic. [[/margin]] Take three or four pills about as big as a pea, made of common pitch when the fit comes on. For the Asthma. [[left margin]] Asthma. [[/margin]] Take a sea-gull, chop it in pieces, boil it in water to a strong broth, and drink it at once. Barrenness. [[left margin]] Barrenness. [[/margin]] The man and woman must drink each a tea cup full of clove water going to bed. The Stone in the [[underline]] Bladder [[/underline]], [[underline]] Kidney [[/underline]] the [[underline]] Trophi [[/underline]] &c, will not be dissolved, or in the least corroded by any of these Acids, [[underline]] Vinegar, Petrified Water, Spirit of Vitriol, Aqua-Fortis, Spirit of Salt [[/underline]]; though [[underline]] Spirit [[/underline]] of [[underline]] Nitre [[/underline]] is a general [[underline]] Menstruum [[/underline]] & will dissolve it. Philos. Trans. No. 182. Vol III. p. 177. l.2-12 of Lowthrop's Abridgment. "This yields to none (menstruum) but the most potent [[underline]] Acids [[/underline]], and particularly to [[underline]] Nitrous [[/underline]] ones alone." ibid. p. 180. l. 37&38. Apply Relaxing, and Strong [[strikethrough]] Emolliment [[/strikethrough]] Emollient Remedies to Dilate the [[underline]] urinary passage [[/underline]] for the emission of it. Ibid. p. 683. l. 19-21. Ibid. Vol. V. p. 284. l. 21. Considerations for the cure.