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Touching Drinks, the following description of the properties, &c., of buttermilk may prove acceptable and useful:

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Properties of Buttermilk.-Buttermilk is generally prepared by churning sour cream; but is also procured from milk that has become acid. When procured from the first, it is more rich, nutritious, and agreeable, than when made from the second. The acid which it contains is the lactic or acid of milk. Buttermilk is a very good alimentary liquid for a healthy person, although not so nutritious as sweetmilk; and is much used by the peasantry of Scotland and Ireland. On account of its acid properties, it is not well adapted for those who have delicate digestive organs; as it is liable to occasion flatulency, acescency, and sometimes diarrhoea. As a drink or diluent, for which purpose it is very frequently employed, the most healthy and robust only should use it; and even for them, if not previously done by the maker, it may advantageously be diluted with water. It has been recommended in fevers and other febrile diseases, on account of its cooling properties; but it is not well adapted for their treatment, as it often deranges, to a greater or less extent, the functions of the stomach and bowels. It may, however, be used as a safe and pleasant drink under ordinary circumstances, if modified by a mixture with an equal portion of boiling water. The boiling water coagulates the caseum or curd, which falls to the bottom, while the diluted whey swims above and may be decanted. A little oatmeal, beat up with the milk before the addition of the water, improves the flavour of this diluent."

We have no experience to alledge touching Beamish and Crawford's new malt liquor, on Professor Liebig's method of brewing. It certainly would be the very thing to "march" upon, if drowsiness, &c., are so conveniently put in the background as they state.

Sherbet. This beverage, so celebrated in Oriental song, is a decoction of, or preparation from, barley-meal and sugar, perfumed with extract of roses, orange flower, violets, or citron.

Sprains. If such should chance the reader at any time, the best treatment is, if practicable, to immerse or bathe the part in water as hot as can be possibly borne; then to change to cold water and spirit or vinegar, as a lotion, applied with cloths, and go often renewed as to keep the part cold; along with absolute rest as an indispensable means of the quickest recovery.

Gnat-bites, Stings of Wasp, Bee, or Ant, or Nettle, or any other Envenomed Wound. The pain may be soonest relieved by applying a drop of oil or hartshorn, or using Prussian blue. If any sting remain in, the readiest way to remove it is either to press around the wound with the barrel of a watch-key, so as to squeeze it out, or by rubbing constantly one way, as with the cuff of the coat sleeve.

Priest says that " he never met in his extensive practice with an insane naturalist.”—Curiosities of Medical Experience.

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A small pocket compass would be always serviceable, and in barren tracts of land indispensable.

A pair of French-grey spectacles, in which the focus of vision undergoes no change, will be found very grateful for weak eyes, without prejudice to the sight, when the white roads dazzle in the sunshine, as in the limestone districts of Derbyshire and Wales.

"Dear friends, youths and adults, and you in the declining vigour of manhood," writes a foreign and experienced walker, "here is recommended to you the only real and true remedy which nature has placed within your reach-that is, to avail yourself of your locomotives of so masterly a construction, so well adapted

by their complicated structure to move at your own will from place to place through the motion of your bodies in the open air, to make you your own preservers by warming and purifying your blood, and circulating it easily through your system, to give that vigour and freshness of thought which so much distinguished our forefathers. Walking for short distances and in towns is better than constant confinement; but what is such in comparison with a journey of hundreds of miles! The novelty of objects in the country around, the splendid sports of prismatical light, and the mysterious distances of a landscape, the different effects of waterreflection, the rich hues of the valleys and their refreshing green, with millions of different colours of the vegetable world:-all that works upon the sensible mind-whereby the heart vibrates with delight, and new life spreads over the languid system."

We have omitted to mention that fifteen pounds is the Swiss regulation weight for the knapsack.

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The blessing of Sound Sleep.-If, by attention to the foregoing hints," a person is so far usé with the nature and habit of prolonged application to letters, business, or dissipation, as to sleep badly; though, unless quite worn out, he cannot be long putting in practice the rules and regulations of salutary exercise, until refreshing repose has returned; yet lest he should, through ignorance or folly, so far continue to counteract the return of so benign and propitious a nocturnal visitor, let him take care that he secures all the requisite conditions

as means for its promotion. "These are of great importance to health, as the grand purposes of sleep are more fully effected, the sounder and more perfectly it is enjoyed. The greatest refreshment is derived from the most complete repose of the functions. For this purpose they should have been as generally exercised as possible,

during the day, both those of body and mind; this exercise, however, should not have proceeded so far as to produce a state of painful fatigue or exhaustion, as nothing is more sure to preclude refreshing sleep; the state of the circulation in the head should not have been excited by deep study, intense thought, coffee, or other stimulant, for some time previous to rest; late and copious suppers should be expressly avoided; the head should not be kept too warm by thick, or flannel, nightcaps; the feet and lower extremities should have been brought to a comfortable temperature, if necessary by artificial means, such as the warm foot-bath, or fleshbrush; lastly, and above all, the cares of the day should have been put off with the clothes-a thing which, like every other connexion with the subject of sleep, may be materially influenced by habit."-Davis.

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Diet and Regimen.-An extract from the life and diary of a celebrated Italian nobleman, will be of service to the reflecting mind. Up to the age of forty he was possessed of an infirm and weakened constitution, when, by obstinately persisting in an exact course of temperance, he recovered a perfect state of health; insomuch, that at fourscore he published his book, which has been translated into English under the title of 'Sure and certain Methods of attaining a long and healthy Life.' He lived to give a third or fourth edition of it, and, after having passed his hundredth year, died without pain or agony, like one who falls asleep." Speaking of the folly of excess at table, he says:"This error has so far seduced us, that it has prevailed upon us to renounce a frugal way of living, though taught us by nature, even from the beginning of the world, as being that which would lengthen our days; and has cast us into those excesses, which naturally tend to shorten the number of them. We become old,

before we have experienced the pleasure of being young; and the time which ought to be the summer of our lives, is frequently the beginning of their winter. We are sensible of the failure of our strength, and of our weakness and declension, even before we come to perfection. Sobriety, on the other hand, maintains us in the natural state wherein we ought to be: our youth is lasting, and our manhood attended with a vigour that does not begin to decay for several years. A whole century must pass away, before wrinkles can be formed on the face, or gray hairs grow on the head. This is so true, that when men gave themselves not up to voluptuousness, they were more strong and lively at fourscore than we are at present at forty."—Lewis Cornaro, p. 5.

"There is no question to be made, but that a regular life puts at distance the sad hour of death; since it is able to keep the humours in an exact temperature: whereas, on the contrary, gluttony and drunkenness disturbs, heats, and puts them into a ferment; which is the origin of catarrhs, fevers, and almost all the accidents which hurry us to our graves."-Idem, p. 119.

"Since no man, therefore, can have a better physician than himself, nor a more sovereign antidote than a regimen, every one ought to follow my example; that is, to study his own constitution, and to regulate his life agreeable to the rules of right reason."- Idem, p. 31.

Bathing. This salutary and agreeable recreation cannot be qnite passed over as a part of hygienic discipline here, seeing it is so often resorted to by pedestrians. for the sake of the cooling luxury it presents to the tourist under its most inviting aspects-when he is uncomfortable from dust and perspiration, and where the time, the spot (of some pleasing river-bank on his path), the facilities of sequestered and friendly shade, &c., combine to invite him to the Roman exercise.

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