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 Four gallons of rich sweet apple juice will yield one of sirup; by boiling it longer and reducing the quantity, it may be made of any consistence required.

A LADY about 40 years of age, who lived at the corner of one of the streets in Paris, was struck early in the month with apoplexy. M. Valette, the physician was called in, and he restored her instantly to life, by bleeding in a jugular vein, and by stimulating the blood to flow abundantly by the application of a common needle to the exterior part of the vein and the adjoining nerves. It is thus shewn that the mechanical stimulant is able to revive nervous sensibility, and by creating a kind of peristaltic motion to deduce from the arteries a great quantity of blood.—There is also another instance of the efficacy of this application in the case of a M. Chatelin, a linen merchant, who had also been restored to existence under similar circumstances. It is trusted that this discovery will be generally beneficial.

MILK one gill, Camphorated spirits one drachm, mix and use for an injection. Or

A drachm or two of Camphor may be dissolved in half a pint of milk, and used in the same way. Either of these will seldom fail.

TO cultivate Asparagus in the best manner, open a trench, three feet wide and twelve inches deep. If it be close to the south side of a garden wall it will be up the earlier in the spring. Fill the trench half full of good dung; make it level, and sprinkle a little rich