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Rh tion of goose bone and one of a peacock; a portion of the tail of a fish, and one of the head of a venomous snake. These, being duly compounded and mixed, form an excellent receipt for use in all cases where the venom has produced tetanus or lockjaw.

Another prescription is called a general sternutatory to be blown into the nose in cases of a venomous bite or other poisoned wounds. It comprises seventeen ingredients, as wood, bark, nutmeg, camphor, flowers, the bile of four kinds of venomous snakes and of a wild hog. This, it is said, may be used with much utility also by women who cannot lie by the fire after childbirth, and in eases of epilepsy and asthma.

Another recipe is a compound to be taken internally, being briefly as follows. The bile of two kinds of buffaloes, of two kinds of hogs, of a goat, of a sheep, of a fresh water alligator, of a large tortoise, of a salt, water alligator, of a sword fish, of a shark, and of thirty kinds of snakes — so much for the bilious part of it. Then there is to be added four kinds of stone, alum, and ratsbane; five kinds of iron, five kinds of bulbous roots, and borax; seven kinds of flowers and fruit; seventeen kinds of leaves; a little gum and resin; seven kinds of medicated water, etc., etc.; being in all one hundred and seventy-four different ingredients. These, being all intimately mixed, are to be divided into three doses. It is termed a large and excellent remedy for the bites of all kinds of venomous snakes.

Another is a snuff made of five kinds of lotus flowers, calculi taken from the livers of cattle, many kinds of animals' teeth, several kinds of roots, two kinds of ratsbane, being twenty-nine ingredients in all. When well mixed, rehearse over it some form of incantation thirty-