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Rh or any other drug; as they can be of service only in particular cases. But the greatest advantage in this complaint will generally be derived from the application of clysters, which should consist of decoctions of the bruised ipecacuanha-root, namely, one dram boiled in a pint of water, till the third part be evaporated; or alternately, three quarters of a pint of fresh milk, in which one ounce of mutton-suet has been dissolved, should be administered luke-warm, and both repeated every six or eight hours.

The regimen in dysentery is of the utmost consequence. Animal food, whether solid or liquid, must be abstained from, till the violent symptoms have subsided, when chicken-broth may be allowed. The use of the salep-root in the form of jelly, and the white of an egg and starch, taken in small portions, will afford sufficient nourishment, while they tend to restore the natural and abraded mucus of the intestines. In the decline of the disease, a solution of fresh mutton-suet in hot cow's-milk, to which a little starch and sugar may be added, after the fat has been removed from the top, affords both a wholesome and palatable dish. The copious use of ripe grapes has, in this disease, often procured very great relief; and, though the unlimited and promiscuous eating of fruit, in every stage and species of dysentery, may not always be proper, yet, in those cases where Nature points out such indulgence, by the ardent desire of the patient, or where the blood appears to be in a broken, dissolved state, and a putrid acrimony infests the bowels, there is no danger to be apprehended from a free allowance of ripe, sub-acid fruit, which will, in general, be attended with happy effects.  

 EAGLE, the, or Falco chrysaëtos, L. a bird of prey, which chiefly inhabits the northern parts of Britain: it weighs about twelve pounds, and is nearly three feet long; but, with its expanded wings, measures above seven feet.

These birds possess the senses of sight and smell in an uncommonly acute degree: they are also remarkable for their longevity, and their long abstinence from food. There are instances of eagles having attained an age exceeding one hundred years, and of one which existed twenty-one days without sustenance.

Eagles are very destructive to lambs, kids, fawns, and all kinds of game, especially during the breeding season, when they carry vast quantities of prey to their young. These pernicious birds are particularly mischievous in the Orkney Islands, where a law is in force, which entitles every person that kills an eagle, to a hen out of every house in the parish where such bird was killed.  EAR, the organ of hearing, or that part through which animals receive the impression of sounds.

This organ is extremely tender, and subject to a variety of 