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330&#93; 35°] FOX account of its softness and warmth, is ir: j irts of Europe em- ployed for making muffs, and lin- i. The fur of the black in the North, is some- ...- excessive price of 200 guineas. r ous methods are practised for c i ;ig these predatory animals : they are hunted with dogs ; iron traps are frequent!) at ilv- also occa- ked to expel them, so fhat they may the more readily fall snares laid for their de- struction. The most common n of taking foxes, is by means of gins : these being baited, and a train made by drawing raw flesh u ual paths, or haun the rap, he is frequently decoyed. — We conceive, however, that the most easy method of redoing him ii iiy, would be an imitation of that practised in the immense ■woods of Poland, for catduug y consists -ing circular holes of suffi- cient depth, depositing fetid car- ta ihem as an allurement, and covering them with b moss, provide^ with a trap-dpor level with the ground. In this manner, all the foxes in the United mo _ hi he exterminated in one season, and much injury pre- 1, which i-, ( < _ i ar suffer- ed by the husl hii fly for the rpetuating a gratui* tous I : 1' -,..„■ Tn ->'ll, Digitalis purpurea, L. an jndl. ■ ad&ws, on huh ( -banks, and ravi )l_v, . I ' very dn - the rooU decay in the winkr, FOX and the plant consequi hs$.i It abounds in the Midland, but is rarely seen in tin counties, and produces purple flowers, which blow in the months of June and July. The. leavcs-of the. fox-glove have a bitter nauseous taste, but do r> ss any peculiar smell: I have long been used with consick ar- able advantage, in the preparation el an ointnn nt for sores aud scro- phulous tumors. If (a" en inter- nally, this plant is a violent purga- ind emetic : — in the country, ion of it, with the polypody of the oak, is frequently given in
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An infusion of two drams of the leaf, in a pint of water, given in of half aq ounce, till it b to operate, is recommended i.. dropsy, especially that of the breast; in which disorder it has proved of the greatest utility: the plentiful use of diluents is or 1 ing its It has likewise been in .substance, at bed-time, in doses of one, two, or three grain*; of the leaves pulverized ; and operates as a ery pew erful diuretic, without producing any other citation. Sometimes, ho> dose excites severe arid unexp vomiting ; it has also the r< i
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slower j frequently occasions disi ng giddiness, and adects the of vision. Tin, within a few • • ploy? ed in puln, tionSj and other disorders, where the lrc- quency of the pulse requires to be (1, s ilh a u » to repress the p el the arterial i) s- t( in, and . hdis- 's and thous b. we <'> ther any thin- like rnedi< iu itU)US