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245&#93; MUM are brewed in sixty-three gfallons of water, which has been previ- ously boiled. The liquor is next poured into a hogshead ; and, as soon as it begins to ferment, three pounds of die inner rind or fir, one pound of the top: of fir and beech, tliree handful s of the blessed this- tle, sad one or two handfuls of the flowers of round-leaved sun- dew (Droscra rntiind'ifulia, Lj, are thrown into the vessel. To these are added a hanrlful of burnet, and a similar quantity of betony, mar- joram, avens, jjenny-royal, and wild thyme; two handfuls of flder- flowers, thirty ounces of bruised cardamom-seeds, and one ounce of bruised berberries. The whole masn is now suffered to work gently for a little time, when the hogsiiead is filled up, and ten new- laid eggs are thrown in, unbroken; after which the vessel is closed, and, at the end of two years, the liquor is fit for use. Such is the method said to be pra6Vised at Brunswick, where the best mum in Germany is brewed. The o!ily variation made Ly Eng- lish brewersj is the substitution of cardamom, ginger, and sassafras, for the inner rind of tlie fir-tree; and the addition of elecampane, madder, and red sandeis. To those whose palate requires the stimulus of viscid and spicy preparations, imim is doubtless a grateful beverage ; and a pint ot it, taken at night, may serve as a sudorific in recent catarrlis and rheumatic attacks. — The Germans drink it frequently, in consump- tive habits ; as an opinion prevails among them, that such liquor con- tributes to obesity, and increases the muscular energy. Mum pays on importation the gum of 10s. 9vd. per barrel of 32 MUM [245 gallons ; but is allowed a drawback of 7s. lOd. on exportation. — ^The home-made liquor is under the cog- nizance of the excise. MUMMY, in horticulture, sig- nifies a kind of wax employed by gardeners, in grafting and planting the roots of trees. It is prepared as follows : Take one pound of black pitch, and a quarter of a pound of turpentine, mix them in an earthen pot, and set the whole on fire in the opt-n air : the mix- ture should be alternately quench- ed and lighted, till all the nitrons and volatile parts be evaporated, when a little common wax is to be incorporated with the composi- tion, which is now fit for use. MUMPS, or Cifnavche paroti- d(Pa, a contagions disease, that chiefly afletts the lower classes, and is often epidemic— It is dis- tinguished by an external move- able swelling, that arises on one side of the neck, but more com- monly on both, and frequently at- tains a considerable size ; while the fauces appear red, and the pa- tient has a sensation of straitness. The powers of respiration and of deglutition are somewhat impeded, and the disease is mostly accompa- nied with a slight degree of in- flammatory fever. The tumor in- ci-eases for three or four days ; when it begins to subside, and, in a few days, totally disappears, to- gether with the fever. Next, it is remarkable, that the contents of the scrotum in males, and the breasts of females, become afl-e<5ted with large hard, and often piiinful swellings, which generally subside in a few days. Sometimes, how- ever, the tumor in the fauces is . suddenly suppressed, and not at- tended with the last menrioncd symptom.j In which case the fever 11 3 incieass