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Rh be, to keep both the head and feet warm and dry. In ordinary cases, Dr. is of opinion, that the patient will be relieved, by holding the painful side over the steam of warm water, and afterwards putting into the ear a piece of camphor wrapped in cotton, which has been previously moistened with a few drops of laudanum, or vitriolic æther.—Electricity may also be employed, in some instances, with great success.

Should the pain, however, be extremely acute, and accompanied with throbbing, and other inflammatory symptoms, it will be advisable to resort to blood-letting, and to apply blisters behind the ear, or to the neck. If an abscess be apprehended, warm poultices should be frequently laid on the part affected, before they become cold; and when such abscess breaks, milk and water, or chamomile tea with the tincture of myrrh, must be repeatedly injected by means of a syringe.  EAR-WIG.—The following method of extirpating these mischievous insects, is recommended by Mr., who has successfully practised it for several years. Let old bean-stalks be cut into tubes, about nine inches long; then be tied up in small bundles, either with pack-thread, or the pliant twigs of young willows; and be suspended on nails against the wall, in the vicinity of trees. Early in the following morning, a board about 18 inches square should be procured, and a small wooden trowel: the bundles of such bean-stalks are now to be taken down separately, stricken against the board, and the ear-wigs be destroyed with the trowel, as they fall out of the stslks.—If this method be repeated daily, or every second morning, the increase of the insects will speedily be checked.

The propagation of these vermin may be still more certainly prevented, by immersing the shreds taken from trees that have been unnailed in autumn, in boiled soap-suds, for three or four days previously to using them again: in this simple manner, the eggs of ear-wigs, as well as those of other insects, will be effectually exterminated.  EGG.—In February 1791, a patent was granted to Mr., for his composition, which is calculated to preserve eggs.—He directs one Winchester bushel of quick-lime, 32 oz. of salt, and 8 oz. of cream of tartar, to be incorporated with such a quantity of water as will reduce the mixture to that consistence, in which an egg will float with its top above the surface.—In this liquor the eggs are to be kept; and the patentee asserts, that they may thus be preserved perfectly sound, for the space of two years at the least.  ELM-TREES are frequently subject to a kind of ulcers; which, if not timely attended to, eventually destroy them. Such as are planted in marshy grounds, or in the vicinity of rivers, are chiefly liable to this distemper: the ulcer generally appears on the side exposed to the south, and at a little distance from the root; though it sometimes occurs five or six feet above the surface.

The cause of this disease was, by, supposed to be a superabundance of sap; which conjecture has lately been corroborated by the experience of M. . In order to cure the trees thus attacked, the latter pierced the