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                 THE  USE
                       OF

BRANDY    AND    SALT,

                      AS

              A  REMEDY

                   FOR VARIOUS

 INTERNAL AS WELL  AS EXTERNAL DISEASES,

       INFLAMMATION AND LOCAL INJURIES;

                   CONTAINING

  AMPLE  DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING AND APPLYING  IT.

       KUustratctr antr Urplafnetr iijj  t&e Hfscoberer,

             WILLIAM  LEE, Esq.
                   BOSTON:
C C. P. MOODY, PRINTER, OLD DICKINSON OFFICE, 52 WASHINGTON ST.
                    1851. 
        860

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PREFACE.
  By the publication  of the following  little work, to  give
increased publicity to the remedy of Brandy and Salt, I am
actuated by a desire to benefit my fellow men, and to do what
in my power lies to alleviate the distresses of suffering human-
ity.  Having myself experienced the beneficial effects of this
simple but powerful remedy, and having seen it in numerous
cases prove an antidote to many of the common ills  of life, I
am most anxious that the good thus effected  should  be  gen-
erally known, that the afflicted may have the opportunity of
reaping such  advantages  from it as their respective circum-
stances may require, believing it, as I  do, to  be  the  greatest
discovery in  medicine in  modern times;  and its  adoption, if
not attended by any efficacious results, will yet be accompanied
by no deleterious consequences.
  This pamphlet, though simple, like the  remedy of which it
treats, would  be as a family book of reference in cases of sick-
ness, in my opinion,  one  of the  most useful ever laid upon a
table, and I write from the experience of  ten  years of the use
of this remedy.
    liiT Be sure not to shake the salt up when you use the remedy,
as it must be quite clear, and never take it without being diluted in hot
water, except, for Worms and Paralytic attacks. 
THE  USE OF
BRANDY    AND    SALT,
                              AS
                  A   REMEDY
   FOR VARIOUS INTERNAL AS WELL  AS EXTERNAL
                       DISEASES, &c.
              USE  FRENCH BRANDY ONLY.
  The  inquiry has  often been made of me whether  gin, rum, or
spirits of wine, will not do as well as brandy, or if British brandy is
not as good as French brandy.   With regard to the first three, gin,
rum, or spirits of wine, I should recommend all siu'h to make the ex-
periment for themselves ; for myself, I have always been content with
French brandy.  But with regard  to whether British brandy is as
good as French brandy, I will relate an occurrence which took place
in a neighboring town in this  county :—Two gentlemen, from  the
perusal  of one of my letters in the Intelligencer, agreed to  make
use of the remedy,  for  the same complaint; I believe, the rheuma-
tism.  They mixed and used it according to the prescription.  After
a few days they compared notes, when it was found that one of them
was almost cured, whilst the other was not at all better.  They then
spoke of the manner they had mixed and used it, of  the  kind of
brandy, &c, when it  came out that the one cured used French bran-
dy, and the other British brandy.   If they had  both used British
brandy, they would have come  to the same conclusion  that one of
the faculty of Leeds came to when my first letter was published, that
what I stated was all lies, but upon much better grounds, though equally
untrue.  When my first communication was published in the Leeds
Intelligencer, it was so pronounced to be ;  but as I suppose, this gen-
tleman spoke more by his wishes and his interest, than actual knowl-
edge, though I believe that he is clever in his profession, and a worthy
man, I think he ought to be excused ; only it shows the necessity of
men being careful before they accuse another of publishing lies, lest,
in so doing, they speak untruths themselves. And this' brings  to my
mind a suspicion which is entertained by some as it was spoken of in
a society where I was, that as I  live in France, and possess an  estate
there, I recommend it from interested motives, having, no  doubt, a
manufactory of brandy upon the estate.   This idea  may have  great
weight with many, for there are large numbers in society, who, see- 
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 ing that most things turn upon self-interest, think that it is not possi-
 ble that any one should act frorn any thing but  interested  motives.
 But to all such I would say, neither my estate, nor the village attach-
 ed to it, nor the country near it, has, ever since I possessed it, though
 it is now fifteen years, in all that time produced as much brandy as
 I give away every week  upon an average, one week with another;
 indeed, it has never  produced, I believe, one table-spoonful; there-
 fore, the suspicion that I have ever had any interested motives is er-
 roneous and unjust.
   In conclusion, I beg leave to say, that as a remedy it is unrivalled;
 whether it is used  internally or externally, it is equally efficacious,
 and for both, or either, there cannot be found its equal; therefore, aa
 a remedy, it is almost perfect.   As a discovery I cannot but think  it
 stands unrivalled also, at least in medicine, as there is nothing made
 public which is equal to it as  an universal  specific.  It cures  com-
 plaints which have hitherto been deemed incurable.  This has  been
 thought to be an objection to it; but let these objectors  apply it ac-
 cording to the rules laid down in this treatise, and I think they will
 blush at their want of caution.  As a remedy, which is easily made,
 I do think it cannot  be exceeded;  all  that is wanted  is to  apply a
 sufficient quantity of  salt  to the brandy, shake it together, and it is
 ready for use as soon  as it is clear.

          METHOD OF MAKING  THE REMEDY
   Half fill a bottle with brandy, and add to it  one third  the quantity
 of salt; cork and  shake  well  together.   When mixed, let the salt
 settle to the bottom, and be particularly careful to use it when clear,
 the clearer the better. Many persons have made a great mistake in
 shaking it up just before  it is  used.  The  efficacy is  not near so
 great, and to open sores the application is much more painful, from the
 particles of salt which  are not dissolved in the brandy ; but the salt and
 brandy should remain together, and when all the brandy is used off
 more may be added to the salt.  Though it is ready for use in twen-
 ty minutes after it is put together, it is good at any time after ; and
 it is a perfect medicine, as it has the rare quality of being  greatly
 efficacious in either internal or external application.

    GENERAL RULES TO BE OBSERVED  IN  USING
                       THE REMEDY.
  Begin with taking one table-spoonful, mixed in a little hot water
 or tea, an hour before breakfast, and gradually increase, if the stom-
ach will bear it, to two.  The remedy must always be taken in water
as hot as the patient can drink it, except in cases of worms and par-
alytic attacks, and in those two cases to be taken pure.
  For  children from two to ten years of age, one half of the quantity
here prescribed  will  be  sufficient, and increase it according to the
 age above those years. 
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  In all cases where the head'is directed to be rubbed, it  should be
done so all over, from the back to the front, and the hair made very
wet, with the remedy pure; the more hair the better.  The  opera-
tion should be continued for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour be-
fore going to bed, and the head should then be covered with the cap
only.   For pain in any part of the body except the  head,-bind the
parts affected with linen saturated with the remedy.
  Abstinence from Intoxicating Drinks.—To insure success it is ab-
solutely necessary that, during its application, whether internally or
externally, the patient should strictly abstain from all stimulating and
exciting drinks, except the Brandy and Salt.  This is a rule which
can never be departed from with safety.
   Opening Medicine.—The  bowels  must  be kept open at all times,
but especially when the  patient is using the remedy.   The kind  of
opening medicine which I recommend and  use myself, as I find it an-
swers best, is the following:—Four ounces of Epsom  salts, dissolved
in half a pint of hot water; then add half a pint of  cold  water and
one tea-spoonful of the  essence of peppermint.  A wine-glassful  to
be taken  when  required, on going to bed.  It is  better to add half
a table-spoonful of brandy to each dose.
  1 subjoin the following as the line of conduct I followed  in my own
case, and  which  I extract from  my former pamphlet, published  in
October, 1839, as it may be cf considerable service.
  I found it very efficacious to wet a piece  of fine linen with the rem-
edy, and  bind  it on my leg,  which I  kept moist by pouring a few
drops on the linen ; the more frequently I  did so the better.  This I
strictly attended to for  about three weeks, and though my leg had
been very bad for many months, and bid defiance to the  best  medi-
cal aid I could procure, which caused me to give up all hopes of recove-
ry, to my great surprise the inflammation was entirely gone, the wounds
healed, and  the  leg  well  in  a month.  This I publish for the bene-
fit and encouragement of the afflicted, as   the cure  it wrought upon
me was so astonishing to myself and others ; had  not this been the
case, this pamphlet would never have been re-published by me; but
with great gratitude to the Giver of all good, and thanks  to the dis-
coverer, I have complied with his request  in making it as public  as
possible, both by newspaper and pamphlet.  I am glad to hear and
to see that this remedy is doing  good to numbers, for both internal
and external complaints.  Any person  receiving  benefit from the
application,  would do well to let me know, as it may stimulate others;
but let no one expect to be cured without perseverance.
        DISEASES  AND MODE OF  TREATMENT.
  Dizziness in the Head is cured by washing the  crown of the
head with the remedy pure.   It ought to be rubbed for half an hour,
even when the dizzine > is removed.   Sometimes it feels cured dur-
ing the operation; sometimes in an hour after; and even  it has not 
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been removed until after retiring to "bed.  There are instances of
this complaint returning several times, but it is easily subdued by the
manner of applying this remedy.
  Determination of Blood to the Head, which, by the reg-
ular mode of practice is sought to be cured by bleeding with leeches
about th*e temples, though it does not  always cure, generally brings
the patient to the borders of the grave.  This complaint is  greatly
abated,  and very often cured, by  rubbing the crown of the  head
with the remedy.   Sometimes it is removed very soon, and generally
by one operation; if not, it may be repeated  once, in which  case it
is necessary that the afflicted should take two  table-spoonsful of the
remedy, diluted with six or eight table-spoonsful of hot water.  The
rubbing of the head is always the best on retiring to bed, and the dose
should be taken in  the morning, about an hour before breakfast, and
repeated several times.
  Headaches are removed by rubbing the head with the remedy,
in the same manner as for Determination of Blood to the Head.  I
have applied it in hundreds of instances, and always with success;
but in case the Headache proves obstinate, it  should be repeated,
and two table-spoonsful, with six or eight table-spoonsful of hot wat-
er, should be taken ; but it is generally cured by rubbing  once.
  Inflammation  in  the Eyes.—Before  I  speak  of the manner
in which it is cured, I would say, that this remedy, if it only cured this
complaint in the manner it does, is beyond all price.  There is no occa-
sion for dark rooms; no occasion to desist from the ordinary occupations
of the afflicted ; no  cauterizing  of  the eye, which very often causes
the  afflicted to lose their sight; no distress in  families.  It is  cured
by the patient wetting the corner of his handkerchief five  or six
times each day, with the remedy, pure, when he is at his work, when
he is walking,  when he is riding, when he is buying or  selling his
merchandize ;  and rubbing it each time well into his eye.  The pain is
very trifling, and the cure certain. How different this is from the usual
treatment.   A friend of mine .was  shut up  in  a dark room  for ten
weeks.  He had his eye cauterized  several  times, besides having sev-
eral operations performed upon  him, and after all his eye is not so
well cured as it would have been by this remedy in a fortnight, if it
had been taken in time; but in that case he perhaps would have said
the  inflammation was not severe.
  Inflammation of the Eyes.—The  eye to be bathed two or
three times a day with a portion of  the remedy diluted in an equal
quantity of water.  If the eye be much inflamed, add a white bread
poultice  on going to bed, placed between two cloths.
  Inflammation in the Brain is cured by rubbing the crown of
the  head with the remedy until the  pain is removed.  There are sev-
eral instances in which very valuable lives might have been prolong- 
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ed by the use of this remedy.  Malibran, whilst at Manchester, fell a
sacrifice to it; and I am confident that if it had been applied as above,
her life would have been spared.                                 *
   Toothache is cured in a manner which I discovered myself.  It
is simply by filling the ear on that side of the head where the pain is
with the remedy pure, and letting it remain in the ear  for ten min-
utes, in most cases sufficient to remove  the  pain.  1  have  seldom
known it fail.   For any other than decayed teeth the cure is general-
ly permanent.  For decayed teeth it may return again upon taking
cold ; it should remain in the ear from five to ten minutes.
   Earache is cured the same as  the  Toothache, by filling the ear
with the remedy.  This is rather a pleasant operation,  and calculat-
ed to do great good in other respects.
   Deafness is greatly relieved, and very often cured, by the same
method, filling the ear with the remedj'.  I  have  known  it to be of
great use in several instances ; and since I have filled my ears with
it I can hear with greater clearness.  The best time is upon retiring
to rest.  Fill first the ear which is the least affected with deafness,
and let it remain in for ten minutes ; after which fill the other ear,
and let it remain in  the ear  all  night.  It  conduces very much  to
sound sleeping.
   Teeth are preserved by putting a little of  the  remedy, once
each week or fortnight, upon the tooth brush when it is used.   This
will also remove any soreness which may be in the teeth from eating
sour fruit, or any other, cause.
   Gum BotLS are cured by saturating a piece of fine linen with the
remedy, and applying it to the part, betwixt the gums and the cheek.
The best time is upon retiring to  rest, and letting it remain the whole
of the night;  this will remove the most violent pain.   But the  same
operation requires to  be repeated several nights to remove the boil
and prevent the teeth from becoming loose.
   Eruptions upon the Face and Head  are generally removed
by rubbing the part with  the remedy.   If they are  of a  cancerous
nature, and of a few weeks' standing, the remedy  gives no pain, and
the cure is effected with surprising facility ;  but to all  other descrip-
tions of eruptions it gives pain.
   Ague, or  Intermitting Fevers, are  cured  by rubbing the
head once, on retiring to rest, and next morning  taking two  table-
spoonsful,  diluted with six  table-spoonsful  of hot water for a  man,
and half the quantity for a female, an hour  before  breakfast.  It
should be repeated for twelve mornings, or until the disorder is sub-
dued.
   Cholic is generally cured in four or five minutes, by taking two
table-spoonsful of the remedy, diluted with  hot water.  Tf it is not 
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cured by the first operation, it ought to be repeated, and  the  dose
made stronger.  It seldom requires repeating more than twice, though
I have known it repeated three times.
   Cholera is  cured by rubbing the head once or twice, or as often
as the pains in the  head return, and  by taking  two or  three table-
spoonsful, diluted with hot water.   This should be repeated several
times each day, if the attack is very strong, at short intervals; and
if the skin is discolored, the part ought to be rubbed with  it until
the complaint is subdued, which will be known by the removal of the
pain.
   Quinsey, or Sore  Throats, should be grappled with in every
possible way, first by gargling with the remedy pure, second by fill-
ing each ear with the remedy pure, one after the  other,  and letting
it remain in each ear ten minutes.  I  have found  great relief from
this method, and the best time is upon retiring to rest.  Then a little
linen, saturated with the remedy, should be wrapped round the neck,
and kept moist; these methods are generally successful; but if not
the danger from the sore throat becoming something worse is greatly
reduced.  This  is one of those complaints which require  great per-
severance, and  even the use of leeches may be necessary after  all;
but such cases will be very rare.
  Inflammation in the Bowels is cured  by taking  two table-
spoonsful of the remedy, diluted with hot water, repeatedly, and at
short intervals, until the .pain is removed.  It is. also well  to rub the
exterior, and apply warm flannel  to  the  part, which may be kept
warm, or  even  hot, by applying  a warming pan  to  the flannel.  I
have found great benefit from this operation.
   Pains in the Side, which are often the forerunners of Pleurisies
and other Fevers.  After the crown of the head  has been  rubbed,
the side should  be well rubbed with the remedy until the pain is  re-
moved.  If this  does not succeed, it will be  necessary to take a piece
of linen, about half a yard square, and double it several times, until
it becomes six inches square ; saturate  it well  with the  remedy, and
apply it to the part; it should be kept moist. It has been of great use
in numberless instances,  and generally removes the pain in less than
an hour, and very often  prevents fever.  It will also be well for the
patient to take two table-spoonsful of the remedy, diluted with  hot
water.
  Rheumatism is always relieved, and  often cured,  by rubbing
with this remedy upon the part afflicted.  But it ought to be contin-
ued for several days, or  even weeks, once  or twice each  day, and
there are cases  in which it is necessary the patient should  take two
table-spoonsful,  mixed with hot water,  once a day, for twelve or four-
teen days.  This is one of the most stubborn complaints in existence,
and requires great  patience  and  perseverance ;  but even. this  has 
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 been obliged to yield to the remedy, though  the  use of a brush is
 sometimes necessary.  A great many instances might be adduced of
 persons afflicted with this complaint who have been obliged to pass
 their winters, in great pain, within doors, but by its application have
 been able to enjoy themselves during the whole of the year.
   Gout and Rheumatic Gout.—These painful  disorders  being
 in the  blood, it will be necessary that the  person afflicted should have
 his or her crown of the head well rubbed with the remedy, once, on
 retiring to rest; the morning after take two table-spoonsful mixed with
 hot water, an hour before breakfast, which should be  repeated for
 twelve or fourteen days, and the part inflamed, or where the pain is,
 touched with something soft, perhaps a feather,  until the patient can
* bear to rub it with the finger.  These are complaints which require
 great perseverance.
   Gravel.—Take a table-spoonful (diluted) three or  four times a
 day.
   Burns and Scalds are very soon cured by this remedy.   The
 part affected should be rubbed with the  pure liquid.   The first ap-
 plication is painful, but not of long continuance, and each applica-
 tion is less painful.  The sore  is  soon  cured, but  sometimes it is
 necessary to apply something to soften the sore ; tallow or hog's lard
 is good, or anything else of a softening  nature.
    Chilblains are cured by the  application  of this  remedy; but
 care should be taken that the part affected shouM be  rubbed until
 perfectly dry.   There is also another cure, which is  simply washing
 the hands or feet in a strong ley of salt and water, and let  it dry
 upon them.
   Insanity, or what is called Affection  of the Nerves,
 which  produces lowness of spirits, may be almost  always prevented
 by rubbing  the crown of the head twice or thrice with this remedy.
 But it ought to be well rubbed each time for ten minutes, or a quar-
 ter of  an hour; and I  think, in order to  confirm the cure, two table-
 spoonsful should be taken for twelve mornings, fasting, diluted with
 hot water.  Children of the age of four  years, and under, are cured
v by rubbing the crown of the head only once.  I have had so many
 proofs of it that I can speak  with great  confidence.  There is only
 one case in which  it was not successful, and that was an eruption on
 the skin ;  in all other complaints, whether illness or weakness, it has
 been successful.   There are many instances  in the village  near my
 castle; and those children are far more  healthy and handsome than
 those who have not had their heads rubbed with the remedy.  I hap-
 pened to call at one of my farms, and found three children in the ague ;
 they were in a state of great prespiration : the  eldest was nine years
 old; the other two under three ; they were all  rubbed upon the crown
 of the head.  During the operation every one  was better, and be- 
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fore I left  the house they appeared free from pain.  I did not see
them after, but I inquired very often, and their father said  they had
never had any return  of the fever.   The surprising effects of this
remedy, from rubbing the crown of the head, particularly in infants,
lead me to doubt the generally received opinion that headaches are
caused by the state of  the stomach ; and I am convinced, by obser-
vation, that the state of the head not only acts upon the stomach, but
upon all other parts of  the human frame.   This, I think, has been  a
mistake among professional men ; and no doubt they will be offended
at me for venturing to question the generally received opinion ; but
as my opinions are founded upon close observation and  facts, 1 beg
of them to turn their attention (with a proper allowance that  even
the most generally received ideas may bo erroneous) to  the investi-
gation of this great truth.   But let them come to what conclusion they
may, they cannot throw a doubt  upon the fact that  children are
cured by rubbing the crown of the head with this  remedy.

   Cancers.—I have had such great success in the cure of them that
I thought it never failed, and that merely by rubbing or washing the
sore.  There are at present some doubts whether  it cures those of
a very long  standing or not, but there  is not the  least doubt that  it
will cure those which have been in  existence for a  year, and it  ma}'
be easily known whether the sore is of a cancerous nature or not by
the application of the remedy.  If it is so, the  application  gives no
pain, and the cure is rapid ; to all  other  sores it  gives  pain.  For
cancers of long standing,  I recommend that the crown  of  the  head
should be well rubbed with the remedy, and that the patient should
take  two  table-spoonsful, diluted  with  hot  water  every  morning.
The sore ought to be washed with the  remedy, and soft linen saturat-
ed with the remedy applied,  and  kept,  if possible, constantly t<j it-
In all cases, if this method is followed, it will be  a great relief, and
generally a  cure;  and, for the future, there will be very few bad
cancers, if the remedy is  applied in their early stage.

  Worms.—Take two table-spoonsful of the remedy pure, an hour
before breakfast;  for a child, from  five to seven years  of age, half
the quantity is sufficient.

  Fevers.—In all cases  of fever,  and there are several kinds, rub-
bing the crown of the head with the remedy should he the  very first
operation, and  immediately after the patient should take two table-
spoonsful, diluted with hot water ;  this should be repeated at  inter-
vals of from an hour to  three  hours, according to the  nature a*id
violence of the attack.  No amendment can be hoped for  until the
inflammation is reduced, and  nothing will reduce it so  soon as this
remedy, and that without bleeding  and blistering ;  but all complaints
are the most easily cured at their commencement.

  Inflammation  on the  Lungs will  generally be  relieved by 
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washing the crown of the head, and taking two table-spoonsful, diluted
with hot water.  But it should be taken several times each day, and
a piece of linen, several thicknesses, saturated  with the remedy, put
upon the part where the pain is.

   Consumptions.—I have not the  least  doubt but the  majority
might be cured by an application of this remedy, in its earlier stages,
and that  without confinement, by first rubbing the crown of the head
once, and taking one or two table-spoonsful of the remedy, diluted
with hot  water, every morning, an hour before breakfast; it will be
well to rub the chest once each morning.   There are two cases of its
almost wonderful effects, one at  La Ferte Imbault, and the other in
the* Isle of Man.*   As the remedy is a  new discovery, the cases of
its cure of this complaint are not many ;  but only let  it be  properly
and generally used, and  I have no  doubt but millions will  derive
benefit from it each year.

   Asthmas are greatly relieved by rubbing the crown of the head
once,  before retiring to rest, and taking one or two  table-spoonsful
diluted with hot water, for several mornings.  The sister of the cur-
ate of our Parish, in France, had been  long afflicted with asthma,
and, after repeated recommendations, she had been  induced to try
it; her brother always said, to  any inquiry, that she was well since
she had used the remedy, therefore I hope that it will do good in all
cases, and cure in some.

   Colds and  Coughs  are greatly relieved by the  application  of
this remedy to the parts affected.  If in the head,  the head  should
be rubbed ;  if in the  throat, the ears should be filled, one after the
other, and let remain for ten  minutes, the  throat  gargled, and the
neck and breast rubbed with the remedy.   They are oft  very tedi-
ous, and require great perseverance, and even  with all this it is ne-

  * Brandy  and Salt.—Our last number contained a long account of a
novel yet simple medicine, (a mixture of brandy and  salt) strongly recom-
mended by its discoverer, as a powerful remedy in several  dangerous mala-
dies which afflict the human  race.  As the article  in question was not the
puff for a quack nostrum, but written by a gentleman with  a view to  ben-
efit his fellow creatures, we  readily gave it insertion, and are now glad of
having been the means of increasing its publicity, as we have since  had an
opportunity of witnessing its efficacy in a case wherein the life of the patient
seemed to be in imminent peril.  A young man, who had  resided for stome
time in this Island, went to South Carolina three years ago with the inten-
tion of  settling in that state, where all  his  friends reside: but a southern
climate not agreeing with his constitution, he  returned to Douglas about a
month  since, apparently labouring under a confirmed consumption, in the
hope of benefiting under a change of air.  Having read a description of the
above named medicine, he began to give it a trial, and after persevering ac-
cording to the prescription fornearly three weeks, all the consumptive symp-
toms vanished, and he became so greatly improved both in health and appear-
ance, that  he is now actually preparing for his return to America; but with
the desiirn of fixing in a more salubrious part of that nourishing country.—
Manx Liberal. 
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 cessary to apply leeches.   If the chest is attacked, the patient should
 apply a piece  of soft linen,  of several thicknesses, to the breast,
 saturated with the remedy, and kept moist.   The effects of this ap-
 plication is sometimes very striking.

   Dysentery, if violent, should be treated  first by  rubbing the
 crown of the head with the remedy once, and   immediately  taking
 one or two table-spoonsful diluted with hot water; this should be re-
 peated three or four times each  day.  The disorder  must  be very
 bad if it is not subdued in two or three  days ; but perseverance is
 necessary.

   Sprains are easily cured with this remedy ;  sometimes by  merely
 rubbing; but if that does not succeed, by taking a long piece of lin-
•en, about two inches broad, and wrapping it several times round the
 part,  after it has been saturated with the remedy, they are generally
 cured in a day or two ; but the linen should be kept  moist with the
 remedy the whole of the  time, until a cure is effected.

   Bruises sometimes require to be several  times rubbed with the
 remedy.  At other times once or  twice suffices: but it is always
 well to persevere until the cure is effected.   The application gives
 no pain ; but sometimes bruises are rather tedious in being cured.
   Scurvy only requires  to be rubbed with the remedy several times
until  the complaint is subdued.  But if the person afflicted considers
his blood to be any way bad, he will do well to have the crown  of
 the head rubbed with the remedy, and take one or two table-spoons-
ful, diluted with  hot water, each morning before breakfast, for twelve
mornings.  It will generally purify the blood in that time.
   Itch,  I believe, may be cured by this remedy, by washing or rub-
bing with it till the complaint is subdued.   But this is often tedious,
and requires perseverance and great cleanliness.
  Ring-Worms, upon children's heads, are easily cured by rubbing the
head with the remedy. It very seldom takes a week to cure the com-
plaint, and  nothing can be done which conduces more to the general
health of children than rubbing the head.  Many schools are broken
up by this teasing complaint, which might be  avoided  by the  master
or mistress  using it for the children.  I believe  its infecting qualities
are removed by the first application.
   Paralytic Attacks should be attended to the same moment as
the attack commences ; and this will show the necessity of  all fami-
lies being provided with a bottle ready prepared.  The crown of the
head should be well rubbed with the remedy, and at the same time
the patient  should have two table-spoonsful for a woman, and three
table-spoonsful for a  man  given, diluted  with hot water.  Another
person ought to be employed in rubbing the part affected with the
remedy.  Perhaps it may be necessary to give  the patient more than 
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one dose;  but this must be left to the discretion of his friends.  It
is sure to do good in repeating it.

  Pregnancy.—Pregnant women ought to take one table-spoonful
diluted with hot water, once a week  or  fortnight, but not  oftener,
during their pregnancy.  It renders the  child more healthy, and the
delivery is effected with greater ease.
  Bites of Poisonous Reptiles are  easily cured by rubbing the
parts bitten with the remedy.  It neutralises the poison, and heals the
sore in a very short time ; but  it is well to do it  immediately after
the bite has been given.
  Bites of Mad Dogs, or any other dogs, are easily cured by rub-
bing well  the part bitten with this remedy.   I believe no uneasiness
may be felt by the person bitten, if it is rubbed the same day ; but it
is always best to do it immediately after, and it ought to be rubbed
several times, and a piece of soft  linen,  saturated with the  remedy,
applied to the part.  This  is one of those cases which I have not
proved by fact, not having come under my notice; and I have not
had occasion to prove it upon myself.
   Stings of Wasps, Bees, &c., are cured by  rubbing the part im-
mediately after being  stung'; the  relief,  as well  as the attack, is in-
stantaneous ;  but I do not think it does much good if the part is suf-
fered to swell; therefore the application should be prompt.

  Erisipelas is cured by rubbing  the part with the remedy.  A
clergyman in the North has had the kindness to communicate a case
which I will give in  his own words r— " The patient was a woman.
Having occasion to call at the house on business, one morning about
ten o'clock, I found the poor creature more  dead than alive,  from
violent pain,  and a sensation of burning heat in  her  arms and hands,
which were red  with  inflammation from the fingers to the elbows:
She was in perfect misery, she  said, having  been  unable to sleep a
moment for two nights.   Some  aperient medicine had been  given
her, but there had been no external application to the parts  affected.
I asked her if I might try  to relieve  her ;—she replied, I  might  do
anything I liked.  Accordingly, with this  permission, I sent to my
house for a cupful of the remedy, which  I kept ready prepared; and
with this I proceeded  to bathe  both  hands and arms for about ten
minutes.  The effect was almost miraculous, and the poor  creature
laughed for joy.  This, as I have said, was about  ten o'clock,  A. m.
About noon  I called again,  to see whether things were going on
right, when the patient was  fast asleep and comfortable.   In the-
evening she was still better, having bathed herself again.   In  short
in forty-eight hours exactly, the cure was completed.  Not only was.
all pain removed, but the limbs had recovered their usual appearance
and every trace of discoloration on  the skin had vanished."  This
will show  how much good may be done, with little trouble, by minis- 
H
tcrs of the Gospel;  and it is  really part of their work to promote
the health of their  parishioners and hearers ;  therefore I hope that
all such will  make themselves  acquainted with the  contents  of this
little publication, and apply them where they may be useful.

  Tic Doloreux.—This painful complaint may be greatly relieved
by the use of this remedy ; perhaps cured if it is  in the face.   The
crown of the head  should be well rubbed with the remedy; after
which the ear on the side of the head next it  should be filled with
the remedy,  which should remain in for ten minutes.  After, the part
affected should be rubbed with the remedy.  If these fail of effecting
a cure, I should recommend that the patient should  take two table-
spoonsful of  the remedy, diluted with hot water, each morning be-
fore breakfast, about an hour, for fourteen days.

  Scrofula must be very difficult to cure ; but as it is in the blood,
that ought to be  purified, which is easily effected, by first  rubbing     t
the crown of the head once with the remedy, after which the patient
should take one or two table-spoonsful of the remedy, diluted  with
hot water, an hour before breakfast,  every morning for at least a
month ; and the sores should  be  covered with soft  linen, saturated
with the remedy.  It will also be well to apply something softening
to the sore.  I know of nothing better than  tallow. I  do not say
that this will cure, but I do say that it will alleviate  the  pain  of the
sufferer, and change a life of pain and misery to one of comparative
comfort and  ease.

  Bilious Complaints are cured by rubbing first the crown of the
head once before retiring to rest, and next morning taking two table-
spoonsful  of the  remedy diluted with  hot water, an  hour  before
breakfast, for twenty mornings.  Before  half of that time  is passed
the good effects of the application will be seen in the face; of the pa-
tient, which, from sickly yellow or white, will become fair and ruddy.
But this is a small part of the benefit, as the afflicted will acknowledge.
  Bites of Musquitoes, Gnats, and other Noxious Insects,
may  be cured by only rubbing the part bitten  with the remedy.
  Plague,  being an inflammatory complaint, I hope may be cured,
by the same  method as others of the same description ; that is, by first
rubbing the  crown of the head, and immediately after giving the pa-
tient three table-spoonsful, diluted with hot water, which ought to  be
repeated every  ten minutes, if the patient can take it, until the com-
plaint is subdued.  I wish this could be introduced into the Turkish
empire ; many valuable lives would be  spared if it were successful,
of which I have very little doubt.

  Mortification is almost as easily stopped, and the cure effected,
if I may judge by the only case which has come uuder my observa-
tion, as any other  sore.   It was of the  person who had his  hand 
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crushed by a cart, mentioned in my last year's address, and who had
a part of one of his fingers taken  off.  It was applied as to any
common sore, by wrapping a piece  of soft  linen, saturated with  the
remedy, upon the  sore and kept humid, by wetting it several times
a day.
  Boils and Abscesses should be  covered  with a piece  of soft
linen, saturated with the remedy, and kept wet.  By this  means
though  it does not prevent or retard the bursting of the boil  or  ab-
scess, it very much relieves the pain by removing the inflammation.

   Cuts.—As a tincture, I do not  think that this remedy has its
equal, giving very little pain when first applied, and curing in a short
time.  Any person will know that the application should be made by
saturating a piece of linen in the remdey, and wrapping it round the
part cut, which must be very severe if there is occasion to  remove
the linen  till the cure is effected.   But it should be kept always moist
by adding a little of  the remedy  several times each day.
   Whitlow may be cured by either holding the finger in the rem-
edy, or saturating a piece of soft  linen with it, and wrapping it round
the sore.  But it should be kept wejt until the cure  is effected.
   Lumbago, though comprised under the head of Rheumatism,  it is
well to observe, is generally removed by rubbing the part.   But if it
cannot be removed by that means, or it returns again, I  should  re-
commend the patient to have the  crown of the  head well  rubbed
once, on retiring to rest, with the remedy, and then taking, for seve-
ral mornings, an hour  before breakfast, two table-spoonsful  of the
remedy, diluted with hot water.
   Jaundice, I believe, may be cured by rubbing the crown of the
head once, on retiring to rest, and taking two table-spoonsful,  diluted
with hot water, for several mornings, an hour before breakfast, until
the complaint disappears, which I expect it will do in  eight or ten
days.
   Liver Complaints and Affections of the Heart can only
be removed by putting the intestines in a healthful state, which may
be effected by rubbing the crown of the head  once, on retiring to
rest, and each morning taking two table-spoonsful of the remedy, di-
luted with hot water, an hour before  breakfast; perhaps it requires
to be taken for months before the complaints are cured.  But pre-
vention is always better than cure, therefore the intestines should be
kept healthy, and the blood pure.
   Sores of long standing are relieved, and very often cured, by
this  remedy, by saturating soft linen with it, and applying it to the
sore.  After three or four applications it always relieves the pain ;
and  the most obstinate setfasts are removed, and that without pain,
in a few days, and the sore becomes clean, not only from  that, but 
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 all other impurities.  How many poor creatures pass lives of misery
 from incurable sores, who will be relieved by the use of this remedy !
 There are  many instances of persons who have  not  been  able to
 sleep for weeks,  who have slept the very first night after its  applica-
 tion  ; and all, let their case be  ever so bad, may have the same con-
 solation  if they apply this simple  remedy.   A gentleman  of Hull
 says, " I found it very efficacious myself, to wet a piece of fine linen
 with the  remedy, and bind it on the diseased  part, which I  always
 kept moist, by pouring a few drops upon the linen.  The more fre-
 quent the application of the  remedy the better.  This I strictly at-
 tended to for three weeks, and though  my leg had been  bad  for
 months, and bid defiance to the best medical aid I could procure, and
 caused me to give up all hopes of recovery, to my great surprise the
 inflammation was entirely gone, the wound was healed, and well in a
 month."
   Yellow  Fever, which often terminates in the Black Fever, call-
 ed the Black Vomit, is, I suppose, much of the  same nature  as the
 Plague ;  therefore  it must be treated in the same manner.  I have
 no doubt but a great many lives may be preserved by that method.
   Gall  Stones are no doubt produced by the intestines  being  in
 an unhealthy state : therefore it is well to keep them always healthy,
 which may be generally effected by rubbing the  crown of the head
 once, and taking the lemedy, each morning for a week or ten days,
 an hour before breakfast, diluted with hot water.  A beloved sister
 suffered,  and was confined to bed, for several months, by refusing  to
 use it as above.  After the Gall Stones  are formed, I  do not  think
 they can be  removed by any other than the ordinary method, but the
 pain may be greatly alleviated by the  application of  this  remedy ;
 the pain  ought to be attacked in every possible way, by rubbing the
 exterior, and applying fomentations to the part nearest the pain.
   Indigestion may be easily  corrected by rubbing the crown of the
 head once, and taking one or two  table-spoonsful of the remedy, di-
 luted with hot  water, every morning,  until the complaint is re-
 moved ; as a corrective, this remedy is very efficacious.
   Spinal Complaints, I believe, have their source in  the  head ;
 therefore it will be well first to rub the crown of the head  with the
 remedy, on  retiring to rest, after which, next morning,  the patient
 should take one  or  two table-spoonsful  of the remedy, diluted with
 hot water, an hour before breakfast, each morning, for twelve morn-
 ings, or till the complaint is removed.   Soft linen, of several thick-
 nesses, saturated with the remedy, should be applied to  the  part
 where  the pain is,  if rubbing does not  remove it, and it should be
renewed several  times a day if the spine is very painful, and always
kept moist.  Application, in this manner, for  two or three days,  is
sure  to reduce the pain, though  it may not cure the complaint  so
 soon. 
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  Through Mr. V., of Hull, who has received great benefit himself
in the cure of a bad and inflamed leg and rheumatism, I am enabled
to add many well authenticated cases;  the whole of those persons
are  now living in his neighbourhood, therefore those benefitted may
be seen, and  I  am given to understand that they will  answer any
questions which may be put to them: —
  1. A Lady at  Grimsby cured of rheumatism in the arm.
  2. A Gentleman at York  cured  of  violent  rheumatism in his
hands, which had been of long standing.
  3. A Gentleman at Hull  cured of lumbago.
  4. Two Women were cured of violent sore throats; but they lost
their husbands of the  same complaint, because they would  not use
the remedy ;  they  were of that class to whom it does no good.
  5. Mrs. Williams, Finkle-street, cured of inflammation in the throat
and lungs.
  6. Mrs. Harrison, 41 Saville-street, cured of spasms and indigestion.
  7. Mr.  Craggs, Dock-street, cured of pain in the side.
  8. Ann Banks, Myton-street, quite cured of a paralytic stroke,
though she had lost the use of one side, called at Mr. Vallance's shop
and gave him her  own acccount of the cure, which she attributed
solely to the remedy of Brandy and Salt.   She took as much as two
glasses full each day.
  9. Captain Plumb, of the vessel Ann, Keddy's Wharf, rheumatism
in the head and all over  the body.   He  appeared very near death.
Mr. V. recommended the Brandy and  Salt.  He rubbed his head,
and took it according to prescription ; on the  fourth day he called,
with a smile on his countenance, and said he was  much better.  He
continued to recover, and is now quite well.
  10. Mrs. Hodgson, Myton-Gate, sore throat cured.
  11. Mrs AVardle, Bishop-Lane, violent pain at  the heart, who had
been unwell  for several  months, and was given up by three physi-
cians.  Her complaint was  removed in a few weeks, and she is now
able to attend to her domestic concerns, though she has  a family, and
keeps a public house.
  12. Mrs. Brown, Labour-in-Vain  public  house, cured of violent
pains in the head.
  13. A man at Flambro', cured of a white swelling in the  knee
His wife of a bad leg also.
  14. Mr. Bealby, cured of a bad leg.
  15. Mr. Easton, Hull and  Brigg carrier, cured of a  bad leg of
twenty-two years' standing.
  16. James Calvert, Agnes-Place, cured of an abscess in the lungs
and consumption.
  17. John  Crowest, Pilot, Manchester-Place, in the last stage of a
consumption, cured.   This person and James Calvert applied to Mr.
V. at the same time.   The application of the remedy caused  them
to throw off the stomach, by coughing, an immense quantity of cor- 
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rupt matter, mingled with blood and phlegm, for several nights;  but
after it was discharged, their coughs ceased entirely, and they thought
themselves quite well.  From gratitude they called  to thank Mr. V.
who went with them to the doctor.   He was surprised at the cure, as
he thought it an impossibility, their deaths having been considered in-
evitable.  Calvert was cautioned not to take cold, as one half  of his
lungs was gone.   He said, " I never was better in my life, except a
little weakness in my legs."
  18. ----Robinson, a poor man,  very bad of Rheumatism, not able
to walk, driven about the streets of Hull in a carriage drawn by two
dogs, quite cured in a few weeks, and able to walk and attend  to his
business.
  19. Mrs. Hardy,  near  Waltham-street  Chapel, cured of a large
tumour upon the  neck.
  20. A boy had his foot severely bruised by a shutter falling  upon
it;  was cured in a week by the application of the remedy.
  Those to whom it does no good.—There is  a large class in
society to whom it does no good—they are those who will not use it;
but I have no doubt they are daily diminishing in number, for after
any one has applied it to any complaint, the benefits are so manifest
that it would be to suppose them not endowed with common  sense
not to apply it again in case of need ; it only requires very little  re-
flection to know  how to apply it to any complaint, whether external
or internal, and there is not the least fear of any bad effects from it.
Experience of several years  has convinced me that it has never  yet
done any harm, but its efficacy  is much more certain when it is used
clear.
  Inflammation.—I saw it stated in a newspaper that  a profes-
sional gentleman had published a treatise to prove that complaints of
all  kinds are caused by inflammation ;  this coincides with my opinion
and observation ; and such being the case,  it is not surprising  that
this remedy has cured almost every complaint to which it  has been
properly applied, or has greatly relieved them ; but the universality of
its  efficacy has been thought by some a great objection to it. A  lady
to whom it was recommended said—" I have no faith in it, for you say
that it cures so many complaints ;  if you said  it cured only  one, I
could use it for that; but as  you say there are so many, I will  not
use it for any."   This may be wisdom; but, as I have known it cure
•the head, ear and tooth-ache, inflammation in the eyes, ague,  cholic,
pains in the side, chilblains, burns and scalds, cancers, and several
other complaints, and some of them scores of times,  I should be want-
ing in my duty if I did not recommend it for them.

   Cancers.  It has been  applied in six cases of cancer, five of
 which it has cured, and that  without pain ; even the first application
 did not give pain  but  relief; three of these were very severe, and
 had been of long continuance; the other two were at the commence- 
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ment, and to the sixth it was applied but once, which brought  on a
great bleeding, which I believe, was necessary, as the  patient was
much better for it;  but it alarmed his friends, they called in his med-
ical advisers, (he being a wealthy man,  he  had the  best  the  place
could afford,) they were much offended by  its application, and said
they would  not come again if he  continued to use it;  he therefore
promised he would not use it again, and I believe he  kept his prom-
ise, as he died in less than twelve months  after; and judging  from
the others, I have no doubt that he would have been cured if he had
not been prevented from applying it.  The other five are all poor,
and are cured and living at present, or were a short time ago; the
rich was not cured, and is dead.   I wish this had been  otherwise, as
he is said to have been a worthy man.
   Sprains—Many persons suffer from  sprains  for  months, who
might be cured, by "fomenting  the.  part with this remedy, in a few
days, and some of them in a few hours.  I have known several who
have suffered  for weeks, though under very able doctors, cured in a
a very short time with it.
   A respectable individual informed me that an acquaintance of his, a
commercial traveller, who  one evening  had  unfortunately taken
the  brandy without the salt,  happened, as  he was  ascending a stone
staircase, to stumble, and in falling, to biing his head in contact with
the  ed;re of one of the steps.  In consequence of this, a great portion
of thc^skin was rubbed off his forehead.   There being Salted Bran-
dy in the house, he had the cou'rage to apply it to the  raw surface !
The accident occured on the Friday eveninff, and the embrocation was
continued till  Sunday night, and on Monday morning the wound was
sufficiently healed to admit of his  wearing his hat and entering on
his journey.
   The  Cashier in a gentleman's  office  in  Liverpool  accidentally re-
ceived a very smart blow on the back of his left hand, from  the edge
of a door opened hastily by one of the workmen, who was not aware
that any one stood in the way.   The injury was followed by such in-
flammation as completelv deprived him of the use of his fingers.   He
instantly applied the Salted Brandy, which so reduced the swelling
that he obtained the perfect use  of his hand in about three hours after
 he had received the blow.  This account  I had from his own lips, in
the presence of his emplover, who confirmed the statement.
   A gentleman told me of a case of violent inflammation in the chest,
 in which he administered a dose of this remedy in the  evening, and
 the following  morning found the patient  relieved.   I was  informed
that the physician in attendance was not over pleased with my friend
having, with the usual kindness of his disposition, and in the simplicity
 of his heart, interfered on the occasion.
   A farm-servant had some swelling on the side  of his face, which
 was probably  the Mumps, of such intensity  that he could not  possi-
 bly open his mouth.  My advice having been asked by the gentle- 
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man who communicated the case, and in whose  service he  lived,  I
recommended the  Salted Brandy to be given internally, through  a
quill, in the prescribed dose, twice a day, and a piece of linen, seve-
ral folds thick, thoroughly saturated with the preparation, to be ap-
plied to the tumour, and  to  be kept constantly moist.  This recom-
mendation  was complied with on, I believe, the  Sunday evening ;
and his master told me afterwards that the man resumed his work on
the following Thursday.
  The above instances of the efficacy of Salted Brandy, as a sedat-
ive of inflammation, I  consider as sufficient in this place, especially as,
in this respect, its powers will necessarily be  brought  under notice in
the course of what  I shall detail under other heads of injuries and dis-
eases, with  all of whi"h it will,  more or less, be found to be essentially
connected.   I would here only further remark, that I am quite con-
vinced that it might be used with the happiest effect  in  attempts to
reduce inflammation attending the  fracture and the amputation of
limbs.
  Open Sores.—In all cases  coming under this head, such as chap-
ped lips and hands, ulcers and  excoriations, this  preparation  will be
found very efficacious  in allaying the inflammation,  arresting the pro-
gress of proud flesh, and in healing the part affected.
  A lady told me that the hands  of  a servant maid  and lad  in  her
employ were so chapped  that  they  could  not use  them.  She  had
recourse to the Salted  Brandy, which, after the third or fourth appli-
cation, so reduced the  inflammation, as to restore  the use of the fin-
gers, and in a short time it completely healed the  sores.   A similarly
happy effect attended  its application to a severely chapped hand of
a lady of my acquaintance, to  whom I  had  the pleasure of success-
fully recommending it.
  A brother clergyman had  an abscess in his right  breast.  It had
been opened in the month  of April, but it  continued to discharge
matter (though repeated attempts had been made to heal it,)  till  the
following October, when I became acquainted with him, and  told me
of the obstinancy of the  ulcer.  I recommended a trial  of Salted
Brandy, and he very kindly put  himself under my care.  I therefore
directed him to take the remedy internally once  a  day, and  to keep
it constantly applied to the wound.   He did  so, and in the course of
three weeks or a month it was perfectly healed.
  Bruises.—A lady  residing in the eastern part  of Liverpool, in-
formed me that a sailor lad,  in the employ  of a captain of a vessel
belonging to the above port, had the misfortune to  bruise one of his
fingers so severely that his master thought it would be necessary to
have it cut off,  lest mortification might  ensue, as the  inflammation
had contiued unabated ever since the accident had  happened, which
was the period of a  fortnight;  therefore, on the  captain's  coming
ashore, he asked his wife  to what surgeon  he should  send the boy,
either for the,amputation or cure of his finger. She replied by desiring 
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him to send the lad to her.   He did so.  She commenced her oper-
ations by washing the bruised finger with the  Salted  Brandy ;  she
then enveloped it in several folds of linen, which were saturated with
the above preparation, and  directed  the boy to come to  her  on  the
following morning.   He came accordingly, and on  her  asking him
how his finger was,  he  said  that the  last was the only night since  he
had met with the injury, in which he had  enjoyed any sleep, and
that the  pain had nearly ceased.   She repeated the former treatment,
and, having continued  it for a few days, succeeded in effecting a per-
fect cure of this little sufferer's finger.
   Sprains.—The landlord of a respectable  hotel in  Liverpool  de-
tailed to me the  following case: A gentleman who was staying at his
house happened  to sprain his ancle, and was in consequence  unable
to move  his foot.  He caused the injured ancle to be embrocated with
Salted Brandy during  the  remainder of the evening, and received
so much benefit from the embrocation, that he was able to go  out  on
business the following morning.   Salted Brandy, however,  is  not
only of great service when  applied to a sprain immediately on its oc-
currence, but it is also very beneficial in cases of injured muscles,
from sprains long since received.
   Indurated Tumours.—The  following  case  was communicated
to me by a friend, in the presence of a physician, who was also  ac-
quainted with it.  A person had an  indurated tumour on the back of
one of his hands, in consequence, I suppose, (for my friend did not as-
sign the cause which produced it,) of some external injury. The coun-
try surgeon completely failing to reduce it, the patient went up to Lon-
don, where he entrusted the  treatment of the tumour to one of the most
eminent surgeons there ;  but after he had submitted  to  it for some
time, he returned to the country, having  experienced  no  benefit
whatever.  He again called in the service of his  former  medical at-
tendant, and, while  under his care, he heard of Salted Brandy, and
applied it as an embrocation to the part affected.   Resolved to give
it a fair trial, he entirely discontinued the liniments sent him, and did
not tell his surgeon what he was using; but, after he hail tried it  for
some time, he showed him his hand, and he pronounced  it to be  ad-
vancing towards a cure. The patient then acknowledged what course
he had adopted, and being  encouraged to persevere in  it, he, in a
short time afterward, succeeded in completely reducing the tumour
and recovering the perfect use of his hand.
   A gentleman living in Chester had a nodule  or tumour on his face,
which very much disfigured it   He  perseveringly embrocated it with
Salted Brandy, and entirely reduced it.
  Ere I quit this part of my subject, I would suggest the  probability
of Salted Brandy proving efficacious for the reduction of icens, bron-
chocele, or, what  is properly called, goitre.

  Paralysis.—A worthy friend of mine told me that he prevailed 
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on an acquaintance of his in Ireland, one of the sides of whose body
was so paralyzed that he could neither walk nor  do  anything else
without assistance,  to take the Salted Brandy internally, and also to
cause the side, of which he had lost the use, to be well rubbed with
it twice a day.   He  commenced  this course immediately ;  and my
friend happening to call on him about a week afterwards, found  his
patient, to his great but  agreeable surprise,  hobbling about unattend-
ed in his garden.

  Rheumatism.—A military  captain,  residing  in  Liverpool, to
whom I was introduced, was  so afflicted  with rheumatism as to be
confined to his bed.  He had  availed himself of the services of the
faculty, and had applied various  embrocations, but with no decid-
ed benefit.   He complained of being very  weak in body.   This I
could easily believe ; because  rheumatism of itself will  cause much
debility, and as the strong sudorific medicines which are generally
administered  in this disorder, as well  as  those of a  drastic nature,
cause much  exhaustion, and, consequently, weakness, there can be
no doubt of a rheumatic subject being  weakened  by  the ordina-
ry  course of medical treatment.   I talked to him about Salted
Brandy, and succeeded in persuading him to take it inwardly, and to
apply it externally to the parts affected.   The happy result was that,
in the course  of three weeks, he was enabled to rise from his bed and
to use his right hand, with which he had not been  able to write for
several years  previously, and  he was considerably  improved in his
general health.
  I have it in my power  to  communicate  several other cases  of
rheumatic subjects  whose limbs have been restored to their usual of-
fices, and whose health  has been greatly benefited  by their taking
this medicine ; but I consider  the case above detailed to be sufficient
evidence in favor of the salutary effect of Salted Brandy in rheum-
atism, whether chronic or acute—whether affecting the hip joint, and
then given the appellation of  sciatica, or the region of the loins, and
therefore called  lumbago.  It  may be right  also to remark, that this
remedy might be used with,  perhaps, good effect  in  cases of stiff
knees, and other joints similarly affected.

  Erysipelas.—The case of a complete cure of erysipelas was late-
ly communicated to me by a friend, whose brother was the individu-
al troubled  with it.  The seat of the disease was the leg, (it  being
that kind of erysipelas which  is confined to  an affection of the  skin,
but which does not pervade the system,) and  it  had been of two
years' standing.  Its progress  had been  formerly arrested  by other
remedies; the enemy, however, was not subdued, but was only re-
pulsed for a season.  It  would return after a time, and would renew
its ravages; and a  total  defeat of the foe and a complete cure of the
disease were not accomplished, until the Salted Brandy had been in-
ternally taken, and, at the same time, had been  externally applied. 
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I have successfully administered it to little children not seven years of
age, who were laboring under the effects of this distressing disorder.
  Jaundice.—This is a most  unpleasant malady ; and the method
adopted  for its removal, namely, a  course of smart  and continued
purgation, is not only tedious,  but  calculated  to weaken the  body,
and in some kinds, or rather stages, of this  complaint, to endanger
the life of the patient, not as a direct but as an indirect consequence,
because the above treatment renders the  body (especially when un-
der  the effect of blue pill, frequently,  but, I think, very improp-
erly given in this disease) very susceptible of cold; and cold caught
in the jaundice has not unfrequently been the cause  of death.   But
the patient need  have very little apprehension of taking cold  while
under a course of Salted Brandy ; because this medicine, though act-
ing as a powerful diaphoretic,  makes the  body less susceptible of cold
than  it is otherwise, and  especially when affected by drastic  medi-
cines.
   About four years ago, I had a very severe attack of jaundice, of
 which I was not cured  by the ordinary mode of treatment in less
than  two months' time.  I relapsed into the disorder every subsequent
 spring and autumn, and I had recourse to the same medicine as had
 at first removed it.  I continued subject to these relapses till the au-
 tumn of the year 1839, when  I found  my health worse  than ever  I
 knew it to be from the effects of this sickly and  enervating disease ;
 and,  having persevered in  the use  of several remedies prescribed for
 its restoration, and finding it still unimproved, I began to despair of
 long  surviving such a state of illness as I then experienced.
   Happening one day to be in the  office of  a friend in Liverpool,
 one of his oldest servants, having observed to me how ill I appeared,
 asked (on my answering that I was very ill, and that  I could not
 meet with anything which would cure me) whether I had ever  heard
 of Brandy and Salt ?  I said that I had heard of such a preparation,
 but that I had no more faith in it than in ditch water.   He then told
 me  that he had been  labouring under tightness in the chest,  a sore
 throat, and an inflammation in the bowels, all at once, and that the
 Salted Brandy had cured him of all the three.  This was my first intro-
 duction to this remedy, and the above report induced me to make  a
 trial  of its powers.   I immediately commenced taking it; yet  I was
 not actuated  on the  occasion  by any confidence I had in its efficacy,
 for I felt not any.   I  persevered, however,  in using it, (though  I
 cherished no other hope of its curing me than a drowning man  really
 has of his being saved from  a watery grave when  he  catches at  a
 straw,) and in the course of a fortnight I.found that I was complete-
 ly set to rights, the liver  doing  its duty, and  my health and  spirits
 entirely restored.  As, however, I expected a relapse in the ensuing
 November, in which  in the year preceding, I had sustained an attack,
 I continued to take the remedy till the expiration of that month. In
 order to be clearly understood, I ought to state that, from November 
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1838, till the period of my being cured, in 1839, I was almost con-
stantly subject to the disorder;  yet, November  being the month  in
which I used periodically to relapse, I considered it advisable to con-
tinue taking the Salted Brandy in order to break the force of an at-
tack, in case I should  again  sustain one ;  but I experienced  no re-
lapse in November, and continued, till the  beginning of July free
from the effects of the disease, and was enabled  to pass the whole  of
the winter without putting on a great coat, which  I had  been con-
stantly obliged to wear for the  previous fourteen years of my life.
In the beginning of last July  I relapsed again ; but having again had
recourse to this medicine,  I had  not to wait  a month  or  five weeks
for my recovery, but I was restored to perfect convalescence, in eight
or nine days' time.
  Having received so much benefit from this medicine, so providen-
tially brought under my notice, I considered that it was my duty, after
I had obtained all the information within my  reach, and  had, to the
best of my ability, reasoned respecting it, to recommend it to others.
I had not long to wait for an opportunity of so doing, for  a very ex-
cellent young man, a member of the congregation to which I had the
privilege of  a share in ministering, was, shortly after my own recov-
ery, attacked with jaundice.   I prescribed him  Salted  Brandy, and
thereby cured him in five days !   To another individual, a tailor, who
had labored under this disorder for a very long time, and had deriv-
ed no benefit from the  usual mode of treatment, this remedy was
recommended by a friend of mine.  At first  he was quite disinclined
but was subsequently persuaded to try it.   In his case, which was a
very inveterate one, its operation was very slow ;  but  it  eventually
proved to be sure.
  Indigestion.—-It will be sufficient, under this head, to observe
that I have ample grounds for asserting that a more speedily effica-
cious medicine than Salted Brandy cannot be administered  for the
removal of dispepsia, or indigestion.

  Heart-Burn.—This is an unpleasant heat or  burning  sensation
in the stomach, and will be much sooner and more effectually correct-
ed by Salted Brandy, than either by carbonate of soda or magnesia.
   Spasms.—A great variety  of nervous disorders comes under this
head ; but, as this work is  written more especially for the use  of the
lower classes of society than  for the edification or entertainment  of
the learned, and so puts forth no pretensions to a scientific  or pro-
fessional treatise, the word used as an introduction or heading to this
paragraph, is to be taken in the commonly received acceptation of it.
   A lady, who was staying in Liverpool a short time, and had apart-
ments in the house in which  I  lodged, was  subject to such violent
spasms as occasionally produced alarming apprehensions.   The land-
lady told her of the Salted Brandy, and of the  great  benefit which
I and others had received from taking it.  She  in consequence  re- 
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quested an interview with me, which I felt most happy to afford her.
I prevailed on her  to try this  medicine, and  I  mixed her a bottle
of it, which she took with her.  In the  course of three weeks or a
month after she had joined her family, her husband wrote to a com-
mon friend to say of what essential service  the  Salted Brandy had
been to her, and to request the transmission of the newspaper which
contained an account respecting  it, with a view to the dissemination
of the knowledge of this extraordinary and excellent remedy in his
parts of the kingdom.  In the cholic, also, it will be found most ser-
viceable.
   Palpitation of the Heart.—In this disease the medicine  in
question, or rather beyond all question, will be found very servicea-
ble.  It should be  taken internally, as well as externally applied to
the part affected.

   Nettle-Rash.—I cured a lad of about thirteen years of age, who
was labouring under this complaint, with  Salted  Brandy.  It was
 taken  internally ; and its application to the  wheals or bumps, which
 sometimes (and did in this case)  accompany this disease, and are at-
 tended with a very troublesome itching, caused them in a very short
 time to subside, and the itching to cease entirely.

   Fits, whether Hysteric or Epileptic.—To a young  lady,
 who was very subject to fits, I prescribed the Salted Brandy.  She
 took it for a  fortnight or three weeks, and  experienced,  not only a
 cessation of these attacks, but a decided improvement in her general
health ; and she continued for several months free  from  the recur-
 rence  of a single fit.
   I also heard of this medicine having been administered with prom-
 ise of  success in the case of a gentleman who used to be seized by
several epileptic fits in the course of the day.

   Dysentery.—A friend informed me that the master of a vessel
 belonging  to Liverpool  cured several of his crew, who had  been
 attacked"with dysentery at  Havana.   He also  cured,  by means
 of the same medicine, two fellow master-mariners; one of whom, a
younjr man, was alarmingly ill.  This gentleman says that he needs
no other remedy in his medicine chest save Salted Brandy.

   Asthma.—Another friend communicated to me the case of a re-
spectable  farmer in Cheshire, who laboured under the effects of  this
disease to such a degree, that he was obliged to sleep in an erect pos-
 ture, havincr been enabled, after  taking a pint of Salted Brandy, in
the prescribed doses, to  lie down to rest without inconvenience.
   The principal of a respectable firm in the corn trade in Liverpool,
who had for many years suffered from an obstinate asthma, was in-
duced  to try Salted" Brandy for its removal.   He made the prepara-
tion accordingly, and took the dose in the manner prescribed, and 
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he very soon experienced great benefit from the medicine.   This in-
dividual spoke in  the  highest terms of its virtues, and wished that
they might be universally known.

  Cholera Morbus.—I have been creditably informed that Salted
Brandy proved quite a specific in the above awful disorder; and  I
feel perfectly convinced that not only in this, but in every  other in-
flammatory and spasmodic complaint, this remedy may be used with
the greatest safety and the most beneficial results.  In my own case,
I took the prescribed dose three times in one day for a violent inflam-
mation with which I was attacked in the bowels, and completely suc-
ceeded in a short  time in stopping the diarrhoea, and  in  allaying the
pain ; which was a sure sign of my  having subdued the inflammation.

   Cancer.—I know of a case of this disorder having been cured,
by the exhibition  of Salted Brand}', in a woman who is nearly sixty
years of age, and on whom the operation of the excision of the dis-
eased breast had been performed, but to no purpose ;  for, after the
wound had been  healed up, she was professionally informed that the
cancer had not been eradicated, and that to effect its entire removal
a second operation would be necessary.  Subsequently to her having
been sent home from the Infirmary, she  became so much worse, and
was  apparently so near  her  death,  that  she was  prayed for  in the
church ; about which  time a neighbor told her of Salted Brandy, as
reported to have proved efficacious  in curing cancer, and recommend-
ed her to try it.  She did so, and in the course of eight or nine days
from her having commenced using  this medicine, which she took in-
ternally twice a day, and kept constantly applied to the part affected
with pain, by means of a piece of folded  linen  saturated with the
preparation—in the course, I say, of eight or  nine days, she told me
that she experienced what she had not felt for  twenty years previ-
ously, namely, an appetite for food.  She daily improved  in  health
and  strength, and she appeared, the last time  I saw her, to have tak-
en, as the saying  is, a new lease of  her life!
   Another woman residing not far distant from the  village  in which
lives the subject of the  above notice, and having a cancer in  her
breast, has found  considerable benefit from the use of the remedy in
question.  When she began taking it, she could neither eat nor sleep
well; but within  a fortnight of her having commenced this course of
 medicine, she recovered her appetite and enjoyed sound sleep.  She
informed me that, a short time before  she was  advised to try this
remedy, leeches had been applied  to her breast, but that they could
 get  very little  blood, the color of which was very unhealthy; but
 that upon her again applying them, in about  ten days after she had
 commenced using the Salted Brandy, they drew the blood copiously,
 and^ that its color was  greatly improved.  Her  husband  said that,
 during the forty years in which he and his wife had lived  together,
 he had never known her sensibly perspire;  but that she perspired 
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profusely after she had for some days used the Salted Brandy. From
the foregoing communication  I  ascertained these  two particulars,
namely, that this medicine tends, as I had maintained previously, to
purify the blood, and acts as a powerful diaphoretic.
   Toothache.—A respected  friend  communicated to me a case
wherein Salted Brandy had proved of essential  service in allaying
the agony of this distractingly painful affection.   In, however, cases
of pain supposed to arise from a carious  tooth, I would  caution the
patient against too readily concluding that  the pain  proceeds  from
the nerve of a decayed tooth ; because,  in many instances, violent
pain in the  maxillary part of the face, in persons of delicate  fibre,
and women, during the period of pregnancy,  has been known to ex-
ist where no defect in any tooth was the exciting cause.  The teeth
are such important instruments, ,that I would advise  every person
suffering from pain in the region of the jaws, and supposing  that it
must arise from  a decayed  tooth, to  obtain  the  clearest proof that
such is the cause of the painful affection, ere the resolution be taken
to have the tooth extracted.  Before I take leave of this head, I would
observe that the soundness of the  teeth  may be best secured, and,
in consequence, much pain avoided, by cleaning them with a brush
and cold water just before bed-time; and that, if the pain  in the
face should  proceed from some  other cause than that of cariousness
in any tooth, I would dissuade patients from using those narcotic pre-
parations so generally recommended and unfortunately adopted for
tic-doloreux, and similar affections; because such remedies  often
prove more prejudicial than the evii which they are intended to re-
move ; for,  instead of curing, they lay the foundation of fresh suffer-
ing, and not unfrequently render the cure ultimately impracticable.
The course, therefore, which I  would recommend the p itient to pur-
sue, should  be an attempt  to  strengthen the system  by avoiding
everything  having  a tendency  to induce  debility, taking  Salted
Brandy internally for a couple of months at a time, and using, if prac-
ticable, as  much  exercise in the open  air as possible.  This, I  be-
lieve, will be found the most effectual  means of removing pains in
the face or elsewhere, originating in nervous  debility.
   Sore-throat.—I have had frequent opportunities of proving the
efficacy of  Salted Brandy in this complaint.  It should be used in its
undiluted state as a gargle, and as an embrocation to that part of the
throat where the inflammation appears to be seated.   Its effect will
be considered truly  surprising, if other  patients should  experience
the same immediate benefit from it which I have received in the case
of sore-throat.   My  throat has  been so inflamed, about an  hour be-
fore I went to preach, that deglutition  was most painful;  yet within
that hour, I have succeeded, by gargling and embrocating with Salted
Brandy, in  entirely reducing the inflammation.  Almost similar suc-
cess has attended the use of this sedative by a very worthy friend of
mine, who has been  occasionally troubled with soreness of the throat. 
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   Piles.—A case was lately communicated  to  me in which this
medicine had been of signal service in  affording  relief.  In this in-
stance, as well as in all others of an inflammatory character, no error
can be committed by using the remedy  both internally and locally at
the same time.
   Pulmonary Consumption.—A lady favored me with the com-
munication of the following case.   She  said that  her servant maid
had such a  distressing cough, such profuse  perspirations, and such
other symptoms of a consumption, that she contemplated expressing, in
as delicate a manner as possible, her apprehensions to the  poor girl,
and recommending her to go home to her parents ; but that, happen-
ing, when she was on the point of adopting the above course, to hear
of the Salted Brandy as much talked of for the cure  of this insidious
and flattering disorder, she fhought»shc would try it and await the re-
sult, before she should take any farther steps.  The consequence was,
that the young woman soon experienced benefit from its use.  The
cough ceased, her health was entirely restored, and she is still  in this
lady's service.
   Subsequently to my having written the foregoing  case, my atten-
tion was  directed by a respectable friend to the following statement,
which appeared in the Northumberland Advertiser.
  " Brandy and Salt.—A most remarkable cure has been  effect-
ed of a decided case of cousumption, in  the last stage, at Barnards-
castle, in the person  of Mr. Thomas Thompson, whitesmith, by the
use of Brandy and Salt.  Mr. T. has been for many months attended
by one of the first surgeons in  the above town, and  had gradually
become  worse, till there  remained by his  family no  hopes  of his
amendment: he, however, had recourse, lately, to Brandy and Salt,
and he is now as strong as  ever he was  in his life."  I have it  in my
power to produce several other well authenticated cases  of the cure
of pulmonary consumption  by this remedy.

  Liver Complaint.—A person in the employ of a friend of mine
in Liverpool had been for some time in ill health, and in consequence
was obliged to leave his work for three months, in order to see what
benefit he might receive from medical aid and a change of air.  The
former, of which he had the advantage   for about two  months, was
the means of partially restoring his health : but in a few weeks after-
wards he had a relapse  into his old complaint, and he was  forced at
intervals  to leave off working.   About this period I became acquaint-
ed with the very indifferent state of his  health.  He  looked wretch-
edly  ill, and appeared to be rapidly wasting away   I  strongly ad-
vised and prevailed on  him to try  Salted Brandy.  At first it made
him so sick at stomach, that he was afraid to  repeat  the dose ; but
upon my saying that I was glad  it  had acted as an  emetic, and that I
was confident that the sickness would shortly cease and no injurious
consequences ensue, he again commenced taking the  medicine I had 
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 recommended.  In the course of a fortnight he experienced consider-
 able benefit, manifested in the improved  appearance of his  counte-
 nance, in the restoration of his health, and freedom from  pain.  He
 now seems to be quite well; at all events he  has not been under the
 necessity, for the last eleven months, of leaving bis work for  more
 than a very few days, on account of ill health.

   Affection of the Ureter.—A respectable man of the  name
 of Peter Shaw, residing in Liverpool, personally communicated  to
 me the following case, which I detail under the above head, being at
 a loss for any other designation of it.   His case was this.  He used
 to be occasionally seized with a most intolerable pain  in the left loin.
 This lie had suffered for thirty-three years !   For a great length of
 time he had been under medical treatment; from which, however,
 failing to obtain any relief of his sufferings, he had at last recourse
 to Salted  Hrandy.  He did not apply it externally over the part
 where existed, as was supposed, the  cause  of the pain, but he took it
 only internally, and  he  assured  me  that it.  produced the happiest
 effect; for in one month it proved the means of completely removing
 the pain with which he had  for so many years  been  so  grievously
 afflicted.  As he seemed to wish that his name should appear in con-
 nection with the statement of his case, I allowed  myself  in this one
 instance to deviate from  my original design, which was to give  no
 names of persons whom I reported as having received benefit  from
 the use of Salted Brandy, deeming such a course perfectly unneces-
 sary.
   Diabetes.—A case of this nature was communicated to me as hav-
 ing been successfully treated  by the use  of Salted Brandy,  from a
 quarter which could leave no doubt on my mind as to the cure  hav-
 ing been effected by this medicine ;  for the experiment was made by
 a professional gentleman on my suggestion.
   Colds.—What is popularly called a cold, is nothing else but a mild
 species of, or an infant fever, which, if not immediately put to death
 by starvation, may so rapidly attain maturity and such strength,
 that its expulsion and execution may prove a very difficult and pos-
 sibly a doubtful  matter.  " Stuff a cold and starve a fever," is a prov-
 erb  which has been perverted from its original form and  import, by
 those to whom pampering the stomach was  a  greater  concern  than
 the preservation  of the health, and it seemed soon enough to  give
 over their gluttony when the cold had begun  to  assume the serious
 appearance of a fever; in all probability the above proverb originally
 was, or ought by right to be, If you stuff" a cold, you roitl have to starve
 a fever; which  evidently implies, that indulgence to a cold  woulti
 terminate in a fever, which nothing  short  of the most determined
exertions and self-denial would be able to  subdue and extinguisfl.
I  have purposely dilated  on the subject of colds,  because from
them may be dated the rise  of a great many diseases which send 
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thousands into eternity, ere they have lived out half the number of
their days on earth !   Salted Brandy will generally be found  most
efficacious in removing a cold, whether it be confined more particu-
larly to the head or to the chest, or whether  it pervade  the whole
body, by allaying the inflammation, and lestoring to the  obstiutted
perspiration a free passage through its accustomed channel.-.

   Sickness at Stomach.—Salted Brandy will be attended with
very good effect  in  cases  of nausea or disordered stomal h; and
might, therefore, prove highly  beneficial to  pregnant women, who
are generally troubled in the above  manner  during  some, or the
greater part, of the period of gestation.   I know of its speedy i fleet
in removing nausea;  but as this is a nauseous subject, I  shall not en-
ter into any detail of cases, nor offer any further remarks on it, ex-
cept to suggest the possibility, (can I venture to add the probability V)
of this preparation being of  service to the patient seized  with (Sea-
sickness !

   " Scrofula.—A  highly respectable and  much  esteemed friend
communicated to me the  efficacy of  Salted  Brandy in  this disease.
" We gave," says he, " the remains of a bottle  of this  mixture to a
poor woman laboring under  scrofulous affections, last spring.  She is
perfectly cured."
   The following observations are extracted from a recent publication :
   "Many  entertain a  prejudice against the ufc  of Brandy as a
medicine, and so do I; but the Brandy is a very different thing tak-
en by itself, from what it is when impregnated with Salt.   As I nev-
er take ardent spirits, and my general beverage is water, what I  ?m
about  to state may be considered worthy the greater attention.   For
the sake of  experiment, I have taken two table-spoonsful of Brandy
in as much hot water, and the consequence was a  most unpleasant
burning sensation in my  stomach and flush in my face; whereas no
 such result  followed the prescribed dose of medicine in  question, nor
 did I feel, after the lapse of a minute from taking it, as if  I had re-
 ceived ardent spirits into my stomach; whence I concluded that  the
 Salt had such an effect on the Brandy as to  remove the usual dele-
terious effect of the ardent spirit.
   " Some medical gentlemen have, but with all  due deference  I
think  without proper consideration,  cautioned  their  patients against
 the preparation in question, on the ground of its liability to produce
inflammation ;  but it appears to me most surprising that it should
be productive of internal inflammation, seeing that, when  applied as
an embrocation it acts as a most powerful and  speedy sedative ; and
 that such it proves in cases of internal as well as external  inflamma-
 tion, is evident from its wonderful  efficacy as a gargle for a sore
throat.  These  gentlemen  hesitate  not to prescribe  Brandy and
Water, sweetened with sugar, as a tonic to very weak patients:  why,
 therefore, should they consider diluted Brandy and Salt so dangerous, 
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the alteration being the substitution of Salt instead of the sugar ?  If
this preparation has an imflammatory tendency, let  them prove that
it has this effect; but I believe that they would  not enter the lists
with me in this contest.  The diluted Brandy and Salt  has over the
diluted Brandy and Sugar not only a medical but  a moral advantage;
because a too great fondness may be engendered for the latter, while
there need be no apprehensions whatever that such a  habit  for the
former will ever be contracted, notwithstanding the old proveib, that
habit is a second nature, and the force of acquired  tastes.
   " As I purpose taking a future opportunity, should my life be spar-
ed, of entering more fully into detail on the'subject of  this excellent
medicine, I shall close these remarks by recommending to those who
may be induced to take it, perseverance in its use, and  the total dis-
continuance  of that mode of living which has  a  tendency to foster
the malady, for the removal of which they have recourse to this pre-
paration ; and that as God is as well the preserver and restorer of our
health as he  is the author of our being, and effects  his  purposes  by
the intervention of means, no one should use this or any other med-
icine either superstitiously on the one hand, or irreligiously on tie
other ; but in dependence on the Deity for his blessing, and in entire
resignation to his will as to the result." 
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                                   Boston, 7 Nov., 1851.

   Liberty has been granted to refer to the following gentlemen,
who will give information in regard to various  cures which
have been effected by the use of Brandy and  Salt, as herein
prescribed.

   H. S. Bradley, Haverhill, Mass.  He had an affection of
one of his eyes ;  had been to the Eye Infirmary, and received
more relief from Salted Brandy than any other medicine.

   Samuel Bigelow, of Cambridge, was relieved  in a case
of vertigo.  His daughter also had a very troubles6me cough,
which was removed by the use of this remedy.
   John Benson, Boston, was afflicted with dispepsia, inflam-
matory rheumatism and vertigo.  Has also used it successfully
for diarrhoea and  dysentery, burns, scalds, and inflammation
generally.  Has  found it very beneficial in all such cases.

   Richard Ward, teller in the Atlantic Bank, can give more
information in regard to  the  good  effects  of Salted Brandy,
than any other person in this vicinity.

   Hundreds of Individuals, who have experienced  relief
in numerous cases of disease, can testify to the inestimable value
of Salted Brandy,  as a simple, safe and efficacious remedy. 
INDEX.
                                                            PAGE.
Abstinence from intoxicating liquors,.........................    5
Affection of the Ureta,.....................................   29
Ague,.....................................................    7
Application of the remedy...................................    4
Asthma,.................................................11,25
Bilious complaint and indigestion.............................   14
Bite of mad dogs,.........................................   13
Bites of musquitoes, gnats, and various other insects,  ...........   14
Bites of poisonous reptiles,...................................   13
Boils and  abscesses,.......................................   15
Bowels, inflammation of.....................................    8
Brandy and Salt, how to be prepared,........................    4
Brandy—French only to be used,.............................    3
Bruises....................................................12, 20
Burns and scalds,........................................    9
Cancer,   ...................................j........10,18,26
Cases cured by  the remedy....................................   17
Chilblains,.................................................    9
Cholera,....................................................    8
Cholera Morbus,.........................................   26
Cholic..................................................    7
Colds and coughs, .........................................11, 29
Consumption, and inflammation of the lungs,..................   11
Cuts,......................................................   15
Deafness,.................................................    ' 
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 Determination of blood to the head,...........................    6
 Diabetes...................................................  29
 Directions for use,......................•....................    4
 Dizziness in the head,.......................................    5
 Dysentery,.................................................12, 25
 Earache,...................................................    7
 Eruptions,.................................................    7
 Erysipelas, or St. Anthony's Fire,..........................13, 22
 Eyes, inflammation of,.......................................   •  6
 Fevers......................................................   10
 Fits,......................................................   25
 Gall  Stones................................................  16
 Gout,.....................................................     9
 Gravel, ....................................................     9
 Gum-boils,..................................................     7
 Headache,...............................................     6
 Heartburn,.................................................   24
 How to administer the remedy to a child,.......................    4
 Indigestion,................................................16, 24
 Indurated tumours,..........................................   21
 Inflammation,  ..............................................   18
 Inflammation of the eyes,.....................................    6
Inflammation of the brain,..................................     6
 Insanity,..................................................     9
Itch,.............'........................• •................  12
 Jaundice,.................................................15, 28
Liver complaints,...........................................15, 18
Lumbago,.................................................  15
 Mortification,...............................................  14
Nettle-rash,   ............•...................................  25
 Opening medicine,.........................................    5
 Open sores.................................................  20
Pains in the  side,............................................    8 
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Palpitation of the heart,......................................  25
Paralytic attacks,...........................................12, 21
Piles,......................................................  28
Plague,.....................................................  14
Pregnancy,.................................................  13
Pulmonary consumption,................................;....  28
Quinsy,.......................,............................   8
Rheumatism...............................................8, 22
Ring-worms,...............................................  12
Scalds,....................,................................   9
Scrofula,...................................................14,30
Scurvy, ....................................................  12
Sickness at stomach,.........................................  30
Sore throat,...............................................  27
Sores of long standing,....................................  15
Spasms,..................................................  24
Spinal complaints,..........................................  16
Sprains,..............................................12,  19, 21
Stings of wasps, bees, &c,....................................  13
Teeth preserved,.............................................   7
Tic-doloreux and pains in the face,................,............  14
Toothache,.................................................7,27
Whitlow,............................................;......  15
Worms,....................................................  10
Yellow Fever,...............................................  16
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