1 In Ainsli’ Afatt}.-"- I it din. , we toad i«4*{ Toddy is a sweet,
2 aperient. most delicious drink. Taken iVe-1 1 from the tnv, early
3 in tlie morning, before the sun is up, it is certainly a luscious
4 aud most, -jlua ; vnt beverage, cooling, refreshing, and nourishing ;
5 it is besides employed for making Uu: best kind of Indian arrack,
6 anil fields a great deal of sugar, Europeans, especially delicate
7 females, in Indin, wiio are apt to sufibr nmcli from constipation,
8 find : cupful! of this toddy, drank every niorning at five o'clock,
9 one of the simplest and best remedies they can employ. 1 '
10 It mav, perhaps, be of some interest to my readers to cite h m
11 •i passage front a scientific work, unknown to tlie greater part of
12 die public, which may serve as a comment on the above subject.
13 This passage is t ken from Smith’s Encydoptctlia, Vol. III.,
14 . 9!Jg : —“ There is no food which may not be made a medicine
15 in one form or another. Water, bread crumbs, eggs, gelatine,
16 and ospiazome (brown soup), ate thus used. Ami we lin'd-,
17 also, that food, taken improperly or immoderately, mnv hccoi
18 poisoumis ; for inalauc \ flour and sugar, to persons atfected with
19 dinlcfea; bread and potatoes, in scrofula; meat, in cases of
20 lever, &c., &c. Again, as civilisation has | regressed, ae\ cr«l
21 medicaments and poisons have been liscoveml to be valuable
22 for habitual use as dietetics, spices, stimulants, or cosmetics. In
23 fact, there is scarcely any class of medicines which does not
24 afford some aid to our culinary operations, even rosins, acrid
25 poisons, and narcotics not excepted (asafetida, Peruvian balsam,
26 capsicum, saffn n, cherry-laurel, &c.) A certain Tyrolean peasant
27 took arsenic as a stomachic, fur which it has also for a long
28 period been used in veterinary medicine-We enjoy beverages
29 ■ • attaining poison or narcotics, as tea, hops, alcohol, and carbonic
30 acid. The Russian soldiers drank even nitric acid instead of
31 whiskey. Kmpvreturiatie substances, which contain, according
32 to the opinion of Iteiclienbach, t:»e strongest poisons, as creosote,
33 plenum r, and kapnomar, we enjoy in roasted and smoked meats,
34 * n.o i'ii eu-.nsianci' confirms the jjtobabiiity «f the story ol tl.c Atfgli-.n
35 physician, whom T mentioned us habitually rising arsenic; and, .it ill |>.
36 recollected, that He was nlsu aliorse-'tvalcr.tmd thetvfon*likely to lie adjwtdntetl
37 "Mli it* use La veterinary meet trine.