which is the very thing for a nervous shot, after a day's physic, or on any occasion where he wants a fillip: Sulphate of quinine, 24 grains; Tincture of orange peel, and tincture of ginger of each ounce; Diluted sulphuric acid, 80 drops; Infusion of roses, 15 ounces. N. B.-It requires two or three hours to infuse the roses. No sportsman who is subject to pain in the chest, or severe rheumatism, should be without the "Poor Man's Plaster." STICKING PLASTER. Some court sticking plaster, will enable you to walk in comfort after being galled by a water-boot. I was told by a friend who rarely errs in his prescriptions, that the best cure for the toothache is One tablespoonful of rum, Another of vinegar, And a teaspoonful of salt; mixed together and then held in the mouth. Since the eighth edition, however, I have proved that Eau de Cologne is a better remedy; and as good a dentifrice as the spirit and camphor. If you are obliged to sleep where there are bugs, nothing will keep them off better than taking to bed with you a large piece of camphor. I shall now conclude with the following little hints: First, If you or your dog should, at any time, get a severe blow, let the wounded part be instantly fomented with water, as hot as can be borne, for at least half an hour; and you will thereby reduce your suffering, or impediment from sport, to at least half its duration. Secondly, If you burn yourself in shooting, or otherwise, wrap the part affected immediately in cotton, the application of which it has been proved, acts like magic with a burn. This I was told as a recipe that had been adopted in Paris; and found it to answer extremely well. But on proposing it for insertion here, to an old friend, one of our greatest surgeons that ever lived, he assured me that a better recipe was the constant application of vinegar. Thirdly, if you should take cold, bathe your feet in hot water: if a little salt or bran is, or both are, added, so much the better. Get into a bed warmed, with a little brown sugar sprinkled on the coals; and take some whey, or whatever you can get, to promote perspiration. Fourthly, never fast too long; and avoid, whenever you can, fagging too hard, or when you come to a middle age, you will most likely begin to feel it; and perhaps insomuch as to become nervous, and lose your good shooting. Remember this advice, and see who will last the longest; you who do, or those who do not, follow it. Fifthly, Never go out with quite an empty stomach to wait for wildfowl; particularly in the morning. Should you wish to start before any one is up, you might always have left for you, over night, a crust of bread, or a biscuit, with a glass of milk, which, with a little sugar, nutmeg, ginger, and the yolk of an egg, may be made good in a moment. And this is better than what is called a "doctor" (rum and milk); because you then dispense with taking spirit in a morning, the very bad habit of which should always be avoided, except in a country where the chances of ague might justify your taking a little purl; which, by the way, was recommended to me by one of the first medical gentlemen in the profession. Do not have recourse to any such liquors, unless absolutely required to defend your health against a pestilential climate; or in case of being taken with a sudden chill; when a small quantity of spirit and beer, mixed together, if not thought too disgusting a beverage, might sometimes prove one of the most powerful stimuli to warm you, of all things that an alehouse, or perhaps any other house, could afford. If going out, take it cold; if going to bed, you may have it warm; for in the one case perspiration is as objectionable as it would be desirable in the other. * The late Sir Everard Home, who was kind enough to carefully inspect all the medical directions here given, before they went to press. [Another most simple recipe to prevent all complaints from cold (as well as the toothache) is to keep a few cloves in your mouth. This is all I require in cold or damp; and, for its good effects, will even surpass the habit of chewing tobacco.] Sixthly, Never sit down in wet feet, or with wet clothes on any part of your body; but, if a change is not at hand, keep in motion, or go to bed, till one can be procured. Or, if you want to start again, when refreshed, first wet your feet with either spirits, or essence of mustard, and then be as quick as possible in taking your refreshment. Many people prefer applying the spirit to the inside, instead. This is not so well; because spirit alone always flies to the head; while strong beer, on the contrary, would warm the body. Another word for this edition-if you wish to escape from cold, and to prevent rheumatism, when advanced in life, wear cotton shirts, and have as little as possible to do with linen ones. This is now the general advice in the new school. I shall here conclude, under this head, with the multum in parvo advice of the great Dr. Boerhaave: Keep the body open; the head cool; and the feet warm. Having now mentioned the few things that happen to occur to me, as deserving the small space they would occupy in the baggage of a sportsman, who we all know is sometimes in an exile, where he might die before he could get medical assistance; I shall just note down a few articles as desirable for his comfort, as the foregoing ones might prove for the preservation of hist life; viz. Canastre tobacco, or cigars, A pot of anchovies, A phial of lemon acid, A bottle of the best olive oil. With these ingredients, and half as much knowledge as usually belongs to all our old campaigners, he may perfectly enjoy his dinner on fish, flesh, and fowl, in those wild places where they are most abundant, but where we are the least able to have them dressed in perfection. LIST OF THE LONDON GUNMAKERS FOR 1845. Ashton, T., 15, Great Prescot Street. Baker and Son, 24, Whitechapel Road. Baker, T. K., 1, Stonecutter Street; and Bury Street, St. James's (patent). Barnett, J. E., and Sons, 134, Minories. Beattie, J., 52, Upper Marylebone Street. Beckwith, W. Andrews, 58, Skinner Street, Snow Hill. Bishop, William (agent to Westley Richards), 170, New Bond Street. Blake, J. A. and Co., 253, Wapping. Braggs, Robert, 43, High Holborn. Braggs, Robert, 151, Strand. Cherrett, D., 3, Old North Street, Red Lion Square. Child, William, 280, Strand. Clunn, Robt., 2, Little Portland Street, Great Portland Street. Cogswell, Benjamin, 224, Strand. Collins, James, 115, Regent Street. Cook, John, 6, Well Street, Wellclose Square. Deane, George and John, 46, King William Street. Egg, D., 10, Opera Arcade, Piccadilly. Field, John, Johnson's Court, Lambeth Street, and 61, Leman Street, Goodman's Fields. Fisher, Charles, 8, Princes Street, Leicester Square. Grierson, John, 10, New Bond Street. Grimshaw, Thos., 48, Whiskin Street, Clerkenwell. Groom, Richard, 108, Cock Hill, Ratcliff. Harding, William, 69, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Hassall, John, 2, Mincing Lane. Hegley, William, 274, Gloucester Street, Commercial Road. Hill, John, 76, Tooley Street. Holland, James, 44, Great Prescot Street. Jackson, Thomas, 29, Edward Street, Portman Square. Jackson, Richard, 19, Princes Street, Lisson Grove. Keen, Job, 61, Gloucester Street, Commercial Road East. Leigh, James, Duncan Street, Whitechapel. Ling, William, 61, Jermyn Street, St. James's. London, Edward, 51, London Wall. Long, Daniel, and Son, 8, Old Cavendish Street. |