occur in scrophulous habits, or are occasioned by acrid humours settling on the part affected; in consequence of which the lips are apt to swell on each side of the wounded spot. When the complaint is attributed to cold, the treatment above stated will generally effect a cure: in scrophulous cases, a course of medicine, adapted to the nature of that disease, can alone remove the external affection. But, where acrid humours are the immediate cause, it will be proper to procure medical advice.—The following salve may, in the opinion of Dr. Shaw, be advantageously applied to the lips, in either of the cases above specified:—Let 2 scruples of the bark of alkanet, and 112 oz. of oil of sweet almonds, be simmered together over a gentle fire; then strain the liquor; add 3 drams of white wax, 1 dram of spermaceti; and 1 scruple of the expressed oil of mace; when the whole should be formed into an ointment.
Lastly, if chaps in the hands originate from scrophula, the treatment suggested for similar affections of the lips may be advantageously adopted; but, where they are occasioned either by cold, the use of hard water, or of soap containing quick-lime, the hands may be anointed with the fat of geese; or rather be managed in the manner stated vol. ii. p. 427.—Should, however, such fissures extend to a considerable depth, and be very difficult to heal, it will be proper to apply digestive ointment, and to treat them as simple wounds.
CHEESE.—Having already detailed various methods of making cheese, that prevail in different countries, we shall complete our account, by inserting the following additional directions for preparing this important article, in domestic economy.
Bath Cheese:—Take 6 quarts of luke-warm new milk, to which should be added two quarts of spring water, and one large table-spoonful of rennet: when the coagulation is completed, which generally takes place in half an hour, the curd must be broken to pieces; then suffered to settle; and, after straining the whey, it should be put into square vats. In the course of an hour, it will be requisite to turn the curd; which operation must be repeated after some hours, or at night; and continued twice every day, till the cheese be fit for the table.
Hafod Cheese:—Let 30 gallons of new milk, and 3 gallons of sweet cream, be mixed with the juice expressed from one peck of picked marigold flowers. An ale-glassful (perhaps 14 of a pint) of sack or canary wine is then to be mixed; and a sufficient quantity of rennet contained in a bag, together with cloves and mace, should be added, in order to coagulate the milk. When the curd is formed, it must be broken very small; and, after carefully expressing the whey, it ought to be put into a cheese vat, covered with a wet cloth, and pressed by the hands. A pound of newly made butter is then to be incorporated with such a quantity of salt as may be required to season the cheese; and, after combining these ingredients with the curd, the whole must again be put into the vat, and treated in the manner above described. Now, the cheese must be submitted to the action of the press; the wet cloths be changed for dry ones, every four hours; and, after having been thus squeezed for 24 hours, it should be placed beneath a smaller weight, and
