together with 212 buckets of cold water; suffering the whole to stand 24 hours. When the juice of the berries is sufficiently extracted, the liquor must be drawn off, and boiled in a copper, being carefully skimmed during the ebullition. A due portion of hops is then to be boiled with a little of the wort; incorporated with the whole; and, as soon as it becomes lukewarm, the yeast ought to be added in the usual manner. When the fermentation ceases, the beer should be poured into a barrel containing a little isinglass; and carefully closed with a bung.—Such beverage is very salubrious and aromatic; but, as it ferments more tardily than common malt liquor, it is apt to become sour: hence, M. Alopæus advises only a small quantity to be brewed at a time.
K.
KILBURN-WATER, is a saline mineral fluid, obtained from a spring at Kilburn-well, about two miles from the end of Oxford-street, London.
This water was formerly in great repute, but is at present seldom employed. Nevertheless, it promises to be serviceable in cases of habitual costiveness, where powerful laxatives would be productive of dangerous consequences; as it may be used with safety, till the intestines have recovered their natural tone. It may farther be advantageously taken by persons of sedentary lives, who are peculiarly subject to hypochondriasis, indigestion, and other disorders arising from relaxed habits. The dose is from one to three pints, which should be drunk at short intervals, till it produce a purgative effect: and, as its operation is very slow, it appears to be eminently calculated for persons, whose stomachs are delicate ot impaired.
L.
LACKEY-MOTH, or Phalæna Bombyx Neustriæ, is a species of moth that commits great depredations on fruit-trees; around the branches of which it deposits numerous eggs; that exhibit the appearance of a necklace. These are very hard, and adhere closely to the bark; so that it becomes necessary to remove them by a knife; care being taken to spare the bark as much as possible. Next, the composition and powder mentioned in the article Tree (p. 238 of this vol.), must be applied to every part which may have been wounded by the instrument.
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