The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-20 00:00:00

FRENCH PRESCRIPTIONS.

Notwithstanding the proverbial uncertainty of the
female sex, there are two points of certainty regarding a
Frenchwoman, Liz., it you offer her a hook, she will
are the; e any pictures? if you recominahl her a medi-
cine, she will ask, Is it sweet 1' Two pointx of certainty,
such a wavering mental compass, is a degree of con-
stancy quite worthy to rank with the trade•winds !

The French regard our school of medicine with u
tore of contempt and dread which is highly amusing :.
contempt at our supposed inferiority of science, and
dread of the powerful and injurious system of prescrip-
tion, of which they consider calomel, quinine, and
prussic acid to be the fatal graces. The following
curious remedies are all deemed infalnle in Franco for
a confirmed pulmonary complaint ; and any one of them
is considered sufficient to cure consumption, asthma, or
even utroph) :
A glue bath. A warm bath, in which two or three
pounds of fine glue have been dissolved, until the whole
feels adhesive, and leaves a coating on the skin ; taken
every day, and no other sort of ablution allowed !
Tie aromatic Soup, made of chickens filled with
dates, figs, and raisins, and then boiled until the whole
forms an undistinguishable mass of meat and sweet,
which is to be eaten with the soup every two hours.
The mixed flavour of fowl and figs is really un increase
on the horror of the schoolboy trick of recommending
" a sugared oyster."'

Snail-paste, and scolloped Snails.—ln the
of these dainty preparations the snails are boiled in
milk and sugar until the whole forms a jelly when
cold ; it is then cut in pieces like jujubes, and to
be taken constantly. The second-named luxury
is used at table by the healthy as well as
by invalids, as the Eoglish have scolloped oysters or
dressed crab ; and in our country a new French
dish being considered a great prize, who knows but
the following genuine receipt may lead a fashion ?
Collect several dozens of the largest snails, of the
white-shell kind, put them into a covered earthen-
ware vessel to keep them fast and fasting during
twenty-four hours ; then put them in a deep pan full4of
new milk for another twenty-four hours : next give them
another day of tasting in the covered vessel, and on the
fourth day they arc to be shelled, mixed wilds crumbs
of bread, spice, and butter, baked in silver scallop-
shells, and then way be eaten—by any one who has
resolution, or a pulmonary illness !
Lastly may be mentioned the syrope a'orgeat, in
which the French have great faith ; it is the juice
of sweet almonds, prepared with glint and a quan-
tity of sugar, to form a thick syrup ;
teaspoonful of this is mixed with a tumbler
of hot water, and makes a mawkish, sickly, warm think,
which soon palls the invalid, to whom it is unmer-
cifully prescribed (lay and night—a sort of saccharine
Sangrado system. Camphorated cigars and cigars of
stramonium are greatly recommended for teinale patients;
and, in fact, there seems in most of these popular fancies
a sort of struggle after something to astonish, and cu:e
by the effect of imagination.
A contrast to the foregoing is the last new German
whim, a system of universal cure by cold water, copious
draughts of the pure element unadulterated by sugar,
orangedlnwer, orgeat, capillaire, or the many siropos
with which the ma/erie inedica of France meconunodatcs
the female palate, enaVng the gallant sons of Escula-
pins to answer affirmatively the unfai!ing question,
" Is it sweet ?''

AGNES STRICKLAND'S " LIVES or THE
QUEENS OF ENDLA "—We are requested to state that
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is published this
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"Letters Illustra-
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tive of the Court and Times of William addressed
by James Vernon, Esq., Secretary of State, to the Duke
of Shrewsbury'," in 3 vols. Sao.,with Portraits. "No
library of English history (says the Conservative Journal)
can be considered complete without these valuab'e 1 •tters
On Sunday last' a hate having domestica ed
her-
self among some straw, near the. farm-stable of Aga o -
ties, where she was aroused, in the aftecnoni, by the
grunting of some pigs Lhat were prowling about the re-
mises, seeing herself surrounded by carnivorous quadri:-
peth, sho deemed it prudent to shift quarters, bu:, in a,-
tempting this, ,-,ne of the pigs seized her by a hind leg,
while its companions attacked her on every sic and
speedily devoured her. —Aberdeen Herald.
THE SUFFER] ') NG 1 ooß.—To the credit of our
gentry and townspeople generally, the subseriptian, on Sa-
turday night last, aniouto.ed to little short of one thousand
pounds; but so great is the number of families suffel•ing
from want of employment, and who are debarred Crum re-
coiling out-door relief, that the Committee have fJII occa-
sion for a much larger !,,im.--Ch(lten ham lourni.d.
" PLENTY OF FOXES."—Ourfritnds the ktrtners
iu the neighbourhood of Crosthwaite, Lyth, and the Mosses
have often had occasion to exclaim, inure in bitterness
than exultation, "we have plenty of foxes I" We ate
told, that within a very short. period upwards of twenty of
these wily and. ,leS*.rUctive animals have been inipe,terl
front Scotland and Wales, and snugly located in the fast-
nesses of Whitbarrow, from whence they issue whenever
o,.purtut.ity offers, to take a tithe of the contents of the
henrowts, &c. of the poor farmers. This is l!..rdly as it
ought to be. Tile small farmers arc pretty well plucked
by two-footed foxes at home, without bringing a fre,li
po , rtat;on of four-footed ones from a distance. Out of the
sore which have been introduced into the vicinity of
Whitbarrow, only two or three have been captured. One
day last week, no loss than three members of the ftsmily
of Reynard were seen running abreast over Flelsington
Barrows.—A-endul Mercury.
ENGLISH _AT NICE.—The British residents at
Nice have subscribed 2,430 francs for the suff?.rers by the
inundations in the south of France, ano have ;emitted that
amount to the Central Committee through the niedium of
M. Lacroix, English Consul at Nicr., and his Excellency
Earl Grant