The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-21 00:00:00

FR ENCII PRESCRIP TION S.

Notwithstanding the proverbial uncertainty of the
female sex, there are two points of certainty regarding a
Frenchwoman, viz., if you offer her a book, she will ask,
are there any pictures if you recommend her a medi-
cine, she s% ill ask, I; it sweet ? Two points of certainty,
io such a wavering mental compass, is a degree of con-
stancy quite worthy to rank with the trade-winds!
ture 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. Tine following
curious remedies are all deemed infallible in Franco for
a confirmed pulmonary complaint ; and any one of them
is considered sufficient to cure consumption, asthma, or
even atrophy :

A glue bat/i. 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 !
The 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 he eaten with the soup every two hours.
The mixed flavour of fowl and figs is really an increase
on the horror of the schoolboy trick of recommendieg
" a sugared oyster."
Snad-pask, and scolloped Snails.—la the first
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 corn:tautly. The second-named luxury
is used at table by the healthy as well as
by invalids, as the English have scolloped oysters or
j 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 full of
new milk for another twenty-four hours : next give them
another day of fasting in the covered vessel, and on the
fourth day they are to be shelled, mixed with crumbs
of bread, spice, and butter, baked in silver scallop-
shells, and then may be eaten—by any one who has
resolution, or a pulmonary illness !
Lastly may be mentioned the syrope d'orgeat, in
which the French have great faith ; it is the juice
of sweet almonds, prepared with gum and a quan-
tity of sugar, to form a thick syrup ; a
teaspoonful of this is mix( d with a tumbler
of hot water, and niakes a mawkisli, sickly, warm drink,
which soon palls the invalid, to whom it is unmer-
cifully prescribed day and night-- a sort of saccharine
Sangrado system. Camphorated cigars and cigars of
stramonium are greatly recommendcd for female patients;
and, in fact, there saems in most of these popular fancies
a sort of struggle after something to astonish, and cure
by the effect of imagination.
A contrast to the foregoing is the last r:ew German
whim, a system of universal cure by cold zuatei• coPit'us,
draughts of the pure element unadulterated by sugar,
orange flower, orgeat, capiliaire, or the many sirc.,”ivi
with which the materia medico. of France accommodat:s
the female palate, enabling the gallant sans of E.cula-
plus to answer affirmatively the unfailing question,
" Is it sweet i'''

.
BitommTAlrts, .1 AN. 19.—Artived, to pass
the winter season, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon
and family, at the Royal Kent Library; Captain Fletcher
and family, of the Ist Guards, and tb, Rev. Mr. Mathias
Edwardliis Botso Fletcher,
and Efsatin.. ily and
at
and family, at Belvedere Cottage ; Captain Teske and
family at Regent Cottage;
family, at Purmont House;
Ogle House ; Mr. Robinson and family, Mrs. Arm•trong'
& at Nelson-place, SLe. &c. T uis fashionable and health
c.
place is now beeeincaigsrieoatxf.a_veulrtitell)Ne.ithloi
behoves pubic.
INDISTINCT INDISTINCT l
p‘t"envdeerryfunllcpainecsetoosftre.lidgitvlisenne
value the imptohratazie3,otfo that
and preserve it, particularly when these means are within
.;..)pli,,cation arc bah de.
and the
(re3s6u.ltos
ldfroßti:nldheistrre.c.t,
rliegaleith(ol and immediately Mt. Soool
do min, nso r(in
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roy. ,
Opticians, &c.
Cheapside), have effected an
examinationf or
o f haveci e
scientific
t i
ri e 0 di-mprovement in Spectacles,
a " patcat," and the strict
ebservers, as well as the all-
pow crful test of personao'l.expiericnce, have established thew
visionsuperiorc
on y
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their
rxacoteffleol
cc:nese: .
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both t e application to irn aired
deirlimapp l p
delightful and instantaneous.
renderlng the most minute refreshingbj.'ctscp'me)rifueecstsi toperfectly
th.e distinct,E. co;
table,
by day or candle-light; in short, their superior powels,
and freedom from the injurious properties of glasses ordi-
narily sold, have secured for them the po7..crful recom-
mendation of Sir B. Brodie, Bart., F. R. S. ; Sir An-
thony Carli.sle, F. R. S. ; Sir J. E. Anderson ; M. D.;
Dr. J. Johnson, Suffolk-place ; Bransby Cooper, Esq.,
F. R. S., Spring-gardens ; Martin Ware, Esat. ; C. Aston
Key, Esq., F. R. S., &c. &c. &u.—E. Solomons and
Co.'s Voice Conductors, when placed in the Ears, -cannot
be seen, and enable Deaf persons to distinguish the faintest
inflections of a distant speaker. Being in no way cue.
fleeted with any other houses in London, and having oc-
casion to guard the public against mistaker, which a.l,jadl
larity of names (aided by various schemes that are resorted
to by empirics) have in several instances occasioned :Emu
disappointment to the incautious, they call particular attcn-
lion to the following address-34j, Old Bond-street/and 4
Old Jewry, "City. ,

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