Take one table spoonful of common salt, and mix it with two tablespoonsful of vinegar and pour upon it a half-pint of water, either hot or cold (only let it be taken cool.) A wine-glass full of this mixture in the above proportions, taken every half-hour, will be found quite efficacious in curing dysentery. If the stomach be nauseated, a wine-glass full taken every hour will suffice. For a child, the quantity should be a teaspoonful of salt and one of vinegar in a teacupful of water.

3735. For Bread Jelly, measure a quart of boiling water, and set it away to get cold. Take one-third of an ordinary baker's loaf, slice it, pare off the crust, and toast the bread nicely to a light brown. Then put it into the boiling water, set it on hot coals in a covered pan, and boil it gently, till you find, by putting some in a spon to cool, that the liquid has become a jelly. Strain it through a thin cloth, and set it away for use. When it is to be taken, warm a teacupful, sweeten it with sugar, and add a little grated lemon-peel.