Arquebusade Water, a medicinal preparation, which has received this name, from its great efficacy in healing gun-shot wounds, though it is, at present, with more propriety, applied to bruises, tumors arising from blows, and particularly to suggillated parts containing coagulated blood.

Various mixtures are used for this purpose, but according to our experience, the following deserves the preference, both on account of the easy manner of preparing" it, and its superior virtues : "Take distilled vinegar and rectified spirit of wine, of each one pound and a half, double refined loaf-sugar, half a pound, and five ounces of common oil of vitriol. This composition, may be applied to the injured parts in a cold or lukewarm state, and the compresses should be kept continually moist, for as soon as they become dry, the pain is liable to return. By its astringent property it contracts the skin ; and the sugar which settles on it, not unlike a coating of glue, ought to be carefully washed off every other, or third day, with Goulard-water. No other remedy is equal to this, if it be properly and timely applied ; but we think it necessary to add, that care must be taken, not to sprinkle or shed any of the mixture on clothes or linen, which would be burnt and destroyed by its cau-sticity. - See Bruises.