Anti-Rheumatic Embrocation.
- Sal Volatile, an ounce and a half;
- Laudanum, half an ounce;
Mix—rub the part afflicted Night and Morning, and in the Middle of the Day.
The Reader may have observed, that the Coach Box of the Carriages of many Medical Men is furnished with a Knee Boot, i. e. an Apron like that of a Gig:—this is a comfortable, and, indeed, a needful defence to the Legs and Feet. The Author advises the general adoption thereof to those who use their Carriage much in Cold Wet Weather, and especially recommends it to those Genteel[17] people, who courageously keep their Servants and Horses in waiting half the Night, in bitter cold weather, while they are indulging themselves in the opposite extreme of temperature in Crowded Assemblies.
No Entertainments (as those Midnight Inflictions are by courtesy termed), afford so little satisfaction as
EVENING PARTIES.
All who know you, that are not invited, will take umbrage, and half of those who are, receive the intended Compliment only as their due, and not seldom return it by ridiculing their Host, who, if he is prudent, they will censure for his Parsimony; if he be generous, will rate as a Prodigal.
These (foolish, if they are poor, but if Rich, wicked,) “Fly-by-Nights,”
“Who Sleep till Noon, and hardly live till Night,”
who are unhappy except when in a Crowd, and fancy that they are entitled to pass for folks of exquisite Fashion, in proportion to the degree of fondness that they pretend to exhibit for being Stewed in foul Air[18].