the bitten part, and slowly and steadily suck it; washing the mouth with cold water every time there is a rest, and the contents are spit out. When cupping glasses are at hand, they should be applied instead of the mouth; in either case, the part, after being sucked or cupped, is to be well rubbed over with lunar caustic, a warm poultice laid upon the place, the limb kept at rest, and, a few hours after the bandage or ligature removed. For the poisonous sting of gnats, bees, wasps, and other insects, a piece of lint, wetted in the pure extract of lead, is all that is necessary to cure one or the other. For the sickness, lassitude, and fainting, that often follow the sting of reptiles, it is requisite to administer ether, brandy, and ammonia, and sometimes opium. MEDICAL AND HOUSEHOLD RECEIPTS. Those receipts with initials and recommendations attached to them have been tried, and are recommended by intelligent Correspondents. It must not be supposed, however, that where such a signature or recommendation is absent, the receipt cannot be relied upon. They are all of the first class. The following recipes for various aperient medicines have been drawn up at our request, by a Medical Gentleman, in consequence of the expression of a want felt by heads of families of simple and safe laxatives, without the cost of an application to an apothecary, or the risk attendant upon taking quack medicines:— SPRING APERIENTS.—For children, nothing is better than:—1. Brimstone and treacle; to each tea-cupful of this, when mixed, add a tea-spoonful of cream of tartar. As this sometimes produces sickness, the following may be used:—2. Take of tartrate of soda one drachm and a half, powdered jalap and powdered rhubarb each fifteen grains, ginger two grains. Mix. Dose for a child above five years, one _small_ tea-spoonful; above ten years, a _large_ tea-spoonful; above fifteen, half the whole, or two tea-spoonfuls; and for a person above twenty, three tea-spoonfuls, or the whole, as may be required by the habit of the person. This medicine may be dissolved in warm water, common or mint tea. This powder can be kept for use in a wide-mouthed bottle, and be in readiness for any emergency. The druggist may be directed to treble or quadruple the quantities as convenient. TONIC APERIENT.—3. Take of Epsom salts one ounce, diluted sulphuric acid one drachm, infusion of quassia chips half an _imperial_ pint, compound tincture of rhubarb two drachms. Half a wine-glassful for a dose twice a day.