The inside of the throat is to be constantly gargled with salt and water.

Let those which only warble long, And gargle in their throats a song, Content themselves with Ut, Re, Mi: Let words, and sense, be set by thee. 'Lawes': an eminent musical composer, who composed the music for Milton's Comus. 'Noy': Attorney-General to Charles I., had died in 1635.

If your Germans can show us anything comparable to what I have transcribed, I would almost undergo a year's gargle of their language for it.

At fashionable tables, men and women in gorgeous clothes, who speak four or five languages, actually rinse their mouths and gargle at the table, and then slop the water thus used back into these bowls.

L. E. D.The expressed juice, or a decoction of these roots, has been recommended in calculous complaints, and as a gargle for infants in aphtous affections or excoriations of the mouth; and a poultice of scraped carrots has been found an useful application to phagedenic ulcers, and to cancerous and putrid sores.