5i6] FLY not suTficH-ntjy ventilated. The easiest method of preventing such damage, is that of suspending the joints in a meat-safe, or a wooden frame surrounded by close wires, so that the flies may be completely excluded, and the air stiil allowed to perflate the whole ratus. An op n and cool situ- ation, however, ought to be chosen for this repository. — Those families which are not provided with this at >tic contrivance, nwy occasionally preserve joints of meat for several days, even in summer, by wrapping them in clean linen • osly moist; iied with good white-wine vinegar, placing chem in an earthen pan, and chang- the cloth once or twice a day . ra weather. — See alsoFwESH-
I Y. the Catch, or Campion, 'Silene, L. a numerous genus of plants amounting to 03 species, eleven of which, are indigenous. Kfohe ot" these have hitherto been employed to any other useful pur- pose than that of serving as p., - turage for cattle. There is, how- ever, one remarkable species of this plant, namely, the nutans, or Nottingham Catch-Fly, that grows on dry or hilly pastures and walls, produces root-leaves on short leaf-stalks, forming a close turf; and bears white flowers in June or July, which are eagerly visited by hi i then fore, be cul- tivated with advantage, in situa- tions where these industrious crca- ■ FLY, the Spanish, usually call- ed by the plural name of cantka* tidi i, ) ut pro, , .i: g, is a chafer of a • < . lour, a blue ish shade, ting an un- til narcoti< i dour. This in- tect is the Melo'e vesicatprious } L, FLY which preys on the leaves of (ho common lilac, Syringa vulgaris, L. privet, Ligustrwm vulgare, L. com- mon ash, Fraxinus excelsior, L. and other trees, though it seldom ap- pears in our climate. — Having al- ready stated various substitutes for this foreign drug, under the head of Blister, and cautioned the reader against its indiscriminate application, we shall only add, that the internal use of this medicine, even in very small doses, is ex- tremely precarious, and ought, therefore, to be abandoned. — Ex- ternally, the tincture of Spanish fly has often been employed with advantage as a rubefacient, by merely rubbing indolent swellings; or, the powder, as an ingredient in plasters, which ought, however, to contain but a very small portion of this powerful stimulant. FLY-STRUCK, a disorder pecu- liar to sheep, which is occasioned by a fly that settles and deposits its on them, and very materially injures the quality of the fleece. In order to remove this malady, it has been recommended to cut off* the wool, as far as it is infected, and to pour a few drops of the fol- lowing mixture in a circle round the maggots, produced from the flies, to prevent their esoape. — ■ Dissolve half an ounce of corrosive sublimate in 2 quarts of rain-water, to which a gill (| of a pint) of spirits of turpentine should be add- ed. When this compound is pour- ( d on the: back of the diseased ani- mal, in the manner ahoe directed, the shej herd ought to drop a little among th< maggots, and rub them about with his linger: in conse- quenceoi which, they will be im- iately destroyed. — Anoth< medy") alter clipping I be w oi to rub die parts infected with k
