a preparation of common oats, recommended by many of the German physicians in all hectic disorders, to be taken with broth of snails or crayfish.—It is made by boiling a large quantity of oats, with the husk taken off, with some hawthorn shavings, and currants together, with a leg of veal cut to pieces, and with the bones all broken; these are to be set over the fire with a large quantity of water, till the whole is reduced to a fort of jelly; which when strained and cold will be very firm and hard. A few spoonfuls of this are to be taken every morning, diluted with a basin of either of the above-mentioned broths, or any other warm liquor.