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healthy and most agreeable nectar, and one of the most powerful extinguishers of thirst ever discovered. The author has tested it and knows whereof he speaks. It settles by standing and becomes as clear and pure as champagne. I have taken a glass of it when very thirsty, ice-cold, as above mentioned, and the relief would be so perfect I would not think about drinking again for 2 or 3 hours. The properties of the tamarind are very peculiar, as it contains not only small quantities of sugar, but pectic, citric, tartaric and malic acids, and also the bi-tartrate of potassa; is nourishing, refrigerant (cooling), calmative and laxative; hence its great value in fevers. But, of course, to prepare it for a drink in fevers, you
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