The exterior callosity with which the flesh of purples is covered, beaten up, unites the sinews, even when they have been severed asunder. It is a good plan, for patients suffering from tetanus, to take sea-calf's rennet in wine, in doses of one obolus, as also fish-glue.[1] Persons affected with fits of trembling find much relief from castoreum,[2] provided they are well anointed with oil. I find it stated that the surmullet,[3] used as an article of diet, acts injuriously upon the sinews.