The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 323
of eight or ten hours the furnace is foundto be nearly full of melted matter. Iron rakes are then drawn rapidlybackward and forward through the mass in the furnace, in order to compactit, or bring it into an equal state of fusion. It is then allowed to cool,when it is broken in pieces, and carried… … successfully employed in the treatment of scrofula. There seems to beno reason for doubting that this new remedy exerts a very marked influ-ence over scrofulous and adventitious deposits. We have, therefore,numerous and well attested cases of its successful employment in animmense number of…
