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KIDNEY, (beef,) Fried.— Chop the kidney with a little veal and ham, and butter or lard. Season as you like with white pepper, cayenne, and salt. To make them into balls add nee flour and yolk of egg. Fry in lard or butter. Dish ; pour the gravy upon them, and serve with toasted bread. KIDNEY PUDDING.— If kidney, split and soak it, and season that or the meat. Make a paste of suet, flour, and milk ; roll it, and line a basin with some ; put the kidney or steaks in, cover with paste, and pinch round the KID KIT edge. Cover with a cloth and boil a considerable time. KIDNEY, VEAL, to Fry.— Chop veal kidney, and some of the fat ; also a little leek or onion, pepper, and salt ; roll it up with an egg into balls, and fry them. Calf s heart, stuff and roast as a beast’s heart, or sliced, make it into a pudding, as directed for steak or kidney pudding. KIDNEYS, Inflammation of. — It is indicated by chilliness and fever, with severe piercing pains, sometimes dull, with a sense of weight over the kidney inflamed. The urine Is very high coloured, and is partially or wholly suppressed, and sometimes it is bloody. Sometimes faintness, nausea, vomiting, hiccup, and relax are present. It may be caused by calculus, external blows, falls, hard riding, &c. Persons of intemperate habits are very liable to diseases of the kidneys. Gin drinkers, on account of the admixture of turpentine with that spirit, often pay dear for their tippling. Treatment. — In severe cases the patient should lie in bed. The bowels should be cleared by gentle aperients and injections. If there is coldness of the surface and extremities, bathe the feet in warm water. Drink decoctions of the diuretic plants ; as, hofsemint, marsh-mallow, broom tops, parsley, pennyroyal, &c. Take also the diuretic drops. Diluents may also be drunk; the best is common barley-water. Make a strong infusion of parsley, 2 parts ; of pennyroyal, 1 part, and cupful of best Hollands gin, and % oz. of sweet nitre, all mixed ; take at 3 times ; it often acts effectually. Externally, apply cayenne pepper simmered in vinegar, and add 30 drops of laudanum. The Rheumatic Liniment will be of great service. To prevent vomiting, drink peppermint tea, with a little bicarbonate of potass. If there is great swelling of the testicle use ice to reduce the inflammation. KING’S CAKE.— The finest flour, s lbs. ; salt, 1 % teaspoonful ; cinnamon, % oz. ; nutmeg, % oz. ; mace, 1 dr. ; all finely powdered. Add 14 ozs. of sugar, and gradually work well into the mass 1 % lb. of fresh butter. Then add 6 eggs, a quart of cream, % pint of good yeast, a % pint of sherry wine, and a tablespoonful of orange water, All must be mixed and kneaded well together. After it has stood a little, knead in 2 lbs. of clean-picked raisins stoned and chopped, and 2 or 3 lbs. of currants. Bake for 3 hours in a gentle oven, wheE baked, rub the surface with white of an egg and rose-water, and sift over it finely powdered sugar. KING’S EVIL.— See Scrofula. KINO. — It is the concrete juice of an Indian tree. It is a powerful astringent similar to catechu. It is applied externally to ulcers, and is used as a gargle for relaxed uvula, sore throat, &c. It is good for relax, whites, and internal bleedings. The dose of the gum is from 10 grains to % dr. ; of the tincture from 1 to 2 drachms.