MR. AUGUSTUS ST. JOHN, in the very pleasing Journal of his residence in Normandy, says, that upon praising a plough which he saw there as an exceedingly neat implement of its kind, the farmer was pleased at the compliment, and replied, "She goes well, Sir." "It was the first time," says Mr. St. John, "I had observed that a plough is of the feminine gender; but my friend seemed to be a kind of an amateur, and spoke of his plough with as much affection as a true bred sailor speaks of his ship, or Sancho Panza of his ass, Dapple."-P. 18.

COMPARE Hutchinson, vol. x. p. 294-5, with W. Whiter.

"Tu que vas

Por este mundo inconstante
Mira que el que va delante
Avisa al que va detras."

Lope de Vega, vol. 17, p. 218.

"R. ALEXANDER aliquando proclamavit, Quis est, qui cupit diu vivere? Quis est, qui cupit diu vivere? Statimque congregati sunt et venerunt ad ipsum omnes qui fuerunt in mundo, dixeruntque, da nobis vitam." Upon which, he preached to them from Psalm xxxiv. 13, 14, 15.- Avoda Sara. p. 157.

THE angel of death is all over eyes, “totus quantus sit oculatus."-Ibid. p. 163.

LIFE of BEATTIE, vol. 1, p. 406, composure toward death accounted for. Vol. ii. p. 259, Dr. Campbell's death, a beautiful and valuable fact.

due siano uno, intendo, peroche l'amore unisce tutti due gli amanti, et gli fa uno; | ma quattro a che modo? Phi. Trasformandosi ognun di loro nell' altro, ciascuno di loro si fa due, cioè amato et amante insieme; et due volte due fa quattro, si che ciascuno di loro è due, et tutti due sona uno et quattro."-Leone Medico (Hebreo) Dialogi di Amore, p. 132.

"Si vous entendiez, respondit Tyras, de quelle sorte par l'infinie puissance d'amour, deux personnes ne deviennent qu'une, et une en devient deux, vous connoistriez que l'amant ne peut rien desirer hors de soymesme. Car aussi tost que vous auriez entendu comme l'amant se transforme en l' aimé, et l'aimé en l'amant, et par ainsi deux ne deviennent qu'un, et chacun toutesfois estant amant et aimé, par consequent est deux, vous comprendriez, Hylas, ce qui vous est tant difficile, et avoueriez, que puis qu'il ne desire que ce qu'il aime, et qu'il est l'amant et l'aimés ses desires ne peuvent sortir de luy mesme."-Astrée, p. ii. tom. 3, p. 452.

"Ir is a matter of dispute what is the principle of individuation in men: or what it is which causes one man to be a different individual person from another."—JENKIN, Reasonableness, vol. 2, p. 397.

A FATHER and son are one person.Pama Cayet. Coll. Un. tom. 55, p. 42.

CHARRON, p. 46-7. For a moral turn,— SMITH'S Sermons, p. 119.

CHEV. DU SOLEIL, vol. 3, p. 80.

The infanta Lindabrides writes to him, "lors que je me ressouviens de ce que vous avez esté envers moy, et ce que vous estes maintenant, je ne peux croire autre chose sinon qu'il y a au monde deux Chevaliers qui s'appellent du Soleil, et que vous estes autre que celuy qui souloit estre mien."

"DIODORNE Said, and Monboddo believes, that in Taprobana the inhabitants have their

THE podagric unguent of the "“ so much famed Franciscus Jos. Borrhi," was made up of almost all the parts of a stag. It was inferred, from the supposed longevity of this animal, that nature had stored it with a balsamic preservative salt in a greater proportion than most other creatures, and therefore that all its parts, even the excrementitious one, were endued with medical virtues. A physician of Jena, Joh. Andrea Gratz by name, wrote a treatise upon this, entitled Elaphographia, sive Cervi Descriptio Physico-Medico-Chymica.-Ibid. pp. 281-2.

"THE parliament of Paris, at the solicitation of the Parisian physicians (among whom Guy Patin was the most conspicuous), prohibited the use of antimony in medicine. This restriction, after some years, was removed; but it was a long time indeed before the French physicians could get the better of their prejudices, or rather of their timidity, in regard to the employment of those active remedies which are derived from the chemical preparations of this and other metallic substances, and which give to the practice of physic a vigour and efficiency that it formerly wanted."-Ibid. p. 596, N.

upon

MARTIN LISTER describes a cimex of the largest size, of a red colour, with black spots, as to be found in great abundance henbane. "It is observable," he says, "that that horrid and strong smell with which the leaves of this plant affect our nostrils, is very much qualified in this insect, and in some measure aromatic and agreeable; and there we may expect that that dreadful narcosis so eminent in this plant, may likewise be usefully tempered in this insect; which we refer to trial."-Ibid. pp. 602-3.

the Chinese physicians in finding out by their touch, not only that the body is diseased, (which, he said, was all that our practitioners knew by it,) but also from what cause or from what part the sickness proceeds. To make ourselves masters of this skill, he would

"ISAAC VOSSIUS commended the skill of

have us explore the nature of men's pulses, till they became as well known and as familiar to us as a harp or lute is to the players thereon; it not being enough for them to know that there is something amiss which spoils the tune, but they must also know what string it is which causes that fault." -Ibid. vol. 2, p. 63.

"OUR foresters," says SIR G. Mackenzie, allege, that when deer are wounded, they lie on a certain herb which grows plentifully in our forests, and that by its virtue the bleeding is stanched, and the wound healed. | I took a quantity of it, and reduced it to a salve, with wax and butter. Its effect was, that it healed too suddenly, so that I durst not venture to use it for any deep wound, but for superficial scars it has a very sudden operation. It is the Asphodelus Lancastriæ Verus of Johnstone; or the Lancashire Asphodel.”—Ibid. p. 227.

JOHANNES BAPTISTA ALPRUNUS, physician to the Empress Eleonora, in A.D. 1670, at Prague, lanced a plague-boil in one of his patients." Having conceived that the way for him to penetrate into the most latent quality of this pestiferous venom was by chemistry; not with knives, but glasses, -not with iron, but fire,-I collected the virulent matter, and putting it in a retort, and luting a receiver to it very close, I ap

plied degrees of fire. At first came over a water, then a more fat and oily matter, and at last a salt ascended into the neck of the retort. The fire being removed, and the glasses separated, there came forth so great

The discovery is subsequent to the old edition of GERARDE by JOHNSON, where it is sta. ted, "it is not yet found out what use there is of any of them in nourishment or medicines:" P. 97. No scholar, but knows the Dictamnus of VIRGIL. Æn. xii. v. 411; Cf. Cic. de N. D. ii. 50. BISHOP HACKET says in the Christian Consolations, which were long given to Jeremy Taylor, "The hart wounded with an arrow, runs to the herb dittany to bite it, that the shaft may fall out that stuck in his body:" vol. i. p. 129. Ed. Heber.-J. W. W.

a stench that a thousand wounds exposed to the summer heat could not have equalled it. And though I thought I had sufficiently armed my senses against it, that is, my ears with cotton, my nose with pessaries, my mouth with sponges, all dipt in vinegars and treacles, yet, as if touched with a thunderbolt, I was struck with a violent trembling of my body. Having broken the glass, I gave some of this horridly-stinking salt to to M. Reshel to taste, and then I tasted it myself, and it was found to have an acrimony as great as aqua regis." To this acrimony he ascribed all the phenomena which occur in the plague.—Ibid. p. 491.

THE same physician thought he preserved himself by setons in the groin, thinking that the venom would find its way into his system, and that the safest course was thus to open a way out for it.-Ibid. p. 492.

A SADDLER'S daughter at Burford had an imposthume which broke in the corner of

one of her eyes, out of which came about thirty stones, splendid, and as large as pearls. -Ibid. vol. 3, p. 81.

MEDICINE among the Egyptians wholly built upon astrological or magical grounds. They thought the heart increased two drachms in weight annually till men were 50 years old, then decreased in the same

proportion, so that no one could live beyond of 100.-Ibid. p. 681.

the

age

DR. ARCHIBALD PITCAIRN endeavoured, after Borelli and Bellini, to account for the principal phenomena, natural and morbid, which occur in the animal body,—upon mathematical principles !—Ibid. vol. 4, p. 46. See the passage.

A GIRL with horns on various parts of her body.—Ibid. vol. 3, p. 229.

CLAWS instead of nails.-Ibid. 4, p. 176.

A BOY three years without eating and drinking.—Ibid. vol. 6. p. 459.

CASSINI saw a Russian at Florence who during two different years in his life had in his body an electrical virtue similar to that of the torpedo.-Monthly Review, vol. 66, p. 500.

SIR JOHN FLOYER in his Pharmacobasanos, or Touchstone of Medicines, attempted to account for their virtues by their taste and smell.-Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 4, p. 458.

M. DE CHERAC, who was first physician to Louis XV. maintained that it is as much the duty of a physician to enforce discipline to the sick, as of a general to enforce it in an army.-Ibid. p. 497.

LINIMENTS for the itch " may be made agreeable enough, and of a good smell, as particularly is that compounded of the ointment of orange flowers, or roses, and a small quantity of red precipitate."-DB. MEAD. Ibid. vol. 5, p. 4.

WHEN the small pox is epidemical in the main land over against Skie Isle as in the isle itself, the natives bathe their children in the infusion of juniper wood, and they generally escape; when this is neglected they often die.-Ibid. p. 379.

PEARLS prescribed, to all those that are able to pay for them.-Ibid. p. 366. Gold and silver also.—p. 368.

MANY Swallowed the stones of sloes and cherries, thinking they would prevent any danger of surfeit, or indigestion from the fruit.-Ibid. vol. 6, p. 253.

DODDRIDGE relates that a clergyman's lady, whose husband was of some eminence in the literary world, in a frenzy after a lying in (which was quickly removed) found during the time of it such an alteration in the state and tone of her nerves, that though she never had before nor since any ear for music, nor any voice, she was then capable,

THERE were two kinds of Usnea Humana, the crustacea et villosa; the former was most esteemed, and any of the crustacean lichens, but more properly the common grey-blue pitted lichenoides of Dillenius. The villosa was a species of the genus hypnum; any moss that happened to grow on a human skull was thought efficacious.Ibid. vol. 40, p. 252.

THE cup moss was long accounted a specific for hooping-cough. Willis had great faith in it.-Ibid. p. 255.

STRICT laws, vigilantly enforced, preserved New England from the small pox generally, Boston excepted, where it struck root, 1649, and was often epidemical.—Ibid. vol. 12, p. 229.

FAMILY at Maryport (the Harrises) who could not distinguish colours.-Ibid. vol. 14, p. 143.