DANIELIS WILHELMI TRILLERI, Clinotechnia Medica Antiquaria, A. D. 1776. An elaborate work concerning the method of the ancient physicians, who constructed beds of different kinds, for the different kinds of diseases under which their patients laboured. -Ibid. vol. 55, p. 310. A.D. 1776. MYERSBACH,the German water doctor, had amassed a princely fortune at this time; 200 and 300 persons in a day had consulted him. The three years before, he had not pretended to the slightest knowledge of medicine, being miserably poor, and ignorant; and during his practice, had been hoaxed in the most ridiculous manner. -Ibid. vol. 55, p. 314. "THE ensign of peace, shewing how the health both of body and mind may be preserved, and even recovered, by the mild and attenuating power of a most valuable and cheap medicine. Its singular and most excellent property is to subdue the flesh to the will of the spirit. The continued use of it eradicates most diseases."—Ibid. vol. 55, p. 323. MRS. CARTER says to Mrs. M., A.D. 1773, "I beg you will not neglect to take the millepedes; it is a most excellent medicine for the obstruction you mention in your glands, and besides may be of great use to your eyes."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 210. THE Morlacchian remedy for obstructions is to lay a large flat stone on the patient's belly. They put sugar (when they can find any) into the mouths of the dying, "to make them pass into the other world with less bitterness."-FORTIS, M. Review, vol. 59, p. 42. Ibid. 273. ROZIER's Journal de Physique, July, 1772. tom. 7, p. 85, 12mo. edition, is referred to for an account of Madam Pedegache, who could perceive miners working sixty fathoms under her feet, spied an infant in embrio in her father's cook-maid, as she was waiting at dinner, and for some time directed the operation of the physical tribe at Lisbon, by perceiving through all the integuments, what was passing, and what was amiss, in the inmost parts of the bodies of A crazyish book; water seems to have their patients. been the remedy. DR. BIRKENHOUT translated DR. POMME's Traité des affections vapeureuses des deux sexes, A.D. 1777. His theory was that all hysterical and hypochondriacal diseases are caused by a certain cornuosity of the nerves, which was to be cured by bathing, or rather soaking, for ten or twelve hours a day; this he had ordered during ten months, and sometimes kept his patients twenty-two hours in the water.-Ibid. vol. 57, p. 168. The reviewer says, "he seems to make little difference between cold and warm bathing, as indeed the temperature of the water would be much the same before the operation was finished, whatever it began with." But for the soaking, it is plain that the water must have been kept at a pleasurable degree of warmth. Ibid. vol. 62, p. 514. M. LA PEYER used the burning glass as a cautery, and M. Le Comte, A. D. 1750, surgeon at Arcueil, cured a cancer in the under lip "by the actual cautery of the solar fire." The reviewer formed great hopes from that practice in preference to any other cautery. CHAFING is instantly relieved by the slime of a slug. Mr. Campbell' learnt this from This was a kind friend of Southey's - a friend indeed in his latter days.-It is curious that Southey should not have recollected the verses "In Prayse of the Snayle," in the Paradise of Daynte Devises, "I know Dame Physick doth thy friendly help implore, And craves the salve from thee ensues to cure See Brit. Bibliogr. vol. iii. p. 110. "NEXT to my bootikens, I ascribe much credit to a diet-drink of dock roots, of which Dr. Turton asked me for the receipt, as the best he had ever seen. It came from an old physician at Richmond, who did amazing service with it in inveterate scurvies, the parents, or ancestors at least, I believe, of all gouts."—Ibid. p. 288. "I COULD never yet meet an anatomist who could give me the reason why when I rub my forehead I should sneeze." -Dr. HICKES. Letters from the Bodleian, vol. 1, p. 72. "EVERY distemper of the body now (A.D. 1622) is complicated with the spleen, and when we were young men we scarce ever heard of the spleen. In our declinations now, every accident is accompanied with heavy clouds of melancholy; and in our youth we never admitted any. It is the spleen of the mind, and we are affected with vapours from thence. Yet truly, even this sadness that overtakes us, and this yielding to the sadness, is not so vehement a poison, (though it be no physic neither,) as those false ways in which we sought our comforts in our looser days." - DONNE, to SIR H. WOTTON, p. 134. "FOR Coming thither (to Newmarket) in the King's absence, I never heard of excuse, except when Butler sends a desperate patient in a consumption thither for good air." -DONNE, Letters, p. 289. "AMONG the Samoyeds, girls become mothers at twelve, and even at eleven; childbearing ceases after thirty. The women there are highly nervous, many cannot endure to hear a person whistle, or to be touched unexpectedly, or even to hear any moderate noise or sound without losing their senses, or being much disordered."-Monthly Review, vol. 68, p. 201. "MICHAEL SCHUPACH, a urine doctor in the village of Langnau, Switzerland. In A. D. 1776 he had two ambassadors and seven other persons of distinction among his patients there. They came in such numbers that he was obliged to erect buildings for their accommodation."-Ibid. p. 207. "DR. ZIMMERMANN held that the more sensible a man's nose, the more sensible (sensitive) will be his temperament."—Ibid. p. 210. "WHEN physicians observed that lemons and oranges cured the scurvy, they concluded from analogy that the same effect must be produced by other acids, but after trying vinegar, and the strongest mineral acids diluted, they found them ineffectual, and that the fruit was endowed with some latent virtue which they could not discover nor counterfeit." BLACK.-Ibid. p. 468. "MR. MORLEY quacked his Vervain amulet about A.D. 1783, hanging a piece of the root, tied with a yard of white satin ribband round the neck; but he assisted its operation (it was for scrophulous diseases) with mercury, antimony, hemlock, jalap, &c. baths, cataplasms, ointments, poultices, plasters, &c. This disinterested practitioner says 'many many guineas have been offered me, but I never take any money. Sometimes, indeed, genteel people have sent me small acknowledgments of tea, wine, venison, &c. Generous ones small pieces of plate, or other little presents. Even neighbouring farmers a goose or turkey, &c. by way of thanks."" CURTIS. Flora Lond.— Ibid. vol. 70, pp. 6-7. "SAFFRON posset drink is very good against the heaviness of the spirits;" says Mrs. Arbella in The Committee.--P. 56. PALSY. "Take a fox, uncase him, the bowels being taken out, seethe him in a sufficient quantity of water, and bathe the sick person therein; but yet not before that the body be purged; it is not otherwise permitted."-WIRTZUNG, p. 142. Food. "THE sense of taste is the most necessary of all our senses, it being that by which all animals live, and take in their food and nourishment, and therefore has in it a power to judge what is grateful and convenient to the nature of each kind, what not."ADAM LITTLETON, p. 85; HEZEKIAH'S Return of Praise. RENAUD DE BEAULNE, archbishop of his remarkable appetite; eating Bourges; supplied to him the want of sleep, for he scarcely slept four hours in the twenty-four, and then hunger awoke him.-See the Memoirs of DE THOU, Coll. Mem. tom. 53, p. 240-2. THE prodigious eater of Wittenberg.Monthly Review, vol. 21, p. 339. "SOME choice spirits, to the number of five-and-twenty, agreed to dine at White's, and the orders were, "Get a dinner as expensive as you can possibly make it:" which was punctually performed, and to their great surprise and mortification, they found that the most luxurious dinner amounted to no more than £10 a man. T's served to convince them that eating was . mean paltry enjoyment, and only fit for cits and aldermen, to whom they left it, because it cost so little, and therefore confessed the supremacy of gaming, which they embraced as their summum bonum, for the contrary reason. A.D. 1759."-HULL'S Select Letters, vol. 1, p. 248. EFFECTS of food and climate upon character.-MASDEU, vol. 1, p. 59. IRISH labourers, "when working for others, or not closely overlooked, work in a manner the most languid and indolent; their mode of living, perhaps, totally on vegetable food, produces a general debility, which must have powerful motives to overcome it."-TIGHE'S Survey of Kilkenny; WAKEFIELD, vol. 1, p. 520. IN the church at Arth. is the silver drinking-horn of Charles the Bold, forming with his goblet part of the spoils taken at Morat. The horn is in the shape of a whale; on its ORDER of Blue Stockings. Lives of the scales were recorded the duke's battles, and North, vol. i. p. 61. In the Samoa (Navigator's) Island, where men buy their wives, Williams saw one for whom her husband had given the amazing price of more than 200 pigs, beside a quantity of siapo, or native cloth.-Miss. Enterprizes, p. 538, WILLIAMS. Travels of Cyrus, vol. 1, pp. 72-4. THE Lycians governed by women, and found it the easiest and most convenient form of government. Their queens had a council of senators, who assisted them with their advice. The men proposed good laws, but the women caused them to be executed. The sweetness and mildness of the sex prevented all the mischiefs of tyranny; and the counsel of the wise senators qualified that inconstancy with which women are reproached. HEARNE'S Journey, p. 55. there is a little figure of Jonah within the mouth."-DOWNES's Letters, vol. 1, p. 130. LAMPS in Friburg cathedral "wrought into the form of swords, with an escutcheon attached to each.”—Ibid. p. 206. Rabelais, vol. 8, pp. 388-9. BREVIARIES made to hold liquor, &c. à-la-mode chess and backgammon books. In the Daily Advertiser (A.D. 1754) the public might learn whether Mr. Stephen Pitts was not the best qualified to furnish gentlemen's and ladies' libraries with tea chests in octavo, and close stools in folio. Connoisseur, vol. 1, p. 237. MR. HARVEY, of Ickwell, a village about four miles from Biggleswade (A. D. 1757), whom Perceval Stockdale describes as an old and merry bachelor, living upon an estate of £2000 a year at that time, weighing |
