The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries . from Christ), the Woman of Endorwas a dealer with spirits of evil. With us, who have im-bibed truth through a thousand channels made turbid byprejudice and error, she is become a distorted being, alliedto the hags of a wild and fatal delusion. We confound herwith the (fabled) witches of Macbeth, the victims of Salem,and the modern Moll Pitchers. The Woman of Endor ! That is a strange pervers
The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries . from Christ), the Woman of Endorwas a dealer with spirits of evil. With us, who have im-bibed truth through a thousand channels made turbid byprejudice and error, she is become a distorted being, alliedto the hags of a wild and fatal delusion. We confound herwith the (fabled) witches of Macbeth, the victims of Salem,and the modern Moll Pitchers. The Woman of Endor ! That is a strange perversion oftaste that would represent her in hideous aspect. To meshe seemeth all that is genial and lovely in womanhood. Hearken thou unto the voice of thine handmaid, andlet me set a morsel of bread before thee, and eat, that thoumayest have strength when thou goest on thy way. Then she made and baked the bread, killed and cookedthe meat, — all she had in the house, — and Saul did eat,and his servants. FLKS1I VS. SCKIlTUKES. 305 I see nought in this but an exhibition of rare domesticability and commendable hospitality; in the previous act(revelation), nothing more than a manifestation of the power. WEIGHING A WITCH BY BIBLE STANDARD. of mind over mind (possibly the power of God, manifestedthrough her mind?), wherein she divined the object of Saulsvisit, and, through the same channel, surmised who he wasthat consulted her. Witches are said to be light weight. But a little above19 306 A PICTURE. a hundred }ears ago, a woman was accused in Wingrove,England, by another, of bewitching her spinning-wheel, soit would turn neither the one way nor the other. To this shetook oath, and the magistrate, with pomp and dignity, fol-lowed by a great concourse of people, took the woman tothe parish church, her husband also being present, and hav-ing stripped the accused to her nether garment, put her intothe great scales brought for that purpose, with the Bible inthe opposite balance, which w
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