. The land of the Dons. e part of the practitioners calledin to operate on him; and when we remember theweary martyrdom endured with exemplary resigna-tion by this drop-chinned, pale-faced, kingly ener-gumen, we cannot but confess that, pathologicallyspeaking, they had secured the very best of probing the patients intellect, it was discoveredthat on the 3rd of April, 1675—the very year of ourManuals imprimatur—a spell had been administeredto him in the form of chocolate, mingled with partsof an executed malefactor : with the brains, to deprivehim of his government; with the entrail
. The land of the Dons. e part of the practitioners calledin to operate on him; and when we remember theweary martyrdom endured with exemplary resigna-tion by this drop-chinned, pale-faced, kingly ener-gumen, we cannot but confess that, pathologicallyspeaking, they had secured the very best of probing the patients intellect, it was discoveredthat on the 3rd of April, 1675—the very year of ourManuals imprimatur—a spell had been administeredto him in the form of chocolate, mingled with partsof an executed malefactor : with the brains, to deprivehim of his government; with the entrails, to deprivehim of his health ; and with the kidneys, to deprivehim of the power of procreation. But in the wordsof the proverb, ^^ para todo hay remedio, menos para lamuerte.* So there was in this case. The knifeliketongues of Pedro de Matilla and Froilan Diaz, of JuanRodriguez and Tom as de Rocaberti worked prodigiesof ecclesiastical cure upon that ailing brain, as well * Everything can be remedied, except ^ To face p. S06.) (From ti iihotofiraph by Laurent, Madrid, from the portrait by Carreno de Miranda.) CHAR-LES THE SECOND. THE PAST OF THE PRESENT. 307 as the prescription of Alvarez de Argiielles. Heis sadly infected, said this latter. It is a miraclethat he is alive. Let him be given, before he breakhis fast, a half cuartillo of oil, with the benedictionof exorcisms; let him take abundant exercise and ablessing be pronounced on all he eats and is dHarcourt who recalls another of the royalmedicines—the stale of cows—* the gilded puddlethat beasts would cough at ; nor should we forgetthe nurses gathered round that ghastly sick bed—Casilda and the nuns espirituadas of the goodArgiielles, and Maria or Ana Diaz, that lived in theCalle Mayor and was the mother of children. Enough of these experiments in surgical andmedical Christianity ! It is impossible for the eyeof the uninitiated to examine, as well as for his pento write of them. Poor Charles
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