. The prescription, therapeutically, pharmaceutically, grammatically and historically considered . prepare the infusionfrom such a leaf a ceremonial mortar is used, one of whichis here illustrated. It is made of brass, beautifully engravedwith eight figures of the gnostic sign, and eight cartouches eachof which contains an inscription—Arabic—with some pious motto,as God is the only physician, Put thy faith in God, Godis willing to help, etc. The photograph on page 256 sIioavssuch a mortar, belonging to my own collection. Not very manyyears ago a writer in a prominent newspaper of St. Louis, re
. The prescription, therapeutically, pharmaceutically, grammatically and historically considered . prepare the infusionfrom such a leaf a ceremonial mortar is used, one of whichis here illustrated. It is made of brass, beautifully engravedwith eight figures of the gnostic sign, and eight cartouches eachof which contains an inscription—Arabic—with some pious motto,as God is the only physician, Put thy faith in God, Godis willing to help, etc. The photograph on page 256 sIioavssuch a mortar, belonging to my own collection. Not very manyyears ago a writer in a prominent newspaper of St. Louis, recom- 256 THE PRESCRIPTION mended as a positive cure for the bite of a rabid or venomousanimal a formula, consisting of a string of senseless letters, whichwere to be written on a piece of paper and swallowed, and a dozenor more citizens, giving their names and addresses, testified to theefficacy of the charm. This formula, the writer said, was an heir-loom in his family, having been given to his great-grandfather orgrandfather by a priest out of gratitude for some kindness donethe The so-called sympathetic remedies are well known: Theremoval of a wart by rubbing it with a newly drawn tooth and thenburying the tooth; curing the bite of a dog by laying on it a fewof the hairs of the dog; and the belief that if ever the dog becomesmad in the future the bitten person will also do so; and the fre-quent demand to have a dog that has bitten a person killed is aremnant of the same superstition. The belief in the influenceof the moon on matters of common occurrence (related to theworship of the Virgin) is still widespread, for many people imagine HISTORY OF THE PRESCRIPTION 257 that if they sleep where the light of the moon falls upon them theywill become lunatics (the very term referring to the moon) or som-nambulists ; that the ripening of fruits and vegetables is influencedbeneficially or otherwise by the full moon, the beliefs in this re-gard not agreeing—that the cut
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