. The guide-board to health, peace, and competence ; or, the road to happy old age. vedon Luthers prescription, for it has discovered that a chickensplit open, and applied while warm, is of sovereign efficacy insimilar cases. The thing that cures is not the stuck frog northe divided pullet, but keeping the parts soothingly moist andwarm for some time without disturbance. A poultice madeof flax-seed or bread and milk would have all the virtues ofthvi frog or the chicken, with the no small advantage of beingmore instantly available. It would require some considerablehunting to secure three frogs
. The guide-board to health, peace, and competence ; or, the road to happy old age. vedon Luthers prescription, for it has discovered that a chickensplit open, and applied while warm, is of sovereign efficacy insimilar cases. The thing that cures is not the stuck frog northe divided pullet, but keeping the parts soothingly moist andwarm for some time without disturbance. A poultice madeof flax-seed or bread and milk would have all the virtues ofthvi frog or the chicken, with the no small advantage of beingmore instantly available. It would require some considerablehunting to secure three frogs in New Yoik, or anywhere, inmidwinter, and as for our chickens, they are all dead a longtime airo, lonij enoui^h to giow very tender. The great Bi:;hop Berkeley, one of the most accomplishedand best educated men of the age in which he lived, wrote abook concerning the virtues of tar-water, advocating itsefficacy in coughs, colds, and consumption, dropsies, fevers,and small-pox. Some people made fun of the bishop, but heconfidently appealed to time and observation. But time is a. MEDICAL FANTASIES. ,215 slow coach for the bishcp, as a hundred and ten years havefailed to certify his theory. One day the bishop was takensuddenly ill, but he hadnt a bit of tar in his house, and be-fore any could be had, he — died. It was a great over-sight that, not to have had two or three barrels of tar stowedjnvay in his house to meet emergencies. Bacon believedthat the application of ointment to a weapon which inflicted awound, was more efficacious than if it Avere applied to thewound ilself; and the great Boyle believed that the thigh-t ineof a criminal who had suffered deatli was a cure for someI)Owel affections, which indeed is a fict, with this limitation:any other bone of any other man, brute or beast, if burnedand pulverized, would have been equally efficacious ; quite asefficacious as a remedy once uttered in our hearing: Achickens gizzard well boiled, then burnt to a cinder, thenfinel
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