Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-22

ousht TO THINK that such humOrS are
wont to move at set hours of the day as
py a certain peculiar motion or tide.
Therefore,, the blood flows from the ninth
our OF the night to the third, hour of
the DAY. Then melancholy the blood flows
from the ninth hour of the night is under
the dominion of phlegm.'
Equally curious is the following on
spirits. which he divides into "aniinall,'
'Nltall' and "%naturall':
The animal spirit hath taken his seat
m the brain. 1t is called animal because
tits the life, but the chief and prime in
thereof. Wherefore it hath a
most subtle and aery substance. This
animal spirit is made and harbored in
the windings and foldings of the veins
and arteries of the brain, brought tlither
sometimes of the pure air or sweet vapor
drawn in by the nose in breathing. The
vital spirit is next to it in dignity and
eSceiiency, which hath it's chief mansion
IN the left ventricle of the heart. The
natural spirit, if such there be any, hath
It's station in the liver and VEINS"
Describing certain juggling and de-
ceitful ways of healing of cures by such
means as fear, surprise, and ever by
music for spider bite. the music causing
the patient to dance so Justify that he
snakes all the poison out of his SYSTEM"
he sums up some of those heroic remedies
thus: Il would not cast the patient head
long out of a window. But would rather
cast them sodainly, and thinking of no
such thing. into a great cistern filled with
old water. with their heads foremost:
neither would take them out until they
drunk a good quantity of water, that
by that sodain fall and strong fear the
matter causing the frenzy might be car
RED from above downward from the noble
parts to the ignoble."
~ medicine upOn which he diIates at
great length is "Mummie." referred to as
the usual remedy for contusions, and he
describes it as follows:
"Mummie is a liquor flowing from the
aromatick embalmens of dead bodies,
which becomes dry and hard,' and being
ground into medicine was administers
either in whole or potion to such as have
faiien from high places, the first and last
medicine of almost all our practitioners
at this day in such a case"
He also gives some grewsome facts
connected With the preparation of 'mum-
ME when he says: Certain of our
French apothecaries, men wondrous au-
daclouS and cOvetOus to steal by night
the bodies of such as We're hanged and
embalming them with salt and drugs they
dried them in an oven SO to sell them
thus adulterated instead of true mummie.
Whereupon we are thus compelled both
foolishly and cruelty to deyour the
manSled and putrid particles of the car
casses of the basest people of Egypt, or
of such as are hanged. as though there
We're no other way to help or recover one
bruised with a fall from a high place.
Il have not thought it fit in his place
he says. 'to omit the industry of 1gicho-
lac Picart. the Duke of Guise, his sur
gcon, who being called to a certain coun-
tlyman to set his shoulder, being out OF
joint, and finding none in the place be.
! sides the patient ana his wife, who Nigh
assist him in this work, he put the patieni
! bound after the aforementioned manner
to a ladder, then Immediately he tyed q
static at the lower end of the liEature
which was fastened about the patients
arm above his elbow. then put it so tyed
under one of the steps of the ladder as
low as he could and got astride thereupor
and state thereon with his whole weigh,
and at the same instant made his wifi,
pluck the stool from under his feet, which
being done the bone presently came into
it's place"
| He also grayely discusses witches ant
witchcraft, the birth of monsters witt
horns, hoofs and wings. ascribinG thei,
birth to the master of evil, and closes
with a lofty %panegeric upon Hippocratcs
and Galen, the princes of physicians.