The sun., 1908-12-27
WHEN I'LL TRY THESE THINGS.
People Believed In Them ass Years and
They May stin do Good.

A copy 1The London Dispensatory'
by Mich Culpeper. dated 255 years ago,
has come TO light N New York antique
shop. Some Of its theories and pre-
scriptions follow:
"Houpds-tongue cod and dry; against
the biting Of dogs, Some say II you put
the herb under your feet within your
stockings. no dog will bark at you.
Tree ivy is admirable for III effects
coming OF drunkenness and therefore
the poets feianed Bacchus to have his
head bound with them. Your best way
il to boil them In the same liquor you got
your eurfeit by drinking.
"Cowsips strengthen the brain. senses.
and the memory exceedingly, and queil
all diseases there as commissions. palsiss,
DC. t.-
AThe fiech of vipers being eaten clears
the sight. helps the vices Of the nerves
rssists poison exceedingly. neither is
for their billings than the head of the viper
that bit you, bru sed and applied to the
place, and the flesh eaten, you need not
eat above dram at a time, and make it
UP as you shall be taught in troches Of
vipers.
"Earthworms are an admirable remedy
for cut nerves, being applied to the place.
Ear thworms made into o powder and put
into hollow tooth makes it drop out.
"To draw a tooth without pain. all an
earthen crucible full of emmets or ants,
call them by which name you will, eges
and all, and when you have burnt them,
keep the ashes. with which II you touch
q tooth it will fall out.
AEe,s being put into wine or beer and
suffered TO die In 1t, he that drinks it
will never indure that sort OF liquor again.
Grasshoppers being eaten ease the
cholick. Swallow being eaten pre-
serve the sight and preserve from
"A dead mouse dried and beaten into
q powder and given at a time help such
as have diabetes: unieorns horns re;
Of o man that was never buried being
beaten into powder and given inwardly
repels palsies A ring made Of an elks
claw helps the cramp. The froth OF
the sea makes teeth white and helps bald.
ness"
DR.. culpeper deyotes chapter to
metals, minerals and stones:
sGold is temperate in quality, IL wonder
fully strengthens the heart and vital
dThe emerald being worn in a ring
takes away vain and foolish fears, as OF
devils, hobgoblins.. DC. 1t takes away
folly and anger, and 4 It do so, being worn
beaten into powder and taken inwardly
1t viii do much more.
"A diamond is reported to make him
that bears it unfortunate. There is
a stone about tho bigness OF bean found
in the gizard Of an old cock which makes
him that bears 1t beloved. constant and
bold, valiant In lighting. beloved by women
and potent In sports.
1Lapsis calcidonius being hung about
the neck helps melancholy illusions and
melancholy fancies. For the cure of
warts-rub them with fig leaves. bury
the leaves In the ground and the warts
will consume away
DR.. Culpeper gives recipe for prepar-
fSlit them down the middle. he writes,
"and wash them In white wine 90 often
till they be cieansed from their impuri-
ties. then dry and keep them for your
use.'
The book concludes with an apology
by the author:
Elf thou findest me here and there a
little lavish in such expressions as many
like not. i pray pardon that, it Ia my dialect.
] cannot write without It; ! assure
thee IL was not premeditated. II thou
thinkest did II for gain thou are so wide
from the truth that unless thou change
thy opinion tits to be feared that truth
and you viii not meet again for long
time
Il weigh not the Ill Language OF those
that mind earthly things, / wish them
all the richest their hearts can desire,
for they have all their wit already; 'tis
enough for me, that am
pect hereafter In that place whereunto
no earthly minded or selfish man shall
come"