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ОглавлениеAlleged Cure for Hydrophobia.—From time to time articles have appeared in "N. & Q." as to the cure of hydrophobia, a specific for which seems still to be a desideratum.
In the Miscellanea Curiosa (vol. iii. p. 346.) is a paper on Virginia, from the Rev. John Clayton, rector of Crofton in Wakefield, in which he states the particulars of several cures which he had effected of persons bitten by mad dogs. His principal remedy seems to have been the "volatile salt of amber" every four hours, and in the intervals, "Spec. Pleres Archonticon and Rue powdered ana gr. 15." I am not learned enough to understand what these drugs are called in the modern nomenclature of druggists.
C. T. W.
Epitaph at Mickleton.—The following inscription is copied from a monument on the north wall of the chancel of Mickleton Church, co. Gloucester:
"The Ephitath of John Bonner
Heare lyeth in tomed John Bonner by name,
Sonne of Bonner of Pebworth, from thence he came
The : 17 : of October he ended his daies,
Pray God that wee leveing may follow his wayes
1618 by the yeare
Scarce are such Men to be found in this shere
Made and set up by his loveing frend
Evens his kindesman and [so I] doe end
John Bonner, Senior. Thomas Evens, Junior
1618."
The words in brackets are conjectural, the stone at that point being much corroded.
Balliolensis.
Charade attributed to Sheridan.—You have given a place to enigmas in "N. & Q.," and therefore the following, which has been attributed to R. B. Sheridan, may be acceptable. Was he the author?
"There is a spot, say, Traveller, where it lies,
And mark the clime, the limits, and the size,
Where grows no grass, nor springs the yellow grain,
Nor hill nor dale diversify the plain;
Perpetual green, without the farmer's toil,
Through all the seasons clothes the favor'd soil,
