and presently it took away all pain as long as it hung there but
if you left off the bag the pain returned. A bag continueth in
force but a month after so long time you must wear a fresh one."

This, he says, a "person of credit" told him.

HENRY CAMPKIN.

Reform Club, June 21. 1850.


_Cure for Ague._--One of my parishioners, suffering from ague, was
advised to catch a large spider and shut him up in a box. As he pines
away, the disease is supposed to wear itself out.

B.

L---- Rectory, Somerset, July 8. 1850.


_Eating Snakes a Charm for growing young._--I send you the following
illustrations of this curious receipt for growing young. Perhaps some of
your correspondents will furnish me with some others, and some
additional light on the subject. Fuller says,--

"A gentlewoman told an ancient batchelour, who looked _very
young_, that she thought _he had eaten a snake_: 'No, mistris,'
(said he), 'it is because I never {131} meddled with any snakes
which maketh me look so young.'"--_Holy State_, 1642, p. 36.