As those who are the most ignorant are generally the greatest boasters, we find that none of them were more so, than that vain, boasting, paradoxical enthusiast Paracelsus, who had acquired great riches by curing a certain disease with a mercurial ointment, the knowledge of which secret he is said to have stolen from Jacobus Berengarius, of Caipo, in his travels thither.

FOOTNOTES: The art of exciting sleep in persons under the influence of animal magnetism, with a view to obtain or rather extort during this artificial sleep, their verbal declarations and directions for curing the diseases of both body and mind.

We have means of curing at the outset almost all of those diseases which the observance for hundreds of generations of sound physical conditions of life has not extirpated; and in the worst instances our anæsthetics seldom fail to extinguish the sense of pain without impairing intellect.

The art of curing diseases originated, according to Pliny, in Egypt.

The Yorkshire Spaw; or the virtue and use of that water in curing of desperate diseases, with directions and rules necessary to be considered by all that repair thither.

It was popularly believed that the Knights of St. Hubert had the power of curing madness, which, for some unknown reason, never showed itself in a pack of hounds.

Well, say and think what you please; I must let you into my secret follies, in the hope of curing myself in so doing.

Now the fiend is hovering round the fish-curing houses: but turns back, disgusted with the pure scent of the tan-yard, where not hides, but nets are barked; skips on board of a brig in the quay-pool; and a poor collier's 'prentice dies, and goes to his own place.

But, above all, the season for curing the grapes coming on, I caused such a prodigious quantity to be hung up in the sun, that, I believe, had we been at Alicant, where the raisins of the sun are cured, we could have filled sixty or eighty barrels; and these, with our bread, was a great part of our food, and was very good living too, I assure you, for it is exceeding nourishing.

The greatest annual crop, and not the most judicious culture, advances his interest, and establishes his character; and the fees of these land-doctors, are much higher for killing than for curing....

They were doubly horrifiedfirst, at the effrontery of the girl, and second, at the revelation of her real person, for they saw that she was doomed, helpless, bereft of hope, slim beyond all curing.

It fortunately occurred to me, that the guaco, so celebrated for curing the bite or sting of all venomous snakes, might prove equally efficacious in hydrophobic cases.

The Journal Des Reconnaissances Useless gives the following method of curing legs of mutton like ham:It is necessary that the mutton should be very fat.

He thanks her for her great kindness in sending her doctor, Maitre Pierre, whose skill has had so much effect in curing his nephew.

Her delight was curing the parish sick and relieving the indigent.

"Temperance, rather than medicines, is the proper means of curing many diseases.

They averred that black and red pills were being sold by the agents of foreigners under presence of curing disease and saving the world.

There were warehouses and vats for curing the fish, a cooper shop and buildings for sheltering the men.

The weather record for 1760 was kept on blank pages of The Virginia Almanac, a compendium that contains directions for making "Indico," for curing bloody flux, for making "Physick as pleasant as a Dish of Chocolate," for making a striking sun-dial, also "A Receipt to keep one's self warm a whole Winter with a single Billet of Wood."

Because it was named in honour of a negro, Quassia, a drunken doctor, who discovered the virtue of the wood in curing malignant fevers.

The leaves of the plants are used in curing certain ulcers.

The juice of the leaves of the Sephalika tree are used in curing both remittant and intermittent fevers.

There are many more such in public and private libraries, and they are often mere transcripts from printed worksselect assemblages of directions for dressing food and curing diseases, formed for domestic reference before the advent of Dr. Buchan, and Mrs. Glasse, and Mrs. Rundell.

In curing hides of cows for making leather the same method was employed as that used in the south.

Tanning and curing pig and cow hides was done, but Claude never saw the process performed during slavery.