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tion, if not exactly immortality : it has also beencompared to the fountain of youth, or to thatwonder-working cauldron in which Medea* re-animated with fresh vigour and vitality the agedlimbs of her parent, infusing into his veins awarmer, fuller current.

Nevertheless, although the bacchanalian besteeped in his all-potent liquor as deeply aspossible, and although he be rendered proofagainst all the cares and anxieties that beset usin this mortal passage, — though he bear a" charmed life," and daily inhale new vigourfrom " tired nature's sweet restorer," balmy wine;like him who was dipped in the waters of Styx,he is not all invulnerable, there being ever somelittle spot assailable by the fatal dart of the

* Stripped of its allegorical veil, the fable of Medea is no-thing more than the record of some of those magnificentachievements of certain of the medical profession, which wefind so eloquently narrated in those pithy compositions, hightadvertisements, according to the unpoetical matter-of-fact spi-rit of modern times, so different from that of antiquity; notbut there may be, and undoubtedly is, a considerable degreeof both fancy and invention in those productions.