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AN I MAL SIMPLES.

Be off : and eure your own blotcbed skin,Vom- läutern jaws and legs so tliin !Nor tbink to take your betters in

By bare assurance!If doetor's skill can aught avail,Himself should seem streng, stout, and bale :J3ut you are puny, weak, and pale

Past all endurance !

Now get you gone ! Your game is done !Leave me to find some sporting fun;For J still niean of many a ruu

To be tbe hero!' Throw physic to tbe dogs ' say I ;And vvhen tbey follovv in füll cry,My Maxim sball be tili I die

' Dum spiro, sjjero.' "

With respect to the cxtent to which medical scienceStands indebted to Tnsects. Say Kirby and Spence, "ACentury ago this would have made an amjple history."Amongst scores of infallible panaceas the Wood Lousewould have been commended as a solvent and anaperient; powder of Silkworm for vertigo and convul-sions; Millepedes against tbe jaundice ; Karwigs tostrengthen the nerves; powdered Scorpion for thestone and gravel ; Fly-water for disorders in the eyes ;and the Tick for erysipelas. Five Gnats would havebeen prescribed as an excellent pnrge ; Wasjis asdiuretics ; Lady-birds for the colic and measles ; (In;Cockchafer for the bite of a mad dog and the plague ;likewise Ants, with their aeid, as incomparable againstleprosy and deafness, also strengthening the memory,and giving vigorous animation to the whole frame.

"But thesegood times are long gone by! Nevertheless,it should be observed that men are apt to run from oneextreme to the other! From having ascribed too muchefficaey to insect reniedies we may now credit them withtoo little ! Many insects emit powerful odours, some ofwhich produeo extraordinary effects on the human