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the Loadstone of its virtue, and is thc most powerful ofall stones to promote spiritual ecstasy."

•1. Baptist van Helmont, London (1(150), wrote that"a translucid pieec of Amber, rubbed on the jugularartery, on thc band wrists, neav the instep, and on thcthrone of the heart, and then hungabout tbe neck, was amost certain preventative of the plague," the profoundsuccess of which was attributed by Van Helmont to itsmagnetic and sympathetic virtue.

In modern medicine its tincture is given for nervousheadache; also its oil is employed as an embrocatiotiagainst rheumatism, whilst forming the basis of Roach'sliniment for whooping cough.

COWThk Cow, the female of Bos tawus; Vacca, besidessupplying milk for the dairy, with butter and cheeseas its invaluable contingencies, has been supposed fromearly times to exercise several medicinal virtuos by herexcretions. The London Pharmacopceia (1696) orderedan extract of cow düng to be made by taking of newcow düng three pounds, and a strong lixivium (Lye-water) of quicklime nine pounds ; digeat a day anda night, decant, and keep it for use. It will haveall thevirtuos of tincture of cows' düng, with a much greaterpower to sweeten the blood, to take away aeidities andeure the scurvy, insovnuch that scarce any disease isable to stand before it, being continually used as a diel ;the dose from three to five ounces in a glass of fairVvater sweetened with sugar." In ./ Thousand NotableThings it is said that culver-dung Bodden in wine tilithe wine be consumed, and then emplastered hot to thegoul healeth the same perfectly: use it morning andevenirig for four or live days together. Again, the