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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 286. 



into lumps, it putrefies, and so sends malignant vapours 

 to the brain, whence men oftentimes lose their senses ; 

 swoundings and suffocations likewise follow, in regard 

 those lumps and clotts of blood growing great, can be 

 neither upwurd nor downward expelled ; whence the pas- 

 sages of the stomach and lungs are clioaked up. But 

 Sennerlus rather conceives it to arise from a consent of 

 the stomacTi, which, whilst it is repleat of this concreated 

 blood, presseth down the diaphragma and lungs, hurting 

 also the orificeof the stomach, which, being nervous, may 

 likewise by consent affect the neighbouring parts that 

 have nerves. However, this is most certain, that it being 

 drank and concreted in the stomach, it must needs affect 

 in a direfiil manner, the stomach being altogether unable 

 to digest it, as is clear from common experience; for "we 

 see the blood of this creature doth glaze, and as it were 

 petrefie the very earth and pavement on which it is spilt ; 

 and it causeth a difficulty in breathing and swallowing, 

 Bending forth much spittle by the mouth, and froathy sub- 

 Stance, pains, and natiseousness in the stomach, swound- 

 ings, faintings, and senselessenesse, and almost such inva- 

 sions as are incident to epilepticks, and at length death 

 itselfi if not timely prevented." — P. 153. 



Next come the remedies, chiefly identical with 

 those proposed by Dioscorides and Pliny ; and 

 then the author proceeds to treat " Of cows' naillc 

 hy some among poysons," not — 



"That it hath any poysonous quality 'more than other 

 milk, which none of the judicious affirm, only that it 

 being coagulated in the stomach, therebj', for want of 

 concoction, obstructing the lower orifice, mesentery 

 veines, &c., causeth many horrible symptomes," &c. 



I shall quote one more passage from this little 

 volume, rather from its curiosity than the proba- 

 bility that any of the fair readers of " N. & Q." 

 may stand in need of the caution which it im- 

 plies : 



"The blood of certs is likewise extreamly pernitious ... . 

 a maid that, by seeing a thief executed publicklj'^, by 

 severing his head from his body, fell into the epilepsie, 

 being extreamly terrifyed by this object, and for her re- 

 covery having frustrately used divers medicaments and 

 prsescripts, was at length perswaded by some of the 

 twatling gossips about her to drink some cafs blood, 

 assuring her it was a present remedy ; but not long after 

 she had followed this mad direction, she degenerated into 

 the nature of this creature, and by fits would mew, leap, 

 scratch, and play as cats use to do, as also, in private, 

 catch mice, and contract herself so as to pass through 

 holes, that nobody else could of her bignesse." — P. 143. 



I must now conclude, having far exceeded the 

 limits I had at first assigned to this question, and 

 perhaps laid myself open to the charge of having 

 indulged in unnecessary and irrelevant digres- 

 sion. My object, however, has not been so much 

 to throw light upon the Tavpov cSfxa of the ancients, 

 as to illustrate, in any way that occurred to me, an 

 oibscure and not uninteresting subject. 



WiLL1:A.M B&TB8. 

 Birmingham. 



where he quotes a passage from Sir H. Halford'a 

 Essays, p. 157., stating that the blood of the bull 

 is not poisonous. The Scholiast on the passage 

 only says : 



" AijArjTTjpioi' Aeyerai to atjua Tov ravpov TTivofxevov" 



P. J. iF. Gantillon. 



I "beg, deferentially, to refer your correspondent 

 L. to Mitchell's note on Ar. Eq. 81, 82. — 



' BeATicrTOf jifiZv atjua raupelov jrietf , 

 'O ©e/AMTTOicAeovs yap BdvaTOi aipeTiirepos." — 



HERAXD:aT THE IINB DANCETTBE. 



(Vol. xi., p. 242.) 



I, like your correspondent Y. S. M., have 

 searched Edmondson without being able to meet 

 with the statement made, on his authority, by the 

 author of the Glossary, who does not himself appear 

 to credit It entirely, as he says, " the old heralds 

 often confound it with ' indented.' " I have looked 

 through several of my books, and certainly the 

 older writers contradict the statement made by 

 Edmondson and the Glossary : e.g., 



1. John Bossewell, Works of Armorie, 1572, 

 gives an example, " Sable, two bars daunsettye 

 d' argent," which agrees with modern blazon ; and 

 what we should now read " a bend indented " is 

 called vivrie. 



2. Gerard Leigh, Accedens of Armorie, 1576, 

 gives an example of *' double daunce," and what 

 we should now blazon " party per fess dancettee," 

 he cfills dented, also lentally. 



3. Sir John Fern, Blazon of Gentrie, 1586, 

 gives a coat which I should blazon "Per fess 

 dancettee or and gules," as " Emaunch of or and 

 gules ; " and a small French work thus describes 

 " Emanche : " 



" Les termes Emanche and Emanch^ ont prisleurs noma 

 des manches des anciens qui etoient fort larges en haut, 

 »e retrecissoient et terminoient en pdntes." 



And indented is distinguished from this as " little 

 pointed teeth, the intervals being dug obliquely, 

 as in a saw." 



4. Guillim, 16S2, gives both, dancettee having 

 larger indents than indented. 



5. J. Seller, Heraldry Epitomised, 1682, gives 

 both dancettee and indented. 



6. Synopsis of Heraldry (supposed by Payne 

 Eisher), 1682. Both are given, but the indents 

 are the same size. 



7. Sessoin, Tresor Heraldique, 1657, makes a 

 distinction, calling the larger indents emanche, 

 and the smaller endente, "Ses pointes sont plus 

 courtes et en plus grand nombre,'' i&c. 



8. Playne, LArt Heraldiqiie^ 1717, calls in- 

 dented danche, dantele, and enderite, and says it 

 differs from vivre, in that the teeth are finer and 

 smaller. Vivre is likened to steps or stairs. ! 



I think these examples from writers previously 

 to 1720 will dispose of the statement. 



It will scarcely be worth while quoting from 

 the later writers, who seem to agree very nearly 



