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by him until the beginning of the year 1757, when it was calculated 
that he had consumed no less than 180 pounds of soap, and 
1,200 gallons of lime-water. Yet when an examination was 
made of his body after death by Mr. Sergeant-Surgeon Ranby, 
and Mr. Hawkins, three stones were found in his bladder. 
It was to challenge the memory of old Macklin (who had 
boasted he could learn anything by rote on once hearing it), that 
S. Foote extemporised the following well-known nonsense- 
passage. “‘So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf 
to make an apple pie, and at the same time a great she-bear 
coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no 
soap / so he died, and she very imprudently married the barber ; 
and there were present the Picaninnies, and the Joblillies, and 
the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little 
round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of 
catch as catch can till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of 
their boots.” A (professedly) Eton boy has rendered the same 
in Latin hexameters :— 
** Ut vice pomorum fungantur caule, placentam 
Hortulum adit meditans: immani corpore at Ursa 
Ora taberne infert—eheu, saponis egestas ! 
Hicce obiit dehinc mortem, temeraria at ille 
Omine tonsori levo nupsit: Picalilli, 
Joblillique aderant, cum Garrabulis ; Panjandrum 
pe 154 et ipse aderat, apice insignisque pusillo : 
Ludo captantes captabantur quoque, pulvis 
Calce cothurnorum donec sclopetarius exit.” 
Professor Kirk, of Edinburgh, in Papers on Health, commends 
highly for localized neuralgia to lather the part with Barilla soap, 
which must be genuine (Maclinton’s) as compounded from the ash 
of the barilla plant, growing abundantly in Sicily, in Teneriffe, 
and some parts of Spain. Lather made therefrom does not dry 
on the skin; its composition is a valuable secret. The soap 
requires eight days for its manufacture, and should be stamped 
with the name of makers—Brown & Son, Donoughmore, Tyrone, 
Ireland. This lather will allay the irritation of internal organs 
by application to the skin outside, as, for instance, over the 
stomach when it is rejecting all food, and even when retching 
on emptiness. Handful after handful of the lather (mixed in 
the palm with a shaving-brush, and hot water) should be laid 
on until the required surface is well covered ; then a soft hand- 
kerchief should be put loosely over it. Again, varicose ulcers 
