534 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
edible at the top, and making a very excellent antiseptic 
flavouring. 
Among herbal simples the “ Poor Man’s Garlic, or “ Jack by 
the hedge,” (Erysimum allium), occurs as a well-known roadside 
variety of the Onion plant tribe, growing in wild and luxvriant. 
abundance throughout the whole English summer. It is 
distinguished by brightly green, glossy, heart-shaped leaves, 
which when bruised emit a strong odour of garlic; also by 
headpieces of small white flowering bunches. This homely 
plant has been of popular use as a savoury accompaniment of 
a poor man’s bread and cheese, from quite early times; it also 
bears the name “ Sauce-alone.” When gathered fresh, and 
boiled separately in its own juices, it makes an excellent addition 
to boiled mutton, and is of antiseptic virtue, with slightly 
aperient effects which are easy, and not griping. Our fore- 
fathers valued the same modest herb highly for its anti-scorbutic 
usefulness. “The antients,” says Evelyn, “employed ‘ Jack 
by the hedge’ as a succedaneum to their scordium.” 
OPEN AIR TREATMENT, or Putmonary Consumption, (See O1Ls— 
Cop- Liver). 
Burt, as says an old adage, ‘* You may lead a horse to the water, 
yet you cannot make him drink.” A clergyman who is in the 
habit of taking dwellers in London slums down into the country, 
by fifties, in breaks, for summer holidays about the green fields 
and gardens, was dismayed on the party drawing up one evening 
at the entrance to their alley, after one of these outings, to hear 
one of them say, as if giving voice to the general sentiment, 
‘* The country’s fine for a ’oliday, mates, but arter all this smells 
like ’ome.” As regards the hereditary bias of tubercular con- 
sumption, it cannot be expected that this can be eradicated in one 
generation even by the recently adopted, and highly efficacious 
treatment of destroying the microbes which specialize the disease 
—by high altitudes, open, fresh, cold air, abundant sunlight, and 
most generous feeding. 
“ Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret, 
Et mala perrumpet, furtim fastidia victrix.” 
So says the well-known Horatian maxim; and as yet modern 
medicine has only modified the “usgue’? to ‘‘s@pe.” It may 
