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capital dietetic combination. It has some tendency to provoke 
urination at night, by reason of which one of its vulgar appella- 
tions has been conferred,— Quasi herba lectiminga, et urinaria.” 
Constitutional struma (as it is called), scorbutic tendencies, 
and scrofula are innate morbid proclivities, more or less identical, 
and varying in degree; they render their subjects especially 
liable to tubercular disease, though it is not the case that all-the 
ailments of scrofulous persons are indicative of, or dependent 
on tubercular deposits. It is against strumous, and scrofulous 
developments, that many of the fresh herbs employed in Salads 
are specially beneficial, this being remarkably the case with 
respect to the various Cresses. The kindred maladies of such a 
nature to which the Watercress, and its allied plants are antidotal, 
get the name of scrofula, from the Latin word “scrofa,” a 
burrowing pig, as signifying the destructive mischief done 
radically to important vital glands within the body by this 
ruinous undermining hereditary disease. Perhaps the quaint 
lines which nurses have been long accustomed to repeat whilst 
fondling the fingers, one by one, of their amused babes, bear a 
sly meaning which imports this bugbear of a scrofulous taint. 
The said familiar distich runs thus as each finger, when handled 
in its turn, is personated as a fabulous little pig: “ The first 
small piggy doesn’t feel well; the second one hastens the doctor 
to tell; the third little pig has to hunger at home ; and the 
fourth little pig can of dinner eat none; then the fifth little pig, 
with a querulous note, cries, ‘Weak! weak! weak! from its 
poor little throat.” 
‘** Egrotat multis doloribus porculus ille : 
Ile rogat fratri medicum proferre salutem : 
Debilis ile domi mansit vetitus abire : 
Carnem digessit nunquam miser porculus ille : 
‘ Eheu,’ ter repetens, ‘ Eheu,’ perporculus, * Eheu,’ 
Vires exiguas luget plorante susurro.” 
About Norfolk the digits are called popularly “Tom Thumbkin,” 
“Willy Wink-in,” “Long Gracious,” “Betty Bodkin,” and 
“Little Tit.” 
In Cogan’s Haven of Health (1589) it was told that * Lettuce 
is much used in Sallets in the summer tyme, with vinegar, oyle, 
and sugar, and salt, and is formed to procure appetite for meats, 
and to temper the heate of the stomach, and liver.” For a 
simple “ Salade & la Francaise” : “Separate the Lettuce, leat 
