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wives to his hospital that he had to build two additions. He did 

 not put the liver and the heart of a fish on embers of incense: in- 

 stead of valerian, which O. W. Holmes called calmer of hysteric 

 squirms, he used ungebrannte Asche/* and Asmodeus was zvith a 

 vengeance sent post to Egypt, there fast bound. 



9 This has about the same meaning as our phrase a rod in a pickle, French 

 title raclee, une voice de coiips de baton. Cf. Grimm's " Worterbuch," vol. 

 I, p. 581 {ein Priigel wird z'olkniiissig umschrieben diirch ungebrannte Asche) 

 and Sanders, p. 50**. 



