136 Random Recoi^IvECTions of the 



rum as an indispensable recuperative after 

 their labours. But about the hapless bull? 

 There's no record as to what offence he had 

 committed. 



The ancients had much to say about hard 

 drinking, and the dire effects of polyposium, 

 and the manner of preventing them. Pliny, 

 in particular, contributes to our information : — 

 " If colewort be taken fasting, it preventeth a 

 man from drunkennesse ; and eaten after 

 meate, when a man is drunken iudeede, it 

 riddeth away the fumosity of the brain, and 

 bringeth him to be sober. The soupe a I'oignon, 

 onions boiled in water and poured upon bred, 

 is reckoned in France as a specific against 

 headache and nausea which attend upon a 

 bibaster from the effects ah histerno vmoP 

 Again : '' Is a man disposed to drink freely 

 and sit square at it, let him before he beginne 

 take a draught of the decoction of rue leaves, 

 he shall bear his drinke well, and withstand 

 the fumes that might trouble his brains." But 

 Horns, King of Assyrians, seems to have 

 arrived at the acme of inebriate research when 

 he devised the following : — '' Mark this experi- 

 ment : A barbie drowned in wine, or the fish 



