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" Then take your fill, 

 Should you he ill, 

 Of what's call'd the fiddle : 



It purifies 



Where itching lies, 

 This I wean's my riddle." TF. S. 



FOR JAUNDICE. 



A live tench applied to the feet for twelve hours, then 

 hurried quitely, or thrown down the house of office ; the 

 patient will soon recover. Don Pernety's Voyage to the 

 Falkland Islands. 



In Gayton's Longevity we have the following lines on 

 fish as an article of food : 



" Fishes are like their element and place 

 Wherein they live, both cold and moist, a race 

 Of flegmatic creatures, yet they are meat 

 Which dry and choleric tempers may well eat ; 

 And those who would look snug, or else snout-fair, 

 May take these liver-cooling dish for fare. 

 In fever'd seasons, and in climates hot, 

 Use them ; but if the beare the helm hath got, 

 Or under Charles his seven-starr'd heavy wane, 

 From this dull nourishment let them refraine. 

 Sweet river-fishes slimy and gross diet 

 Are gibbery, and make egression quiet ; 

 More nourishing than sea-fish, and of these, 

 Those (which the current streams and gravel please, 

 And do abhore annoyances of sinks, 

 Which spoil their channels with their loathsome stinks) 



