Ancient Rome and Modern Italy 75 



Queries, Ser. 5, III (1875), 345-346; cf. W. G. Black, Folkmedicine, 36-37. 

 Replaced alive in the river, it gives the disease to the other fish, as is shown 

 by their coming to the surface to cough: Notes and Queries, Ser. 5, IX (1878), 

 64-65. A Pennsylvania German prescription to stop an infant from slobbering 

 is to pass a small fish through its mouth and then return it alive to the water: 

 E. M. Fogel, op. cit. (see note 24), 269, no. 1399; one to cure a child's whooping- 

 cough is to put a live trout into its mouth while fasting and then return it to 

 the stream: op. cit. 270, No. 1399; 329, No. 1805. For use of a fish in dentition: 

 314, No. 1672. 



304 Z. Zanetti, Nonne e bambini, 27 ; A. De Nino, op. cit., V, 128. 



305 C. .Grisanti, Usi, credenze, proverbi e raconti popolari d' Isnello, 144; J. B. 

 Andrews, op. cit. (see note 236), 42. Kissing a negro is supposed to cure a 

 Pennsylvania German baby of whooping-cough, E. M. Fogel, op. cit. (see note 

 24), 337, no. 1791. It is not done in our Southern states. 



™*N.H. 28.66; cf. 28.91; 28.163; 28.244. 



307 G. Finamore, op. cit. (see note 5), 67; 69. The old Roman and the 

 modern Italian prescriptions make us wonder at the possible connections with 

 them of the similar Pennsylvania beliefs and practices: E. M. Fogel, op. cit. 

 (see note 24), 38, No. 50. 308 Z. Zanetti, op. cit. (see note 304), 16; La 

 medicina, 139. Let the dermatologist who has no faith in this at least remember 

 how old such ideas are: cf. Plin. N.H. 28.109; 28.185. 



309 G. Amain, op. cit. (see note 191), 61; A. Balladoro, "Alcune credenze e 

 superstizioni del popolo Veronese", Archivio, XVIII (1899), 125; M. Pasquarelli, 

 op. cit. (see note 4), XVI, 52 ; G. B. Corsi, op. cit. (see note 207), X, 31 ; J. B. 

 Andrews, "Quelques croyances et usages napoletains", Archivio, XVIII (1899), 

 41. For a highly amusing account of its administration: A. De Nino, op. cit. 



(see note 66), V, 173-174. Why mice, boiled or roasted, are a prescription of 

 English folkmedicine not only for bedwetting but also for whooping-cough and 

 measles, is a question I must leave with my readers. Cf., e.g., for the first use: 

 Notes and Queries, Ser. 1, II (1851), 435 ; VI (1852), 311 ; for the second: Ser. 

 1, I (1850), 397; II (1850), 197; 510; Ser. 2, VIII (1865), 145; 4, II (1868), 

 220; III (1869), 216; for the third: Ser. 1, I (1850), 430. The prescription 

 among the Pennsylvania Germans for incontinence of urine is fried mouse or 

 mouse pie: E. M. Fogel, Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans, 

 281, No. 1480 and 1483. An alternative is to eat a little sausage made of the 

 pudendum of a pig: 282, No. 1482. These obnoxious diets might have to last 

 a long time, since enuresis is hard to cure. Punishment avails little: G. Sellew, 

 op. cit. (see note 259), 399; H. R. Litchfield, op. cit. (see note 280), 1767-1769. 



310 N.H. 30.138. On the numerous remedies derived from mice: G. B. Dawson, 

 Healing, Pagan and Christian, 105-106. Instead of eating mice, a child could 

 have roasted hippocamps or take certain other fish in his food: N.H. 32.109, or 

 the bladder of a hyaena, so prepared as to be drunk in wine: N.H. 28.103. 



311 M. Pasquarelli, op. cit. (see note 4), XVI, 54; A. De Nino, op. cit. (see 

 note 66), II 25-26; cf. 75; G. Finamore, op. cit. (see note 5), 67; 122; G. Pitre, 

 op. cit. (see note 86), 24. 



312 N.H. 30.42-43; 30.61; 30.64; cf. Marcell. De Medicamentis 27.33; 27.123; 

 29.35. 



