124 SHAKESPEARE'’S [GALL. 
Gall, 
Let there be gall enough in thy ink. 
‘TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 2, 52. 
Tuere breedeth on the leaves [of the oak] a manner 
thing sour and unsavoury. And physicians call it Gall. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk, xviii. § 134. 
Ir the inner part of the Gall be taken and put on a 
decayed tooth, it allays the pain of it. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. § 206, 
Garlic. 
Mipvsummer Nicut’s Dream, iv. 2, 43. 
Winter’s Tate, iv. 4, 162. 
Men that must needs pass by stinking places, or make 
clean uncleanly rotten places, arm and defend themselves 
with strong sauce of Garlic. Garlic breedeth whelks and 
wounds in the body, if it be laid thereto. And if choleric 
men eat too much thereof, it is cause of madness and of 
phrensy, and grieveth the sight, and maketh it dim. 
Therein is virtue to put out venom, and all venomous 
things. Therefore it was not without cause called Treacle 
of churls. It helpeth best against the biting and venom of 
a wood hound, if it be eaten with salt and nuts, and with 
rue. Smape [i.e., pound or crush; Lat. contero| these 
four together, and give oft thereof to the patient, in the 
quantity of a great nut, and that with wine, and lay the 
same confection to the sore without, for it helpeth the 
wound, and draweth out venom, and wasteth it, and 
keepeth and saveth and delivereth of peril as effectually as 
treacle. Also it helpeth against the biting of an adder, if 
it be stamped and laid thereto with oil of bay. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. § 11, 
Wiru fig-leaves and cummin it is laid on against the 
bitings of the mouse called a shrew. 
Gerard’s “Herbal,” s.0, 
Gartic has so strong a scent that the leopard not being 
able to endure it, runs away. So that if any one rubs 
