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still, to deeply cauterise with a tot iron or a powerful caustic. 

 No other efficacious remedies are known, notwithstanding all 

 that has been said by the inventors of pretended sovereign 

 remedies. 



In 1868 the public journals made a noise about a draught 

 concocted from certain valueless plants ; this, however, was a per- 



Fig. 159. — Land Spaniels. 



fectly ridiculous remedy, resuscitated from the obsolete medical 

 budget of some old woman, and had nothing in its favour to merit 

 public attention save that it had been extolled by a prominent 

 man of the period, M. de Saint-Paul, General Secretary to the 

 Minister of the Interior. 



It could not be said of this remedy, that " if it did no good at 

 any rate it could do no harm." On the contrary, it might have 



