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worse on the score of health, I resolved at once, to 

 have recourse to the lancet ; and I forthwith drew 

 twenty-five ounces of blood from roy arm. The 

 operation was crowned with complete success, and 

 I immediately became a new man. 



The fever, cough, and headache went away as 

 though by magic. I found myself competent to 

 attend the procession through the streets of the 

 city, for full four hours ; — but to make all sure, 

 on the following morning, I took an aperient of 

 twenty grains of jalap, mixed with ten grains of 

 calomel ; and this rectified most satisfactorily, all 

 that had been thrown into confusion, caused by 

 the unfortunate midnight dip already pourtrayed. 



Before I close these additional memoranda to be 

 attached to the former autobiographical sketch 

 in the first and second volumes of " Essays in 

 Natural History," I have to describe another 

 mishap of a very dark complexion. 



Let me crave the reader's leave to pen down a 

 few remarks on bone-setting, practised by men 

 called bone-setters, and who, on account of the 

 extraordinary advance in the art of surgery, are 

 not now, I fear, held in sufficient estimation 

 amongst the higher orders of society. 



Every country in Europe, so far as I know to 

 the contrary, has its bone-setter, independent of 

 the surgeon. 



