HAUGHMOND ST. CLAIR.

_Quacks._--In the neighbourhood of Sevenoaks, Kent, a little girl was
bitten by a mad dog lately. Instead of sending for the doctor, her father
posted off to an old woman famous for her treatment of hydrophobia. The old
woman sent a quart bottle of some dark liquid, which the patient is to take
twice or thrice daily: and for this the father, though but a poor labourer,
had to pay one pound. The liquid is said by the "country sort" to be
infallible. It is made of herbs plucked by the old woman, and mixed with
milk. Its preparation is of course a grand secret. As yet, the child keeps
well.

Near Whitechapel, London, is another old woman, equally famous; but her
peculiar talent is not for hydrophobia, but for scalds. Whenever any of the
Germans employed in the numerous sugar-refineries in that neighbourhood
scald themselves, they beg, instead of being sent to the hospital, to be
taken to the old woman. For a few sovereigns, she will take them in, nurse,
and cure them; and I was informed by a proprietor of a large sugar-house
there, that often in a week she will heal a scald as thoroughly as the
hospital will in a month, and send the men back hearty and fit for work to
boot. She uses a good deal of linseed-oil, I am told; but her great secret,
they say, is, that she gives the whole of her time and attention to the
patient.

P. M. M.

Temple.

_Burning a Tooth with Salt._--Can any one tell us whence originates the
custom, very scrupulously observed by many amongst the common people, when
a tooth has been taken out, of burning it--generally with salt?

TWO SURGEONS.

Half Moon Street.

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PARALLEL PASSAGES.

"The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of."--_Macbeth_, Act II. Sc. 3.

"These spells are spent, and, spent with these,
The wine of life is on the lees."--_Marmion_, introd. to canto i.

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"The _old_ and true saying, that a man is generally more inclined to
feel kindly towards one on whom he has conferred favours than towards
one from whom he has received them."--Macaulay, _Essay on Bacon_,
p. 367. (1-vol. edit.)--Query, whose saying?

"On s'attache par les services qu'on rend, bien plus qu'on n'est
attache par les services qu'on recoit. C'est qu'il y a, dans le coeur
de l'homme, bien plus d'orgueil que de reconnaissance."--Alex. Dumas,