little phial from the shelf, and bless the hour in which you spent
your shilling; for as Eusebius declares, '_Verbum personale concordat
cum nominativo_, which is as much as to say, the active will grow old,
and suffer from pains in their limbs. Who, then, has pains in his limbs,
or lumbago? Who, indeed, can say that he will not have them?"

After this appeal, the number of those who had pains in their limbs, or
who wished to provide against such a disease, proved so great, that all
our phials were disposed of, and the doctor was obliged to promise that
in a few days he would have some more of this invaluable medicine ready.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now offer to your notice a valuable
plaister, the effects of which are miraculous. Dionysius, come hither,
you have felt the benefit of this plaister; tell your case to those who
are present, and mind you tell the truth."

Hereupon Timothy stepped forward. "Ladies and gentlemen, _upon my
honour_, about three weeks back I fell off the scaffold, broke my back
bone into three pieces, and was carried off to a surgeon, who looked at
me, and told the people to take measure for my coffin. The great doctor
was not there at the time, having been sent for to consult with the
king's physicians upon the queen's case, of _Cophagus_, or intermitting
mortification of the great toe; but fortunately, just as they were
putting me into a shell, my master came back, and immediately applying
his sovereign plaister to my back, in five days I was able to sit up,
and in ten days I returned to my duty."

"Are you quite well now, Dionysius?"

"Quite well, sir, and my back is like whale-bone."

"Try it."

Hereupon Dionysius threw two somersets forward, two backward, walked
across the stage on his hands, and tumbled in every direction.

"You see, gentlemen, I'm quite well now, and what I have said, I assure
you, _on my honour_, to be a fact."

"I hope you'll allow that to be a very pretty cure," said the doctor,
appealing to the audience; "and I hardly need say, that for sprains,
bruises, contusions, wrenches, and dislocations, this plaister is
infallible; and I will surprise you more by telling you, that I can sell
it for eight-pence a sheet."

The plaister went off rapidly, and was soon expended. The doctor went on
describing his other valuable articles, and when he came to his
cosmetics, &c., for women, we could not hand them out fast enough. "And
now," said the doctor, "I must bi