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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. DEC. 31, im

What he really did say was that "/ in this case would resemble the suffix [meaning "prefix"] by which scarpino in Italian (buskin) becomes escarpin in French." And again, "the transformation of zibellino into isabel- line seems not impossible." That is to say that / was prefixed in French, though it was not a French prefix ; which is a hard saying, WALTER W. SKEAT.

Whatever may be the real origin of the 1 prefix in isabelline, the following extract from the Evening Standard of Wednesday, 14 December, p. 1, col. e, shows that another textile - name derived from zibellino is in vogue at the present day : " left for their honeymoon tour, the going-away gown being of white zibaline cloth." H. 2.

NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRONUNCIATION (10 th S. i. 508 ; ii. 256, 317, 393). YORKSHIRE- MAN seems to assume the pronunciation of his county must be the true standard English, while we of the South venture to hold a different opinion. Perhaps he gives himself away when, quoting the plain words of PROF. SKEAT, he says, "I cannot understand such a remark." Surely he will not contend that the first letter of the alphabet has but one sound that of a in pay, say, &c. in even Yorkshire ! When he says that ah (i.e., a in father) "is not a Northern English vowel- sound : it is much too Southern, much too continental, much too foreign," pile is a little amused. The eminent authorities referred to by PROF. SKEAT teach us that the English of Alfred is that on which correct modern speech is based. If this be so, it is un- necessary to discuss the question further. F. T. ELWORTHY.

DOG-BITE CURE (10 th S. ii. 428). The belief in rue as both anti-pestilential and antidotal for poison, especially for the bite of a mad dog, probably arose from the ancients be- lieving that mithridate, in which rue has a principal share, possessed this virtue. Hence the adage, "Salvia cum ruta faciunt tibi pocula tuta." In Salmon's * London Dispen- satory,' 1676, it is said to "expel all manner of Poison, helps the biting of mad Dogs, stinging of Serpents, and Wounds made by other venomous Beasts" (p. 97).

"Made into tea, it is drunk with advantage to cure hysterics. Fits in infants are often cured by

the syrup Boerhaave strongly recommended it

as a cure for bad eyes. If taken as tea in the morn- ing, he says, and the vapour of it be received by the eyes, the vision will be improved, and all disease of that organ removed. And the author of this work has several times, with himself and others, cured the most violent inflammation of the eyes by the vapour of boiling water alone : so much for the

probability of this practise with rue, as reported by the great Boerhaave!" 'A New Herbal,' by Robert J. Thornton, M.D., 1810, pp. 434-5.

Garlick

"made into an electuary with Honey cuts open'

Obstructions, and resists Poyson : it kills Worms^

and helps the Biting of all Venomous Beasts,.

inwardly taken and outwardly applied.'' Salmon's ' London Dispensatory,' p. 1.

'"An infusion of an ounce of bruised garlic in a pound of milk was the mode in which Kosenstein exhibited it to children afflicted with worms."- Thornton's ' Family Herbal,' 1810, p. 342.

It was asserted that whoever took a proper quantity of mithridate in the morning was insured from poison during the whole of that day (Galen, *De Antidot.' lib. i.). See further Dr. Heberden's 'AvTi6fy/>iaKa, 1745, quoted in, Dr. Paris's * Pharmacologia,' 1833, p. 42.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

Touching the recipe taken out of Cathrop- Church, Lincolnshire, I found it in a sketch- book, bearing the label of S. W. Fores, in the Cruikshank Collection at South Kensington (No. 10,084). I guessed from the formal nudes in the sketch-book that it belonged to Isaac Cruikshank. To the recipe is added this P.S. : 4l It is added : Many years' expe- rience has proved that this is an effective* cure." W. H. CHESSON.

BREAD FOR THE LORD'S DAY (10 th S. ii. 209). I do riot know the book, and therefore I hazard a guess with great diffidence. But it is possible that there is an error through some misreading of an abbreviated refer- ence. The book " against Bread " may have been "against Brere wood," who was a con-- temporary writer on the "Sabbath" ques- tion. See'D.N.B.' W. C. B.

George Abbott was the son of Sir Morris Abbott, the youngest brother of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. He was born in 1604^ and elected Probationer Fellow of Merton^ ollege, Oxford, in 1624. He died on
 * February, 1648, and was the author of

he following works, from which your corre- spondent may obtain the information he requires : * The Whole Book of Job Para- ohrased' (London, 1640); 'Vindicise Sab- thi ' (London, 1641) ; * Brief Notes upon the Whole Book of Psalms ' (1651).

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. [The ' D.N.B.' says the writer of the books named was not the son of Sir Morris Abbot.]

WITHAM (10 th S. ii. 289, 333, 474). Thanks to the kind helpfulness of your corre- spondents, it is now clear that Wit-ham as a place-name and With-am as a river-name are differently sounded, and are therefore "ndependent words.