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THE WATER BABIES :Herrwiggius his "Incomparable drink for madmen."

Only they could not find out what it was.


 * Suffumigations of the liver of the fish * *

Only they had forgotten its name, so Dr. Gray could not well procure a specimen.


 * Metallic tractors.
 * Holloway's Ointment.
 * Electro-biology.
 * Valentine Greatrakes his Stroking Cure.
 * Spirit-rapping.
 * Holloway's Pills.
 * Table-turning.
 * Morison's Pills.
 * Homœopathy.
 * Parr's Life Pills.
 * Mesmerism.
 * Pure Bosh.
 * Exorcisms, for which they read Maleus Maleficarum, Nideri Formicarium Delrio, Wierus, etc.

But could not get one that mentioned water-babies.


 * Hydropathy.
 * Madame Rachel's Elixir of Youth.
 * The Poughkeepsie Seer his Prophecies.
 * The distilled liquor of addle eggs.
 * Pyropathy.