The history and poetry of finger-rings

by Charles Edwards

[224] Ennemoser’s History of Magic, ii. 488.

[225] Notes and Queries, vii. 153.

[226] Archæologia, xxi. 25.

[227] Notes and Queries, vii. 146.

[228] Ib. 216.

[229] Vol. iii. p. 280, (Ellis’s edit.)

[230] Lupton, quoted by Brande, says: “A piece of a child’s navell string, borne in a ring, is good against the falling sickness, the pain of the head and the collick.”

“Annulus frigatorius. A ring made of glass (salt) of antimony, formerly supposed to have the power of purging.” Gardiner’s Medical Dictionary.

[231] Beckmann’s History of Inventions, i. 46, (Bohn’s edit.)

[232] See also Burton’s Anat. of Melancholy, (1621,) p. 476; Browne, ch. xviii.