[92] ‘The Female Physician, &c.,’ by John Ball, M.D.—London, 1770, pp. 76, 77.
[93] This water, as its name implies, was supposed to be a sovereign remedy for gunshot wounds. It was also called aqua vulneraria, aqua sclopetaria, and aqua catapultarum.
[94] Now called an entire horse, or stallion.
[95] ‘The London Spy,’ ed. 1703, p. 124.
[96] An allusion to the dispensary which the College of Physicians set up in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and which was the subject of Sir S. Garth’s satirical poem, called ‘The Dispensary.’
[97] A seventh son of a seventh son is supposed to be endowed with extraordinary faculties of healing, and many of these quacks pretended to such a descent.
[98] ‘The London Spy,’ ed. 1703, p. 64.
[99] A covering, or gaiter, to protect the legs from dirt or wet.
[100] ‘The Liturgy and other Divine Offices of the Church.’ London, Bosworth, 1880, p. 638.
[101] ‘The Liturgy and other Divine Offices of the Church,’ p. 584.