...superstitious observances. Thus, April 11, 1681, he notes — " I took, early in the morning, agood dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo Gratias 4" volumes written with his own hand, but, what most pleased him, he was enabled to write a manual,...

...the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana I find the following extract from the Diary of Elias Ashmole : — " I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir,...my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias ! " " Spiders and their webs," says Pettigrew, " have often been recommended for the cure of this malady."...

...JEncyclopadia Metropolitan/II find the following extract from the Diary of Elias Ashmole : — " I took earlv in the morning a good dose of elixir, and hung three...my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias ! " " Spiders and their webs," says Pettigreiv, " have often been recommended for the cure of this...

...medicine in Dioscorides, approved by Matthiolus, repeated by Aldrovandus." Ashmole says, in his Diary : "I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir,...my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias !" — " Spiders and their webs," says Pettigrew, "have often been recommended for the cure of the...

...given of the former reputed efficacy of pills made of Spiders' webs, &c. Ashmore states in his diary, " I took, early in the morning, a good dose of elixir,...spiders about my neck, and they drove my ague away." It is not an unfrequent practice in some of the isolated villages of the west of France, at the present...

...Tremble and diel Third day never return." Elias Ashmole, in his Diary, April 11, 1681, has entered : " I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck, and drove my ague away. Deo gradas." Russell, in his " History of Aleppo," mentions a charm used by the...

...Elias Ashmole, the founder of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, may be found the following passage: " I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir,...spiders about my neck, and they drove my ague away." Perhaps the elixir—whatever that may have been—had a curative effect; but no boy or girl who reads...

...noted every trifle. He was a believer in astrology and the "occult sciences." One day he writes, " I took, early in the morning, a good dose of elixir,...my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo Gratias." This was less than two hundred years ago. AMONG the specimens of the various modes and materials of...

...popular in England. Brand quotes from the diary of Elias Ashmole, April 11, 1681, the following : " I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir...and hung three spiders about my neck, and they drove the ague away. Deo gratias ! " Indeed, a vastly greater antiquity may be assigned to this absurd practice,...

...superstitions. He writes in his diary, April 11, 1668: "I took early in the morning a good dose of the elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck, and they drove my ague away." He says that the alchemist, if he would succeed, must carry on his labors in secret, and not let any...