Various - Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853

Alleged Cure for Hydrophobia. —From time to time articles have appeared in "N. & Q." as to the cure of hydrophobia, a specific for which seems still to be a desideratum.

In the Miscellanea Curiosa (vol. iii. p. 346.) is a paper on Virginia, from the Rev. John Clayton, rector of Crofton in Wakefield, in which he states the particulars of several cures which he had effected of persons bitten by mad dogs. His principal remedy seems to have been the "volatile salt of amber" every four hours, and in the intervals, "Spec. Pleres Archonticon and Rue powdered ana gr. 15." I am not learned enough to understand what these drugs are called in the modern nomenclature of druggists.

Epitaph at Mickleton. —The following inscription is copied from a monument on the north wall of the chancel of Mickleton Church, co. Gloucester:

The words in brackets are conjectural, the stone at that point being much corroded.

Charade attributed to Sheridan. —You have given a place to enigmas in "N. & Q.," and therefore the following, which has been attributed to R. B. Sheridan, may be acceptable. Was he the author?

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No doubt the author of an ultra-Protestant poem, entitled Times Anatomie, made by Robert Prickett, a Souldier . Imprinted, 1606.