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GOLD.
" Among metals,"
(which are, according to Aristotle, " Meteorites "), " there is none
fairer in sight than Gold ; also, in virtue there is none so effectual
as Gold." Plato saith it is more temperate, and pure than other metals.
For, it hath virtue to comfort, and to cleanse superfluities when
gathered in bodies. And, therefore, it helpeth against leprosy, and
meselry. (Recently, when Miss Viola Tree was attacked with measles, Sir
F. Burnand wrote amusingly to her father, " Very sorry to hear of Miss
Viola's illness. However, measles is (are) one (or more) of those
things that flesh is heir, and heiress to ; and I trust that the attack
will not be severe, but run its normal course, and leave your daughter
(as soon as possible) better than ever. It is a cowardly distemper,
coming in the plural, and attacking a defenceless unit. The case,
however, can never be singular." " Ours, being a large family, we had
the measles divided among five children all at once, a measle apiece.
This lightened the attack, but increased the doctor's bill."—" I
doubt," said David Copperfield, " whether two young birds could have
known less about keeping house than I, and my pretty Dora did. We had a
servant, of course. Her name was Paragon. Her nature was represented to
us, when we engaged her, as being but feebly expressed in that name.
She was a woman in the prime of life ; of a severe countenance ; and
subject (particularly in the arms) to a sort of perpetual measles ! " "
She had a cousin in the Life Guards, with such long legs that he looked
like the afternoon shadow of somebody else."
Three parts of sulphur, and three of caustic potash,
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