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expin d.cu-ncb the outbreak of the influenza epidemiccolumns of certain journals have been filled withadvice respecting preventives for and treatment of themalady, ranging from contributions bv eminent » * ” *scientists to the suggested employment of homely simples of the “old woman’s cure” order. Our forefathers dealt with the dreaded complaint in a simpler and perhaps equally efficacious fashion. In the course of the serious visitation of influenza in 1782, “charms” were employed to ward it off. From a “Book of Charms,” published by William Adams, of Drury-lane, in the year mentioned, there is t he following specific : “ A Charm for the New French Influenza.—When you first hear the cuckoo, or first see the new moon, take from a yew growing near a running stream a slip, which sew in your waistcoat (if a man), if a woman, your dress. This, with faith in the charm, will preserve you from the iufluenza for a year.” ....... ■■» i —«—mrnmtm«
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London North Middlesex Weekly Standard
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Mar 29, 1895
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