The medicines of our Anglo-Saxon ances tors were larsrely botanical, bud many were extraordinary and eccentric enough to move our wonder. A favourite remedy was bull's dung in hot water. This was used for a large number of minor complaints. Stones from the maw of young , swallows, provided they were little, and after removal had been carefully preserved irom contact with earth, water, or other stones, were used for pains in the head or eyes, typhus, nightmare, evil dreams, enchantments, and temptation?, etc., three being a dose. Whipping with a whip rn.irle of porpoise hide was a cure adopted for lunatics. The hob blood of a sheep was a preventive in case 3 where a person had inadvertently swallowed any foul creeping thing. Wives were recom mended to take, as extremely beneficial, an occasional sup or two of their husband's blood. Sealskin soles to the shoes drove away gout, they said. To cure the bite of ' hunting spider,' the patient was instructed to make five wounds, four round it and one on ib, collecb the blood in a spoon, and silently throw it over a main road or ' waggon way.' To deprive wolfsbane of its consequences when swallowed, the patient's legs were held above his bead, and numerous cuts made in them, oub of which the poison would, they said, escape with out injuring the patient. To cure tooth ache, a candle was made of acorn mead, henbane seed, and white wax. While this was burning the patient had to hold hig head under a black cloth with his mouth open above tho flame, so that the ' little worms' causing the pain might be suffo cated, and fall out from tba teeth. A more violent remedy to be adopted in the event of this one's failure was to say, ' Argidam, margidam, sturgidam,' expectorate into the mouth of a frog, and drive it away from the house door. A mixturo of yellow ochre, rock-salb, and pepper in equal parts, strained through a cloth, was recom mended as an eye-salve. Swollen eyes were to be cured by placing on the neck a live crab with it 9 eyes put out, taken from water. 