most obnoxious. Not only religious (_sic._) and physicians, but
sailors speak highly of it.

"10. The _sedum acre_--wall stone-crop. Used by nuns in Provence for
ulcers and leprous eruptions. It is boiled in six pints of milk until
reduced to three or four pints. For fungous flesh, it promotes
discharge, and destroys both gangrenes and carbuncles. This is found
in abundance on the cottage roofs about Melton Mowbray and
Burton-Lazars.

"11. Celandine--_chelidonium_. Tintern Abbey, about Whitsuntide, is
one large white tapestry of celandine. When I visited Tintern, I was
struck by the lush clustering growth of this flower in 1885. An old
legend says that it is so called because the swallow cures the eyes of
its young of blindness by application of this herb. "Certainly," says
P. Xavier, Franciscan of the Holy Land, "it makes a good lotion for
the eyes of the Leper, and is often used by us in France."

"If I were to add here the history of the _quinquina_, or Jesuit's
bark--is it not told us that the lions drank of a well into which
chincona had fallen, and thus suggested the useful Jesuits' bark, or
quinine?--it would take me into the seventeenth century, and be a
little out of my track; but one word must be added on the girjan oil,
the _dipterocarpus_ of quite modern days, which seems to have great
vogue in Barbadoes. This I do because it is the product of a
magnificent tropical tree, and the hospitals did not forget in the
treatment of Leprosy the use of common trees."

Isolation is the only known effectual way of stamping out the disease,
by its means was the great diminution in the numbers of victims
affected here, by the end of the 14th century, and the almost total
and complete extinction of it in the middle of the 16th century, 1560.

In 1350 at S. Julian's Lazar House, S. Alban's it is recorded that
"the number of Lepers had so diminished, their maintenance was below
the revenue of the institution; there are not now above three,
sometimes only two, occasionally only one."

In 1520 the Lazar House of S. Mary Magdalene, Ripon, founded in 1139,
by Archbishop Thurstan, for the relief of the Lepers of the whole
district, contained only two priests and five poor people to pray for
all "Christen sowlez." Some parts of this Hospital, including the
chapel and its altar _in situ_, remain.

In 1553 at the Lazar House of SS. Mary and Erkemould, Ilford, Essex,
founded by the Abbess of Barking, c. 1190, it is recorded