pondent of _Notes and
Queries_ speaks of a case in which such a phenomenon actually
occurred; but the experiment is one which would not be very willingly
tried. Brand informs us that "Roasted mice were formerly held in
Norfolk a sure remedy for this complaint; nor is it certain that the
belief is extinct even now. A poor woman's son once found himself
greatly relieved after eating three roast mice!"[165]

_Worms._--A Scotch writer in the last half of the seventeenth century
observed: "In the Miscellaneous MSS. ... written by Baillie Dundee,
among several medicinal receipts I find an exorcism against all kinds
of worms in the body, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
to be repeated three mornings, as a certain remedy."[166]

[122] S. B. Gould, _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_,
p. 273.

[123] H. Morley, _Life of Cornelius Agrippa_, I, p. 165.

[124] M. Thiers, _Traite des Superstitions_, p. 436.

[125] E. A. King, "Medieval Medicine," _Nineteenth
Century_, XXXIV, p. 147.

[126] G. F. Fort, _History of Medical Economy During the
Middle Ages_, p. 72.

[127] J. Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, III, pp. 229 f.

[128] _Ibid._, III, pp. 228 and 237.

[129] T. J. Pettigrew, _Superstitions Connected with ...
Medicine and Surgery_, pp. 94 f.

[130] J. Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, III, pp. 252 f.

[131] E. Berdoe, _Origin and Growth of the Healing Art_,
p. 416.

[132] T. J. Pettigrew, _Superstitions Connected with ...
Surgery and Medicine_, pp. 104-106.

[133] _Pepys' Diary_, I, p. 323.

[134] T. J. Pettigrew, _Superstitions Connected with ...
Medicine and Surgery_, pp. 113-115.

[135] _History of Moray_, p. 248.

[136] _History of Medicine_, p. 159.

[137] J. Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, III, pp. 240 and
248.

[138] I, p. 324.

[139] E. A. King, "Medieval Medicine," _Nineteenth
Century_, XXXIV, p. 149.

[140] T. J. Pettigrew, _Superstitions Connected with ...
Medicine and Surgery_, p. 77.

[141] E. Berdoe, _Origin and Growth of the Medical Art_,
pp. 397 and 414.

[142] E. A. King, "Medieval Medicine," _Nineteenth
Century_, XXXIV, p. 147.

[143] E. Berdoe, _Origin and Growth of the Healing
Art_, p. 327.

[144] T. J. Pettigrew, _Superstitions Connected with ...
Medicine and Surgery_, pp. 84 f.

[145] G. F. Fort, _History of Medical Economy During the
Middle Ages_, p. 196.

[146] J. Brand, _Popular An