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FLEISCHER, Leipzig; GRAY & BOWEN, Boston, America.Price 4d.; or in Monthly Parts(in a wrapper.) Advertisements, and Communications for the Editor (post paid) to be forwarded to the Office as above. No. 244. Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts. This Journal is published every Saturday Morning, and is despatched by the early Coaches to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, and other large Towns, and reaches Liverpool for distribution on Sunday Morning, twelve hours before papers sent by the post. For the convenience of persons residing in remote places, the weekly numbers are issued in Monthly Parts, stitched in a wrapper, and forwarded with the Magazines to all parts of the World. REVIEWS Personal Sketches of His Own Times. By Sir Jonah Barrington, Author of The History of the Irish Union,' &c. In 3 Vols. Vol. III. London: Colburn & Bentley. Sir Jonah Barrington is the very prince of story-tellers; he goes right through to the main object: there is no shuffling or equivocating; no pause or hesitation; no bespeaking your credence by asseverations and assurances : he never supposes that a reader would question a gentleman's word, or that any rational being can doubt the simple, unadorned facts that he records. It is true, that some silly people ventured to call the "Bansheen of Lord Rossmore," in a former volume, "a bounce"; and one went so far as to accuse the author of publishing "absolute falsehoods"; but Sir Jonah disposes of the dull cavillers in a dull preface of his own, and then runs on with his garrulous pleasantries, to the heart's content of every reader who has any relish for hearty laughter and a good after-dinner anecdote. It is, of course, not a book to be reviewed and criticised, but to be laughed at and thrown aside. We shall not, therefore, waste another word upon it, but allow Sir Jonah to entertain our readers; and first, let us give them an anecdote or two, illustrative of the state of medicine in Ireland, forty years ago. The Farrier and the Whipper-in. The preliminary part of this story may be very briefly told. Tom White, the whipper-in of Blandsfort, in his eagerness to pull off the scut of a hare, leaped into a gravel pit and broke his back. The faculty conceiving him past all hope of cure, he was handed over to the farrier:- "The farrier first stripped Tom to his shirt, and then placed him flat on the great kitchen table, with his face downward; and having (after being impeded by much roaring and kicking) tied a limb fast to each leg of it-(so as to make a St. Andrew's cross of him) he drew a strong table-cloth over the lower part of the sufferer's body; and tying the corners underneath the table, had the pleasure of seeing Tom White as snug and fast as he could wish, to undergo any degree of torture without being able to shift a quarter of an inch. 6 "Mr. Butler then walked round in a sort of triumph, every now and then giving the knots a pull, to tighten them, and saying, Mighty well,-mighty good! Now stand fast, Tom.' "Tom's back being thus duly bared, the doctor ran his immense thumb from top to bottom along the spine, with no slight degree of pressure; and whenever the whipper-in roared loudest, Mr. Butler marked the spot he was touching with a lump of chalk. Having, in that way, ascertained the tender parts, he pressed them with all his force, as if he were knead ing dough-just, as he said, to settle the joints quite even. "The operator, having concluded his reconnoitring, proceeded to real action. He drew parallel lines with chalk down Tom's backone on each side the back-bone; at particular points he made a cross stroke, and at the tender parts a double one; so that Tom had a complete intended that something should mount by it ladder delineated on his back, as if the doctor from his waistband to his cravat. "The preliminaries being thus gone through, and Mr. Butler furnished with a couple of redhot irons, such as maimed horses are fired with, he began, in a most deliberate and skilful manner, to fire Tom according to the rules and practice of the ars veterinaria. The poor fellow's bellowing, while under the actual cautery, all the people said, they verily believed was the loudest ever heard in that country since the massacre of Mullymart. This part of the operation, indeed, was by no means superficially made them all of a uniform depth and colour, performed, as Mr. Butler mended the lines and much as the writing-master mends the letters and strokes in a child's copy-book: and as they were very straight and regular, and too well broiled, to suffer any effusion of red blood, Tom's back did not look much the worse for the tattooing. In truth, if my readers recollect the excellent mode of making a cut down each side of a saddle of mutton, just to elicit the brown gravy, they will have a good idea of the longitudinal cauteries in question. On three or four of the tender places before mentioned Mr. Butler drew his transverse cross bars, which quite took off the uniform appearance, and gave a sort of garnished look to the whole drawing, which seemed very much to gratify the operator, who again walked round and round the body several times with a red-hot iron in his hand, ragged or uneven parts. This finishing rensurveying, and here and there retouching the dered the whipper-in rather hoarse, and his first roars were now changed to softer notes-somewhat as an opera singer occasionally breaks into his falsetto. "Howld your bother,' said Mr. Butler, to whom Tom's incessant shrieking had become very disagreeable: 'howld your music, I say, or I'll put a touch on your nose as tight as yourself did on Brown Jack, when I was firing the ring bone out of him: you're a greater beast yourself nor ever Brown Jack was.' tine, onion juice, and a glass of whisky; it was kept simmering till it became of a proper consistence for application, and was then laid on with a painter's brush, in the same way they calk a pleasure-boat. Four coats of this savoury substance did the farrier successively apply, each one as the former began to cool. But, on the first application, even the dread of the touch could not restrain Tom White's vociferation. After this had settled itself in the chinks, he seemed to be quite stupid, and tired of roaring, and lay completely passive, or rather insensible, while Mr. Butler finished to his taste; dotting it over with short lamb's-wool as thick as it would stick, and then another coat of the unction, with an addition of wool; so that, when completed by several layers of charge and lamb's-wool, Tom's back might very well have been mistaken for a saddle of Southdown before it was skinned. A thin ash board was now neatly fitted to it down Tom's spine by the carpenter, and made fast with a few short nails driven into the charge. I believe none of them touched the quick, as the charge appeared above an inch and a half thick, and it was only at the blows of the hammer that the patient seemed to feel extra sensibility. Tom was now untied and helped to rise: his woolly carcase was bandaged all round with long strips of a blanket, which being done, the operation was declared to be completed, in less than three quarters of an hour. "The other servants now began to make merry with Tom White. One asked him, how he liked purgatory?-another, if he'd 'stop thieving,' after that judgment on him?-a third, what more could Father Cahill do for him! Doctor Butler said but little: he assumed great gravity, and directed that the whipper-in should sit up stiff for seven days and nights, by which time the juices would be dried on him; after that he might lie down, if he could."" "This indeed was a very useless permission, infancy. So soon as the charge got cold and as the patient's tortures were now only in their stiff in the nitches and fancy figures upon his back, he nearly went mad; so that for a few days they were obliged to strap him with girths to the head of his bed to make him 'stay easy;' and sometimes to gag him, that his roars might not disturb the company in the dining parlour. Wallace the piper said that Tom's roarings put him quite out! "When the poor fellow's pains had altogether subsided, and the swathing was off, he cut one of the most curious figures ever seen: he looked as if he had a stake driven through his body; and it was not till the end of four months that Mr. Butler began to pour sweet oil down his neck, between his back and the charge, which he continued to do, daily for about another month, till the charge gradually detached itself, and broken-backed Tom was declared cured: in truth, I believe he never felt any inconvenience from his fall afterward." "Mr. Butler having partly silenced the whipper-in through fear of the touch, the second part of the process was undertaken-namely, depositing what is termed by farriers the cold charge, on the back of Tom White. However, on this occasion the regular practice was somewhat varied, and the cold charge was nearly boiling hot when placed upon the raw ladder on the whipper-in's back. I saw the torture boiled in a large iron ladle, and will mention the ingredients, just to show that they were rather more exciting than our milk-and-water charges of the present day :-viz. Burgundy pitch, black pitch, diaculum, yellow wax, white wax, mustard, black resin, white resin, sal ammoniac, "A not unpleasant, because not fatal, incibruised hemlock, camphor, Spanish flies, and oil dent may serve to illustrate the state of mediof origanum, boiled up with spirits of turpen-cine and surgery,' between forty and fifty years Another anecdote is too good to be passed over. "Skinning a Black Child. ago, in Ireland. It occurred near my brother's house, at Castlewood, and the same Lieutenant Palmer, of Dureen, was a very interested party in it. The lieutenant having been in America, had brought home a black lad as a servant, who resided in the house of Dureen with the family. It is one of the mysteries of nature, that infants sometimes come into this world marked and spotted in divers fantastical ways and places, a circumstance which the faculty, so far as they know anything about it, consider as the sympathetic effect either of external touch or ardent imagination; or, if neither of these are held to be the cause, then they regard it as a sort of lusus. "A sister of the lieutenant, successively a very good maiden, woman, and wife, had been married to one Mr. George Washington, of the neighbourhood, who, from his name, was supposed to be some distant blood relation to the celebrated General Washington; and, as that distinguished individual had no children, all the old women and other wiseacres of Durrow, Ballyragget, Ballyspellen, and Ballynakill, made up their minds that his Excellency, when dying, would leave a capital legacy in America to his blood relation, Mr. George Washington, of Dureen, in Ireland. "No joy ever exceeded that which seized on Mr. Washington, when it was announced that his beloved wife had been taken ill, and was in excessive torture. The entire household, master included, were just seated at a comfortable and plentiful dinner; the first slices off the round, or turkey, were cut and tasted; ** when Mrs. Gregory (the lady's doctor), who was, in her own way, a very shrewd, humorous kind of body, and to whom most people in that country under thirty-five years of age had owed their existence, entered the apartment to announce the happy arrival of as fine a healthy little boy as could be, and that Mrs. Washington was as well, or indeed rather better, than might be expected under the circumstances. A general cheer by the whole company followed, and bumpers of hot punch were drunk with enthusiasm to the success and future glory of the young General Washington. "Mrs. Gregory at length beckoned old Mrs. Palmer to the window with a mysterious air, and whispered something in her ear; on hearing which, Mrs. Palmer immediately fell flat on the floor, as if dead. The old dames hobbled off to her assistance, and Mrs. Gregory affected to feel strongly herself about something,-ejaculating, loud enough to be generally heard, and with that sort of emphasis people use when they wish to persuade us they are praying in downright earnest, 'God's will be done!' "Sufficient could be gathered to demonstrate that young master Washington had not one white, or even gray spot on his entire body, and that some frizzled hair was already beginning to show itself on his little pate; but that no nurse could be found who would give him a drop of nourishment, even were he famishing all the women verily believing that, as Mrs. Washington was herself an unexceptionable wife, it must be a son of the d-1 by a dream, and nothing else than an imp. "Never was there such a buzz and hubbub in any neighbourhood as now took place in and about the town of Castle Durrow. * "Mr. Washington and the lieutenant were by no means at ease upon the subject of this freak of Nature. **** "Lieutenant Palmer was of course high in blood for the honour of his sister, and Mr. Washington cock-a-whoop for the character of his wife. "The father and uncle decided calmly and properly to lay the whole affair before a consultation of doctors, to know if it was not a regular imagination mark. * * * "All the doctors in the neighbourhood were called in to the consultation. Old Butler the farrier (heretofore mentioned), came with all expedition to Dureen, and begged leave to give his opinion and offer his services, wishing to see Master Washington before the doctors arrived, as he had a secret for turning any skin ever so brown as white as milk! "On seeing Master Washington, however, he cines, or any body else's.* ** declared he was too black entirely for his medi "The first point stated and unanimously agreed on, was, 'that the child was black.' The reasons for that colour being universal on the young gentleman were not quite so clear. At length Dr. Bathron, finding he had the lead, *** declared with great gravity that he had read many authors upon the subject of marks, and could take upon himself positively to assert that the child was (according to all authority on such matters) a casus omissus. The others, not being exactly sure either of the shape, size, or colour, of a casus omissus, thought it better to accede to what they did not comprehend, and all subscribed to the opinion that the child was a casus omissus. * 66 'Dr. Bathron, however, having, by search of old bookstalls in Dublin (whither he went for lated from the work of the high German Doctor the purpose), found an ancient treatise, transCratorius (who flourished in the fourteenth come round again, never fear. Don't be alarm-century), on skinning certain parts of the body What about?' said the lieutenant, bristling up:-'I suppose my mother has taken a glass too much: it is not the first time! she'll soon ed, my friends.' "God's will be done!' again exclaimed the oracular Mrs. Gregory. "What's the matter? What is all this about?' grumbled the men. 'Lord bless us ! what can it be?' squalled the women. "There cannot be a finer or stronger little boy in the 'varsal world,' said Mrs. Gregory: but, Lord help us!' continued she, unable longer to contain her overcharged grief, ' It'snot so-so white as it should be!' ་ "Not white?' exclaimed every one of the company simultaneously. "No, O Lord, no!' answered Mrs. Gre" God's will be done! but the dear gory. little boy is-is-quite black!' "Black! black!' echoed from every quarter of the apartment. "As black as your hat, if not blacker,' replied Mrs. Gregory. "'Oh! Oh-h!' groaned Mr. Washington. to change the colour or complexion, or effectually to disguise criminals who had escaped from prison;-by which means, likewise, disfiguring marks, freckles, moles, &c. might be removed, -decided, that if this could be done partially, why not on the entire body, by little and little, and not skinning one spot till the last should be healed? He therefore stated to Mr. Wash ington, and all the good family of Dureen, that he would take upon himself to whiten the child -as he was perfectly satisfied the black skin was merely the outside, or scarf-skin, and that the real skin and flesh underneath were the same as every body else's. "The mode of operating was now the subject of difficulty. It was suggested, and agreed on, to call in Mr. Knaggs, the doctor of Mount Meleck. *** "The state of practice in Ireland suggested but two ways of performing this notable opera tion-one purely surgical, the other surgico medical: namely, either by gradually flaying with the knife, or by blisters." Most people inclined to the blister, but the doctors, conceiving a blister might not rise regularly, and would, in that case, leave the child piebald, determined, as a first experiment, to try both. Accordingly, "A strong blister, two inches by three, was placed on the child's right arm, and being properly covered, remained there without inflicting any torture for above an hour. The left arm was reserved for the scalpel and forceps, and the operator entertained no doubt whatever of complete success. "The mode he pursued was very scientific; he made too parallel slashes as deep as he could in reason, about three inches down the upper part of the arm, and a cross one, to introduce the forceps and strip the loose black skin off, when he could snip it away at the bottom, and leave the white or rather red flesh underneath, to generate a new skin, and show the proper colouring for a god-child of General Washington. 6 All eyes were now riveted to the spot. The women cried in an under key to Master George, who roared. Hush, hush, my dear,' said the Doctor you don't know what's good for you, my little hocent!' whilst he applied the for ceps, to strip off the skin like a surtout. The skin was tight, and would not come away cle verly with the first tug, as the doctor had expected; nor did anything white appear, though a sufficiency of red blood manifested itself. "The doctor was greatly surprised. 'I see,' said he, it is somewhat deeper than we had conceived. We have not got deep enough.' Another gash on each side; but the second gash had no better success. Doctor Bathron seemed desperate; but conceiving that in so young a subject one short cut-be it ever so deepcould do no harm, his hand shook, and he gave the scalpel its full force, till he found it touch the bone. The experiment was now complete; he opened the wound, and starting back, affected to be struck with horror, threw down his knife, stamped and swore the child was in fact either the devil or a lusus Naturæ, for that he could see the very bone, and the child was actually coal-black to the bone, and the bone black also, and that he would not have taken a thousand guineas to have given a single gash to a thing which was clearly supernatural-actually dyed in grain. He appeared distracted; however, the child's arm was bound up, a good poultice put over it, the blister hastily removed from the other arm, and the young gentleman, fortunately for Doctor Bathron, recovered from the scarification, and lived with an old drynurse for four or five years. He was then killed by a cow of his father's horning him, and died with the full reputation of having been a devil in reality, which was fully corroborated by a white sister." |