The notice in your last Number respecting the cure of hooping-cough, is a capital example of what has just been stated; and I doubt not but many of your correspondents could supply numerous prescriptions equally scientific and equally effective. On a future occasion, I will myself furnish you with some; but as I have already trespassed so far on your space, I will conclude by naming a few diseases in which the charmers may be expected to charm most wisely and well. They will all be found to come within the category of the diseases characterised above:--Epilepsy, St. Vitus's Dance (_Chorea_), Hysteria, Toothache, Warts, Ague, Mild Skin-diseases, Tic Douloureux, Jaundice, Asthma, Bleeding from the Nose, St. Anthony's Fire or The Rose (_Erysipelas_), King's Evil (_Scrofula_), Mumps, Rheutmatic Pains, &c., &c. EMDEE. April 25. 1850. _Roasted Mouse._--I have often heard my father say, that when he had the measles, his nurse gave him a roasted mouse to cure him. SCOTUS. * * * * * THE ANGLO-SAXON WORD "UNLAED." A long etymological disquisition may seem a trifling matter; but what a clear insight into historic truth, into the manners, the customs, and the possessions of people of former ages, is sometimes obtained by the accurate definition of even a single word. A pertinent instance will be found in the true etymon of _Brytenwealda_, given by Mr. Kemble in his chapter "On the Growth of the kingly Power." (_Saxons in Engl._ B. II. c. 1.) Upon this consideration I must rest for this somewhat lengthy investigation. The word UNLAED, as far as we at present know, occurs only five times in Anglo-Saxon; three of which are in the legend of Andreas in the Vercelli MS., which legend was first printed, under the auspices of the Record Commission, by Mr. Thorpe; but the Report to which the poetry of the Vercelli MS. was attached has, for reasons with which I am unacquainted, never been made public. In 1840, James Grimm, "feeling (as Mr. Kemble says) that this was a wrong done to the world of letters at large," published it at Cassell, together with the Legend of Elene, or the Finding of the Cross, with an Introduction and very copious notes. In 1844, it was printed for the Aelfric Society by Mr. Kemble, accompanied by a translation, in which the passages are thus given.-- "Such was the people's peaceless token, the suffering of the _wretched_." l. 57-9. "When they of _savage spirits_ believed in the might," l. 283-4. "Ye are _rude_, of poor thoughts." The fifth instance of the occurrence of the word is in a passage cited by Wanley, Catal. p. 134., {431} from a homily occurring in a MS. in Corpus Christi College, s. 14.:-- "Men ða leoçes can hep re3þ se hal3a se[~s] Io[~hs] þaep re Hael. eode ofen þone bupnan the Ledpoc hatte, on in[=e]n aenne p[.y]ptun. Tha piste se unlaesde iudas se þe hune to deaþe beleaped haefde."