(A charm against cough.) "As a well-sharpened arrow swiftly to a distance flies, thus do thou, O Cough, fly along the expanse of the earth!" (A charm against the demons of disease.) "O amulet of ten kinds of wood, release this man from the demon and the fit which has seized upon his joints!" While reciting the above formula, a talisman consisting of splinters from ten kinds of wood is fastened upon the patient, and ten of his friends rub him down.[133:2] The following translation of an old Scottish incantation against disease is taken from a collection of charms, chiefly of the Outer Hebrides Islands, and included by Alexander Carmichael in his "Carmina Gaelica," Edinburgh, 1900. Peter and James and John, The Three of sweetest virtues in glory, Who arose to make the charm, Before the great gate of the City, By the right knee of God the Son, Against the keen-eyed men, Against the peering-eyed women, Against the slim, slender, fairy darts, Against the swift arrows of fairies. Two made to thee the withered eye, Man and woman in venom and envy, Three whom I will set against them. Father, Son, and Spirit Holy. Four-and-twenty diseases in the constitution of man and beast. God scrape them, God search them, God cleanse them, From out thy blood, from out thy flesh, From out thy fragrant bones, From this day, and each day that comes, Till thy day on earth be done. FOOTNOTES: [111:1] A. J. L. Jourdan, _Histoire de la Médecine_, tome ii, p. 139. [112:1] _Encyclopædia Britannica_, art. "Babylonia." [112:2] François Lenormant, _Chaldean Magic_, p. 45. [112:3] Hermann Peters, _Pictorial History of Pharmacy_. [113:1] A. Laurent, _La Magie et le Divination chez les Chaldeo-Assyriens_, p. 33. [113:2] François Lenormant, _Chaldean Magic_, p. 244. [114:1] Book vi, 452. [115:1] _Lowell Institute Lecture_; Boston, November, 1906. [116:1] John Thrupp, _The Anglo-Saxon Home_, p. 277. [116:2] Jacob Grimm, _Teutonic Mythology_, p. 1177. [116:3] _The Unconscious Mind_, pp. 348-349. [118:1] _Journal of Science_, vol. xiii, p. 101; 1876. [118:2] _Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers_, p. 219. [118:3] Alfred Wiedmann, _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, p. 272. [119:1] François Lenormant, _Chaldean Magic_, p. 12. [119:2] Johann Hermann Baas, _The History of Medicine_, tr. by H. E. Henderson, p. 23. [119:3] R. Dunglison, _History of Medicine_, p. 23. [119:4] _Boston Transcript_, March 4, 1900. [120:1] A. Lang, _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_, vol. i, p. 96. [120:2] Larousse, _Grand Dictionnaire_, art. "Incantation." [120:3] T. Witton Davies, _Magic, Divination, and Demonology_, p. 62. [121:1] John Potter, _Antiquities of Greece_, vol. ii, p. 244. [121:2] Georg Conrad Horst, _Zauber-Bibliothek_, vol. iii, p. 62. [122:1] Alfred C. Garratt, M.D., _Myths in Medicine_, p. 47; _Dublin University Magazine_, Feb., 1874, p. 221.