Lest this should occasion some alarm in the breasts of those who prefer their lobsters with a salad, let us strive to administer a little consolation. We have seen that the cultivated or garden lettuce does not contain so much as one third the quantity of lactucarium yielded by the wild species, ten good lettuces must therefore be eaten before sufficient extract will have been consumed to have killed a dog in two days. This is upon the presumption that the lettuces eaten as salad are in precisely the same condition, and capable of affording the same amount of the extract as when cultivated specially for that purpose; but this is not the case, it is not until just before flowering that the full amount of juice is contained in the plant, a per centage only of which exists in the younger plants as gathered for the table. Nor is that quantity of the same narcotic quality as in the more matured plant, which has collected, at that period, all its strength properly to produce, and bring to perfection, its flowers and fruit. “Nothing hath got so far, But man hath caught and kept it as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest star, He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. “More servants wait on man Than he’ll take notice of: in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him, When sickness makes him pale and wan. Oh, mighty love! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.”