jutting out into the estuary of the Severn, not far from the entrance of the Wye, is a field called by the natives "Treacle Field." A few hundred yards from this is a tiny rocky islet, accessible on foot when the tide is out, on which stand the ruins of a small chapel or hermitage, also called "St. Treacle's Chapel." Some local guide-books talk of "St. Tecla's Chapel," but who St. Tecla was they cannot say. The Chepstow Handbook' derives the name of Beachley from this chapel thus: "Beachley was anciently written Betteslé, probably from Bettws a chapel of ease, and Llr= sea-water." However this may be, I think there can be no doubt that both chapel and field derive their name from the old St. Tariec, Tiracius, or Tarasius referred to by your correspondents. William of Worcester is quoted as calling it "Capella Sancti Teriachi Anchorita." Beachley-on-Severn. G. L. F. KNIGHTS OF THE SWAN AND THE ROSE (7th S. ii. 208).—Dr. Brewer says that the Knights of the Swan belong to an order instituted by the elector Frederick II. of Brandenburg, 1443, and restored in 1843 by Frederick William IV. of Prussia. Its object was the relief of distress generally. The King of Prussia is grand master. See 'The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots, and Stories,' p. 525. Warton mentions two romances, one called 'Chevelere de Cigne,' translated from French into English, to be found in Garrick's collection of old plays, and the other, 'L'Ystoire du Chevalier au Signe,' metrical French. This latter is among the royal manuscripts in the British Museum, or at least was during Warton's time. See 'The History of English Poetry from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Century,' p. 208. W. J. BUCKLEY. The Order of the Rose was established in Brazil in 1829. There were two Orders of the Swan: one founded in Flanders about 500, the other in Prussia (a female Order) in 1440, and refounded 1843. See Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates.' EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. See Baring-Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,' p. 600 (ed. London, 1881) and the protext. Q. V. According to Bailey ('Dictionary') the Knights of the Swan were an order of knighthood of the house of Cleve. J. J. S. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (7th S. ii. 9). And ye who o'er the interminable ocean Wreath your crisped smiles. These lines are by the Rev. Robert Potter, and in his translation of Eschylus. The passage in which they occur is quoted by Lord Byron in a foot-note on p. 528 of The Age of Bronze,' Murray's one-volume edit. 1837. The Rev. Robert Potter was a very learned English divine, who also translated Sophocles, Euripides, and other classical authors. He defended Gray against Dr. Johnson's adverse criticism of that poet. Born 1721, died 1804. FREDk. Rule. (7th S. i. 210.) The limb lopped off holds, &c. CAROLUS KERR has made prose of verse. He will find his quotation, slightly diversified, as a portion of the not tell us in what "old play" we may find the lines. motto in The Antiquary,' chap. xxxiv. Sir Walter does Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. FREDK, RULE. Christian Iconography; or, the History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages. By Adolphe Napoléon Didron. Translated by E. J. Millington, and completed by THE death of Didron, the eminent archæologist, took Margaret Stokes. 2 vols. (Bell & Sons.) place before he could put into shape the valuable materials he had accumulated for a continuation of his Iconographie Chrétienne.' His first volume appeared in 1843 in quarto, and was published by order of Government as part of the "Collection de Documents Inédits sur l'Histoire de France." Occupied with his Annales Archéologiques, which he edited during many years, Didron found no time to complete what, after all, is his greatest work. Portions of it, however, found from time to time their way into the Annales, and other portions appeared in vol. x. of the Revue Française. These fragments, with some modifications which increased knowledge has rendered necessary, Miss Stokes has united, supplying herself the connecting links, and adding in the shape of continuation and appendices what is equal to one-third of the entire work. The wood engravings, executed by M. Durand, have also been reproduced. For the first time, accordingly, the scheme of the 'Christian Iconography is carried out; not, perhaps, as it would have been had life and leisure been left to the original author, but fully, and in the main satisfactorily. The portions for which Miss Stokes is responsible are in some respects the most interesting in the work. The iconography of the Trinity is doubtless the most important in its development of medieval faith. In the iconography of angels, of devils, and of death, however, the grotesque aspects of medieval thought and art, which rank among the most suggestive phases, are shown. In completing a work of this kind, of which a portion only has been accessible to the English reader, and in presenting in a convenient and an accessible form its curious illustrations of ancient belief and its excellent reproductions of ancient art, the public has been rendered a service the archæologist will not be slow to recognize. Miss Stokes is a fervent disciple of Didron, and has carried out his scheme in a manner at once reverential and competent. Popular County Histories.-A History of Derbyshire. By John Pendleton. (Stock.) MR. PENDLETON'S History of Derbyshire' is a very use ful and interesting book. Like the others of the series, it is open to censure for not, in most cases, giving authority for the things that are stated. The work suffers also from baving too much of the guide-book in its composition. We fear Mr. Pendleton has not fully compre hended when he should tell us of mediæval things and when not. The period from the battle of Hastings to that of Bosworth, when the Middle Ages may be said to have ended in England, is one of so much interest that it is a pity he should have almost entirely ig nored it. The few facts given, so far as we have been able to test them, are given fairly, except when he states that William de Peveril was the Conqueror's "natural son." We are well aware that this assertion has been made before, but there is no real evidence for it, and we have strong reasons for rejecting such a tale when told of a man like the Conqueror. The heralds had a craze-it suited their customers-of tracing everybody to a royal ancestor. Social feeling in the Middle Ages regarding bastardy was so different from what it is now that those who inherited the blood of the Peverils would regard the alleged descent from William as an additional honour. One great merit of Mr. Pendleton's book is that he seems to have taken great care in its production. It is evident that he has visited all, or nearly all the places which he describes, and that he has a sound, healthy intelligence, so far as those modern industries are concerned which have given so much prosperity to Derby shire. The account given of Derbyshire's connexion with the Revolution of 1688 is especially good; and here and there are scattered through the volume noteworthy bits of folk-lore, such as the trial of a murderer by touch at Haddon, and the belief that the waters of the hot springs at Buxton came underground from the river Jordan. An extract from a letter written in the last century gives a circumstantial account of a number of persons rising from the dead at Hayfield. Though Mr. Pendleton has much to tell us about the seventeenth century he makes the blunder-astounding it would be were it not so common-that Cromwell was the chief figure on the Parliament side at the beginning of the great Civil War. When speaking of Chesterfield, he says, "Cromwell's soldiers, under Sir Thomas Fairfax, marched into the town in 1643." He ought really to be aware that at the date given Oliver was a person of much less account than Sir Thomas Fairfax. The grand figure of Charles the Great might have been for ever obscured by romance writers, had we not original documents to test hem by, as earlier heroes have been. What would be the picture of Oliver we should now have if printing had not been invented it is vain to guess. Mr. Pendleton, we may see clearly enough, is in the same state of mind as the poetical personages who have given us detailed accounts of Karl's wars with the Moslem. Shakespeare's Cymbeline. The Text Revised and Annotated by C. M. Ingleby, LL.D. (Trübner & Co.) DR. INGLEBY's edition of Cymbeline' is less intended as a class-book than as a book for students and scholars. As such it will meet with warmest welcome. Practically the text, though modernized as regards spelling, is that of the first folio, since when a different reading is substituted that of the first folio is always given in the notes. These notes, which presuppose a moderate knowledge of Shakspearean English, are given at the foot of the page, so as to be immediately accessible, and the entire supplementary matter occupies no more than five pages. To those familiar with Dr. Ingleby's work it is needless to say that the prefatory matter is exhaustive as regards information concerning the play, and that the text and annotations constitute together a model of accurate scholarship and critical insight. This edition of Cymbeline' will be that affected by scholars. IN the Memorials of Dr. Richard Robert Madden (Dublin, Falconer), recently brought out by his son, Dr. T. More Madden, of Dublin-in anticipation only, it is hoped, of a full account to be given hereafter-there will be found a brief but interesting record of a life of untiring activity and devotion to good works, as well as to science and letters. Dr. Madden was, in the course of a long and varied life, the friend and acquaintance of many whose names are household words, including Sir Moses Montefiore, both the Disraelis, Lord Brougham, Macaulay, Thomas Moore, Washington Irving, Landor, Thackeray, and others, quos perscribere longum. Whether in Western Australia as Colonial Secretary, in Jamaica as special magistrate, or in the Holy Land and Levant as a simple Eastern traveller, in company with Sir Moses Montefiore, Dr. Madden was always devoted to the cause of humanity, and his memory deserves to be held in honour. It is pleasant to know that he was laid to rest in sight of the ancient home of the Maddens of Donnybrook. MR. ALFRED RUSSELL SMITH, of 75, Sandringham Buildings, Shaftesbury Avenue, is publishing in a limited series a reprint of rare contemporary tracts detailing the battles, sieges, and skirmishes of the Civil War. The first of the series will be A Miraculous Victory by Lord Fairfax against the Army under the Earl of Newcastle at Wakefield in May, 1643.' MESSRS. FIELD & TUER announce for speedy publication by subscription 'The Signs of Old Lombard Street,' by F. G. Hilton Price, F.S.A., with sixty whole-page 4to. i.lustrations by James West. Mansfield Ingleby, one of the oldest and most faithful WITH deep regret we hear of the death of Dr. Clement contributors to N. & Q' His communications began with the first series, and have since continued with little intermission. During his present illness, which terminated fatally on the 26th ult., he was preparing new matter for us; and his latest communication contained an expression of sorrow at unavoidable delay. No more diligent or accurate Shakspearean scholar is left behind, and his 'Shakspeare Hermeneutics,' his 'Shakspeare's Centurie of Praise,' and his 'Still Lion' are in the hands of every lover of the poet. His edition of Cymbeline' is noticed in our present number. Dr. Ingleby was born Oct. 29, 1823, at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a vicepresident of the Royal Society of Literature, and a trustee of Shakspeare's birthplace. The intelligence of his death will be received with sorrow in all literary and antiquarian circles. The funeral takes place at Ovingdean, near Brighton, this day (Saturday), at 3 P.M. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices : ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate.' E. VYVYAN ("Utter Barrister ").-A full description of this well-known term is found under "Barrister" in the Philological Society's 'Dictionary.' CORRIGENDUM.-P. 244, col. 2, 1.2, for "Parr" read Monro. NOTICE, Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 22, Took's Court, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, E.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1886. CONTENTS.-N° 41. NOTES:-A Lapp Wedding, 281- New English Dictionary,' 282-Byronic Literature, 284-Sir H. Raeburn-Yorkshire Tobacco, 285-Pitt and the Moor-Don Carlos, 1508-York and Sheffield, 286. bour, did not plead his cause in person, but entrusted it to a match maker, who went well armed with corn-brandy and other gifts likely to soothe and soften hard hearts, and laid siege to the feelings of the chosen one's parents. With song and talk and skilful handling, that come light by practice in such delicate affairs, the matchmaker pleaded the client's cause and extolled his marvellous merits. This all-important personage seems to be of Cheshire-George IV. and Waterloo-Sir N. Rich-Dub- dying out, mayhap to be revived, as advancing lin Penny Journal'-Pringle, Tait, Symington-Bewicke civilization returns to primeval things in more and Lynn Families, 288-Martin's Chapel-Blue Blanket-ways than one. Peyton's Divine Catastrophe'-Jewish Slang - Porter's Ward-Mary Beale: R. Keyer-Engraving after SherwinBollings-Authors Wanted, 289. QUERIES:-John Horne-'Town and Country Magazine'Menendez y Pelayo-Mattachin-Was Holbein Left-handed? 287-Fair at Accrington-" H" Bronze Penny-High Sheriffs REPLIES:-"Porcelain of China," 289-British Bishops of If "Yes" be the reply, the engagement takes place at once, and is consummated by the gift of a silver ring, which has a narrow band round the upper part of it, through which little rings are Cinque Ports-"Fate cannot harm me"-Animated Horse-hung that tinkle whenever the hand is touched. hairs, 293-" Pully-lug Day," 294-"To make up to "- Nowadays gold rings are coming more into fashion. Pontack-Church Bells of Herts -Children's Crusade-Be the ring what it may, it is upon its arrival placed Bathing Machines-Pigot Diamond - Silo-John Smith, 295 -Memorials to Servants-Funny Bone-St. James's, Piccadilly-Richards, Galliard, and Downman Families, 296 Dietrich Memoirs of Grimaldi -Macaulay-"Cool as Dilworth's"-Wright, of Derby, 297-Henchman-Poems attributed to Byron-Hair turned White-Brereton Family, 298-Ket Land, 299. NOTES ON BOOKS:-'Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. VIII.-Wise's Shelley's 'Hellas.' Notices to Correspondents, &c. Notes. A LAPP WEDDING. The sentiment and romance that encircle courtship in other climes seem as though they could not flourish amid the snowy fells of Lapland, for the whole is reduced to a distinctly commercial transaction-not unknown in other lands that pride themselves on their culture and taste. The allimportant point in most cases to be first determined is, Has the bride and has the bridegroom plenty of this world's good things ?-gold, titledeeds, reindeer, or fat-tailed sheep, according to the ideas of the society of the place. Reindeer and Stallo silver mean position and wealth among the Lapps; and if there be these, ah, me! love must play second fiddle, or even sometimes not be allowed to take any part at all. Many a Lapp girl whose face is her fortune is left to bloom alone and waste her sweetness on the desert air, whilst some wondrous being of marvellous ugliness possesses sighing swains in plenty because of her worldly goods. Not that Lapp lads do not occasionally bow before the boy-god as he shines in the eyes of some hill lassie. Sometimes they do, and, spite of the warnings of the wise, prefer love in a hut to no love and reindeer in galore. We hear the old way is dying out before the new. May it die! Courting is rather a complicated business, and formerly the Lapp swain, like his Finnish neigh in a large silver spoon full of brandy, which the lads and lassies drink, and thereby hangs a charm. This being done, the girl takes the ring, puts it on, and is engaged! The men wear no sign, their rings being merely ornaments. One step taken, the wedding follows in due course, generally a few months later. In old times two or three Lapp weddings took place at every great fair held in their neighbourhood; but now these festive gatherings are dying out, and so it will be of more interest to tell of a wedding in these days, as the general features still remain. The wedding day drawing near, the bridal pair took a rather large hut which stood near the church, and in which the feasting took place, the ceremony being held in the parsonage, to which, on the wedding morn, the happy couple set off in a pair of enormous sledges. In the first sat the bride and bridegroom, accompanied by a fiddler; in the second the guests were squeezed in in a manner that made an escape from being crushed to death simply miraculous. If the wedding was an extra grand one the fiddler struck up a festal march as the procession moved off. March, did I say? Well, one always thinks of weddings and marches. Polka! jig! galop! would have been nearer the mark. The great point, however, was not tune, but noise; the greater the noise the greater the importance of the personages in question. The fiddler was generally one of the poorest fellows in the parish, and so his répertoire was not extensive nor his execution Nérudaish. But what of that? He had shakes and trills that astonished his hearers, and, like his race, whether they be in the English village taproom or at the street corners of the Finnish towns, he could play a tune in the true folk way, fitted with marvellous runs and marvellous variations, so that one tune can fit anything, be it common metre or double. Never sat king and queen in their triumphal entry with greater dignity and hauteur than the dropped in and disturbed the festive scene. It ADDITIONS AND EMENDATIONS TO 'NEW 1828, "But Mr. Hunt had been a despicable abuser of all Acolyctine (no quot. in ' Dict.').-1878," Thus Hübschman discovered acolyctine" (trans. of Ziemssen's Cycl. of Med.,' vol. xvii. p. 744). Lapp bridal pair as they swept on to the parsonage. With a self-satisfaction that defies pen to describe, they glanced down on the folks they met. Alas! their gracious condescension too oft provoked but the ribald laughter of the irreverent. On the journey the music never ceased till they reached their destination. The ceremony was of the ordinary Swedish type, well known in the numberless works of those who generally make it a point to get a birth, a marriage, and a death in somehow. That over, so soon as all were seated in the sledge the ear-splitting strains began once more, and lasted till the wedding hut was reached. There the invited guests were assembled with their gifts of meat and cheese they had brought to swell the feast. Down the room was a long table, covered with coarse cloth, perhaps, if grand folks; but much more likely in its native bareness. Upon the arrival of the wedding party the feast began. Boiled meat was brought in a large dish, or just as likely piled up on the table till it was full. On the top of this came dirty bowls full of grease. Round this savoury and appetizing repast gathered the hungry Lapps, ravenous as wolves, and fell upon it with appetites that would astonish any Acetated (earliest quot. in 'Dict.,' from translation of western dweller in a cultured land. They came to foreign work, 1791).-1790, "A small quantity of the eat, and they did eat! Lumps of meat were seized acetated ceruss" (Letter from Dr. Lettsom, with above by nature's forks-fingers as black as coals, inno-date, Pettigrew's 'Memoirs of Lettsom,' 1817, vol. iii. p. 280). cent of water for unknown periods, clad in ancient grime-plunged into the grease, and then, all luscious and dripping, conveyed to the cavernous mouths of the assembled. After this came dessert-reindeer cheese cut into pieces, dipped into the grease, and eaten with a horn spoon or fingers. Huge draughts of corn brandy washed all down. Right diligently was the bottle plied, with ever and anon a quaff from the grease bowls to keep the brandy from taking too much effect, the grease Adrenal supra-renal capsule (not in Dict.').-1886, leaving its traces on the drinkers' faces, till at "Other affections of the adrenals......Addison's disease last they shone in their fatty coating. Now began is the only lesion of the adrenals which demands a sepathe "real wedding joy "—guests singing and shout-rate place" (Fagge, Principles of Med.,' vol. ii. p. 514). ing with all the vigour of powerful and healthy-1827, "Lose half their lives on the road often miry or Adust-dusty (only one quot. from Geo. Eliot, 1863). lungs. Songs were improvised, generally senseless, adust "(Blackwood's Mag., vol. xxi. p. 792). because the improviser was so. Soon some of the guests fell asleep on the table, and were shovelled on to the seats-or under them-against the walls by such of their comrades as were able to take part in the next proceedings, i. e., dancing, if such it could be called. Afresh rose a tempest of shouting and jumping-a wild scene, we are told, our ears cannot conceive. Fiddlers scraped, and scraped, and were encouraged to scrape yet louder, whilst some Lapp, more musical than the others, beat time with a pot-hook on the kettle bottom. Soon the floor was dotted with the forms of those who were too drunk to jump any more, and there they lay snoring, whilst their comrades hopped and roared over them till they too fell amidst the slain. The general ending was that the whole party slept together on the floor. But sometimes Swedes ་ Adam and Eve, name of a plant (not in Dict.").— Eve, while others (the Germans) call it the Devil's bite" 1789, "Some of the country people call it Adam and (Pettigrew's 'Lettsom,' 1817, vol. ii. p. 439). Adjuster (surgical sense not in 'Dict.').— 1877, "Jarvis's Adjuster is an useful and powerful instrument for the same purpose [i.e., the extension of a dislocated limb]" (Erichsen's Surgery,' vol. i. p. 461). Aerated (no earlier quotation in sense 1 than 1862).— 1800," An opinion held by several eminent men that aerated pus was of an acid quality" (Pettigrew's 'Lettsom,' 1817, vol. iii. p. 218. tress he recollected the aerial water Aerobic (not in Dict.'). 1886, "The microbe is aerobic" (Cruikshank's Bacteriology,' p. 125). Vide also (and for anaerobic) Landois and Stirling's Physiol. All-heal (no quot. in Dict.' later than 1725).-1828, Rev. J. Wesley, p. 125). "Apply pounded all-heal" (Domestic Medicine,' by Amarat (not in 'Dict.').-1795, "The posts and frame of the house are of amarat wood" (Pettigrew's Memoirs of Lettsom,' 1817, vol. ii. p. 350). stridula may make its onset without that exudation in Anginal (not in 'Dict.').-1812, "The anginal the throat (Pettigrew's Memoirs of Lettsom,' 1817, vol. iii, p, 4). Affused (no later quot. in 'Dict.' than 1683).-1785, "The white juices affused by transcolation into the cells" (Pettigrew's 'Lettsom,' 1817, vol. iii. p. 303). Ankle-belt (Blackwood's Mag.), Ankle-bell (ibid.), and Ankle-clonus (in common medical use) are not among the compounds of " Ankle " found in 'Dict.' Anorchism (not in 'Dict.'). — 1883, "Monorchism, anorchism. These conditions, especially the latter, are extremely rare......Unilateral anorchism occurs in subjects otherwise well formed" (Holmes, 'Syst. of Surgery,' third edit., vol. iii. p. 462). 'Dict.').-Hemans. Anthem-note (not among compounds of " Anthem " in Anthracometer (no quot. in 'Dict.').-1885, "The volume of CO, is estimated by the anthracometer of Vierordt" (Landois and Stirling, Physiol., vol. i. p. 250). Anti-attrition (earliest quot. in Dict.' 1833).-1827, "Tempered the firmness of him, which but for antiattrition might have verged to severity" (Blackwood's Mag., vol. xxii. p. 599). ing the word as used in 1829. He will find it in earliest instance of this word. It occurs in Don- Amyloid.-MR. SYKES will find this term in sense 3 in another book also published in 1860, viz., in my translation (Churchill) of Virchow's lectures on 'Cellularpathologie,' pp. 367-384, where the word occurs a great many times. I certainly did not borrow the word from Dr. Harris;* I found it in precisely the same form in the German original. Indeed, both he and I derived it from the same source, for we were in Berlin together. I there attended the lectures which I afterwards translated, and both Dr. Harris and myself were present at the practical demonstrations subsequently given by Virchow in illustration of Antic (architect., latest quot. 1826).-1832, "The antic and spiry pinnacles that closed the strait were all of white marble" (Blackwood's Mag., vol. xxxii. p. 983). Antiphlogistic (earliest quot. in Dict.' 1769).-1738, "Repeated bloodings and antiphlogistic purgatives' (Medical Essays,' Edin., second edit., vol. iv. p. 27). Antipodical (not in 'Dict.').—1827, "Nor are the inhabitants of the Antipodical Paradise, less worthy of our admiration" (Blackwood's Mag., vol. xxii. p. 602). Anti-political (not given in 'Dict.' in this sense).— 1832, "The gipsies......put him on a sanative and anti-firmed the results obtained by Virchow. The word political regimen of bread and water for a fortnight' (Blackwood's Mag., vol. xxxii. p. 21). Aortal (earliest quot. in Dict.' 1836).-1829, "Researches on the force of the aortal or left side of the heart" (Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, vol. xxxii. p. 28). Apertometer (earliest quot. in Dict.' 1880).-This word was first used in Journal of Royal Microscopical Soc., vol. i. p. 19, 1878). Aphasia (no history of this word given).-"The affection which I am about to describe was in 1841 termed Alalia' by Prof. Lordat, and in 1861 M. Broca changed the name to that of Aphemia. But M. Chrysaphis, a very distinguished Greek scholar and a Greek himself, although accepting the word Alalia,' proposed as a better one that of aphasia, derived from á, privative, and paois, speech. M. Littré, whose authority is so great, and Dr. Briau have likewise preferred the word Aphasia,' and all three concur in rejecting Aphemia. I had at first adopted the name Aphemia on M. Broca's authority, but I have now, on the authority of the savants I have named, substituted for it that of Aphasia' (Trousseau's Clin. Med., N. Syd. Soc. translation, 1868, vol. i. p. 218). The word appears to have been first used in 1864, by Trousseau, in Gaz. des Hopiteaux. Apinoid (not in Dict.').-1877, "Compared to the appearance presented by a cut through an unripe pear or turnip, hence termed napiform and apinoid by Walshe" (Erichsen's Surgery,' vol. i. p. 782). Apiol (earliest quot. in Dict.' 1872).-1864, "Corlieu has employed apiol......with some success in amenorrhea and dysmenorrhæa " (N. Syd. Soc. Year-Book,' p. 393). Apologizer (no quot. later than 1677 in Dict.').-1827, "She was besides my apologizer-general" (Blackwood's Mag., vol. xxii. p. 598). Mexborough. W. SYKES, M.R.C.S. (To be continued.) Amaurotic. In his "additions and emendations" MR. SYKES corrects the date 1839 by quot the lectures. And there it was that Dr. Harris learned the greater part of what he afterwards embodied in the thesis (for his doctor's degree) quoted by MR. SYKES, though on his return to England he himself made experiments which con amyloid was undoubtedly first used in this sense by Virchow, I cannot say exactly when, but some few years before 1860.+ We have his own authority for this, for in his seventeenth lecture (p. 330 of the first ed., Berlin, 1858), delivered in April, 1858, in the first few lines, he speaks of a degeneration "die in der neueren Zeit ein besonderes Interesse gewonnen hat, nämlich die von Einigen sogenannte speckige, der ich den Namen der amyloiden beigelegt habe." It is not often that we can trace a word or a new meaning of a word to its originator, and this is the chief reason why I have written this note. In conclusion I would advise MR. SYKES to consult my translation, as it contains several medical terms which were then for the first time introduced into English, and it is provided with a very copious index. F. CHANCE. Sydenham Hill. I sincerely trust that the references given by MR. SYKES on p. 185 more nearly approach My translation was not published till 1860, but I began to work at it in 1858. Dr. Harris read every proof-sheet as it was printed, and I read his thesis when it first came from the printer's hands. Thus, in Virchow's Archiv for 1857, in the February number, I find a paper, written by Virchow himself, and entitled Neue Beobachtungen über amyloide Degeneration,' which shows that he had begun to use the term amyloid before that. I. e., bacony, or lardaceous (to employ the term more generally used by medical men in England). I 1860, whereas the only quotation given by Dr. Murray used bacony in the translation quoted above (p. 367) in is dated 1878. |