Charms are things of the past, or believed inmerely by the vulgar; that is to say, those prettyand fanciful conceits which led our ancestors toattach a healing or sanitary virtue to certainobjects and ceremonies are now almost extinct.A spray from the rowan-tree is no longer a safeguardagainst an epidemic, nor the hand of majestya cure for scrofula. Ladies do not now believethat the presence of a piece of cold iron on theircouch, 'while uneasy in their circumstances,' willsecure a happy consummation; nor is a child'scaul in much request in these days as a protectionagainst fire and drowning. True, we have gotover these beliefs pretty thoroughly. But is thedesire for infallible remedies and potent protectivesdone away with also? Not in the least; andthough science is doing its best to provide honestsubstitutes in a natural measure, the public is notsatisfied with its efforts. Quacks are the modernmagicians, and quack medicines the charms oflatter days. Those who are bald, for instance,will not accept their fate while a single well-puffedelixir with a Greek name remains untried.There is something saddening if notsickening in the evident success which attendsthe pretences to cure chronic and irremediablediseases, to effect miracles in short with the mosttrumpery of means and execrably silly devices.Our forefathers were imposed upon no doubt,but there was method in their madness. The'simples' with which spae-wives and charlatansprofessed to cure ailments were in many caseseffective and now recognised drugs, and were atthe worst perfectly harmless; while the rites withwhich they were administered, if quite apart fromthe purpose, yet appealed gracefully to the imagination.Nowadays, however, the 'simples' arethe patients and not the medicines! The oldstory. Child-like, the age cries for somethingthat it cannot get, rejecting the good that iswithin reach.
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