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illustrations of madness.
parations which are employed in the air-loom, by these pneumatic adepts, for the purposes of assailment.
Seminal fluid, male and female—Effluvia of copper—ditto of sulphur—the vapours of vitriol and aqua fortis—ditto of nightshade and hellebore—effluvia of dogs—stinking human breath—putrid effluvia—ditto of mortification and of the plague—stench of the sesspool—gaz from the anus of the horse—human gaz—gaz of the horse’s greasy heels—Egyptian snuff, (this is a dusty vapour, extremely nauseous, but its composition has not been hitherto ascertained[1])—vapour and effluvia of arsenic —
- ↑ This disgusting odour is exclusively employed during sleep, when, by their dream-workings, they have placed him, as a solitary wanderer, in the marshes near the mouth of the river Nile ; not at that season when its waters bring joy and refreshment, but at its lowest ebb, when the heat is most oppressive, and the
