In the little volume on "The Antient Medicine of Erin,"issued by Burroughs, Wellcome and Company, there is a paragraph on the announcement of a remedy in Ireland, about a thousand years ago, which ought to make the advertising managers of the nostrums of to-day feel that they are the feeble offspring of a degenerate age. This ancient Hibernian cure-all was claimed to be a preservative from death, a restorative for the living, a compensation for the want of sinews, a remedy for the tongue-tied (under which term were included all those suffering from defects of speech, from true aphasia to stuttering), a cure for swelling in the head, for wounds by iron, or of burning by fire or of the bite of the hound. It further prevented "the lassitude of old age, cured the decline" (by which the Irish have always designated consumption), the rupture of the blood-vessels (mentioned immediately