 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 556 pages
...of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our pro vident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would mairttain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :f — Into the body of the tree a deep hole... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew• " When a horse in the fields happened to be suddenly seized with anything like a numbness... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1894 - 712 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creepi over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this evil, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand,... | |
 | 1890 - 906 pages
...a nature that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue forever. A shrew ash was made thus : Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger,... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 374 pages
...immediately relieve the pain which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected. Against this accident, to which they were continually...once medicated would maintain its virtue for ever." One of these shrew-ashes, now but a fragment of what was evidently once a massive stately tree, may... | |
 | George Herman Ellwanger - 1895 - 278 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...of the limb. Against this accident, to which they are constantly liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 268 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...of the limb. Against this accident, to which they are continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1898 - 448 pages
...suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.1 Against this accident, to which they were continually...which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue forever. A shrew-ash was made thus : — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1898 - 448 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.1 Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - 1899 - 458 pages
...forefathers always kept a shrew-ash, at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtues for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an anger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt with several incantations... | |
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For it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. 
