But the doctors never heard them . So she made Sir John write to the Times to command the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being to put a tax on long words ; - A light tax on words over three syllables , which are necessary evils , like rats : but , like them , must be kept down judiciously . A heavy tax on words over four syllables , as heterodoxy , spontaneity , spiritualism , spuriosity , etc. . And on words over five syllables -LRB- of which I hope no one will wish to see any examples -RRB- , a totally prohibitory tax . And a similar prohibitory tax on words derived from three or more languages at once ; words derived from two languages having become so common that there was no more hope of rooting out them than of rooting out peth-winds . The Chancellor of the Exchequer , being a scholar and a man of sense , jumped at the notion ; for he saw in it the one and only plan for abolishing Schedule D : but when he brought in his bill , most of the Irish members , and -LRB- I am sorry to say -RRB- some of the Scotch likewise , opposed it most strongly , on the ground that in a free country no man was bound either to understand himself or to let others understand him . So the bill fell through on the first reading ; and the Chancellor , being a philosopher , comforted himself with the thought that it was not the first time that a woman had hit off a grand idea and the men turned up their stupid noses thereat . Now the doctors had it all their own way ; and to work they went in earnest , and they gave the poor professor divers and sundry medicines , as prescribed by the ancients and moderns , from Hippocrates to Feuchtersleben , as below , viz . - 1 . Hellebore , to wit - Hellebore of AEta . Hellebore of Galatia . Hellebore of Sicily . And all other Hellebores , after the method of the Helleborising Helleborists of the Helleboric era . But that would not do . Bumpsterhausen 's blue follicles would not stir an inch out of his encephalo digital region . 2 . Trying to find out what was the matter with him , after the method of Hippocrates , Aretaeus , Celsus , Coelius Aurelianus , And Galen . But they found that a great deal too much trouble , as most people have since ; and so had recourse to - 3 . Borage . Cauteries .
Boring a hole in his head XXXXX let out fumes , which -LRB- says Gordonius -RRB- `` will , without doubt , do much good . ''
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