Homoeopathy . Parr 's Life Pills . Mesmerism . Pure Bosh . Exorcisms , for which the read Maleus Maleficarum , Nideri Formicarium , Delrio , Wierus , etc. . But could not get one that mentioned water-babies . Hydropathy . Madame Rachel 's Elixir of Youth . The Poughkeepsie Seer his Prophecies . The distilled liquor of addle eggs . Pyropathy . As successfully employed by the old inquisitors to cure the malady of thought , and now by the Persian Mollahs to cure that of rheumatism . Geopathy , or burying him . Atmopathy , or steaming him . Sympathy , after the method of Basil Valentine his Triumph of Antimony , and Kenelm Digby his Weapon-salve , which some call a hair of the dog that bit him . Hermopathy , or pouring mercury down his throat to move the animal spirits . Meteoropathy , or going up to the moon to look for his lost wits , as Ruggiero did for Orlando Furioso 's : only , having no hippogriff , they were forced to use a balloon ; and , falling into the North Sea , were picked up by a Yarmouth herring-boat , and came home much the wiser , and all over scales . Antipathy , or using him like `` a man and a brother . '' Apathy , or doing nothing at all . With all other ipathies and opathies which Noodle has invented , and Foodle tried , since black-fellows chipped flints at Abbeville -- which is a considerable time ago , to judge by the Great Exhibition .
But nothing would do ; for he screamed and cried all day for a water-baby , to come and drive away the monsters ; and of course they did not try XXXXX find one , because they did not believe in them , and were thinking of nothing but Bumpsterhausen 's blue follicles ; having , as usual , set the cart before the horse , and taken the effect for the cause .
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