More entries from unusual indexes: From Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy: Cabbage brings heaviness to the soul, 192 Calis, who would wash in no common water, 397 Fish discommended, 192; defended, 398 Genesis, thought inadvisable reading, 771 Kisses, honest and otherwise, 701 et seq. Pork, naught for quasy stomachs, 190 Roman courtesans, their elegancy of speech, 699 Spider in a nutshell, medicine for ague, 596 Statues, love in, 649 Venison, a melancholy meat, 190 Verjuice and oatmeal is good for a parrot, 80 note And from Gilbert White’s 1789 The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: ANNE, Queen, came to...