De magia liber / Antonii de Haen.

  • Haen, Anton de, 1704-1776.
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[1775], ©1775
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Credit: De magia liber / Antonii de Haen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $7 A SUP MN SUME: EDEUUR A da Mu ISTE n 2 L) is nd re v Tas EE d edet Iris. Thus uale cite lig dota. rii, bs ium pegado Ta e uf, E s dpa pos, jeu ale ebbe ues edem ae Leekt. vie 0n ] PON UN sans SENCO KC nt tir NA we o Hess | / ia .. ) QUERIES. (29: S. VIL. Fur. 5. 5. j | : What is Goof ? (27 S. vii. 9.) — .. f The patient is to give the jammabos as good an àt- . | count as possibly he can of his distemper, and the condi- .| tion he is in. 'The jammabos, after a full hearing, writes i i |. || Bome characters on a bit of paper, which characters, as he || pretends, have a particular relation to the constitution of Mu || the patient and the nature of his distemper, This done, | | he places the paper on an altar before his idols, perform- T Ee | ing many superstitious ceremonies, in order, as he gives ..|| out, to cotmmunieate a healing. faeulty to it; after which ER .| he makes it up into pills, whereof the patient is to take ed NA | | one every morning, drinking à large draught of water ^^ eie s M . | upon it, which again must be drawn up from some spring . ; | er river, not without some mystery, and towards such a . corner of the worlá as the jammabos directs. These cha- | racter pills are called 9oof. It must be observed, how- .|ever, that the jammabos seldom administer, and the SNP. . patients seldom resolve to undergo this mysterious cure, E . | till they are almost past all hopes of recovery. In less ub oe M Ur ..'| desperate cases recourse is had to more natural remedies. - xr tut e | The History of Japan,by Engelbertus Kcmpfer, trans- n cis nr el | lated into English by J. G. Scheuchzer, Lond. 1727; b. MS | iii, e. 5. vol. i. p. 285. I oh cav Frrzumorkiws. 35d | .Garrick Club. | ; ^| Your correspondent H. E. A., who asks, ** What | is goof ? ^ in the phrase * pills of goof occurring in The State Sickness, 1795, appears to have fur- nished a clue both to the meaning and source of | the word, by referring to a note which explains goof as * Kampher. Oamphor, according to Pe- reira, is still given occasionally in the form of jills. TUN ? i Bor what connexion is there between camphor and gogf ? To answer that question, and to con- || neet the two words etymologically, we must go a little farther back. Camphor was in medical La- in caphira, and. in the' Greek of the eleventh century koovpi; the Arabie name is very similar. Kopher, in Hebrew, is piteh ; but in our Au- thorised Version (Song, i. 14. and iv. 18.), although lexicograpbers appear to prefer the marginal ren- dering *eypress, itisrendered eamphire. Which- ever is right, it is certain that the Hebrew AopAer T et becomes in Rabbinie Aoof'ra, and that Aopher in Jewish German signifies not only pitch, but re- $in. Now the caphura or camphor, though not, chemically speaking, a resin, has certainly, in its erystaline or granular form, a very resinous ap- pearance; $0 that the term eaphura may very possibly have had some connexion originally with the old Aoof^ra and kopher. ; - Goof, then, the word which is now the subject of our inquiry, appears, in ifs signification of cam phor,to be the commencing portion slightly mo- dified, say vulgarised, of one or other of the old words, caphitra, caphüra, kopher, or koof'ra. —— MI Toc Tnowas Boys.