_A Devonshire Charm for the Thrush._--On visiting one of my parishioners,
whose infant was ill with the thrush, I asked her what medicine she
had given the child? She replied, she had done nothing to it but say
the eighth Psalm over it. I found that her cure was to repeat the
eighth Psalm over the infant three times, three days running; and on my
hesitating a doubt as to the efficacy of the remedy, she appealed to the
case of another of her children who had suffered badly from the thrush,
but had been cured by the use of no other means. If it was said "with
the virtue," it was, she declared, an unfailing cure. The mention, in
this Psalm, of "the mouths of babes and sucklings," I suppose led to its
selection.