The physician of Charles I.and II.

prescribed abominations not to be named.
Barbarism, as bad as that of Congo or Ashantee.

Traces of this barbarism linger even in the greatly improved medical science of our century.

So while the solemn farce of over-drugging is going on, the world over, the harlequin pseudo-science jumps on to the stage, whip in hand, with half-a-dozen somersets, and begins laying about him.
In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown, Abraham Thornton, put on his gauntlet in open court and defied the appellant to lift the other which he threw down.

It was not until the reign of George II.