—i—g—■■ li s< Dr. T. G. Pinches, speaking at the Uni- li versity College on the Assyro-Babylonian IV antiquities at the British Museum, quoted oi the following inscription which appears oil ti one of the monuments: —"The eggs of an ai owl given for three days in wine bring on it a drunkard's weariness. The. dried lung p< of sheep taken beforehand drives away <•< drunkenness. The ashes of a swallow's d, beak ground up with myrrh and sprinkled jn in the wine which is drunk will make secure ti from drunkenness. Horns. King of the As- ( J< Syrian?, found this out." 0 j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13193, 2 June 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)
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