Note 17 — A SUFFOLK PARSON.

A writer in the ‘Athenæum’ (I could make a shrewd guess at his name), after quoting the whist story, goes on: “Dr Belman was the country doctor who, on being asked what he thought of Phrenology, answered with equal promptitude and gravity, ‘I never keep it and never use it. But I have heard that, given every three hours in large doses, it has been very efficacious in certain cases of gout.’”