AGUE St Pernel and St Petronella cure
BAD DREAMS St Christopher protects from
BLEAR EYES St Ottilic and St Clare cure
CHASTITY St Susan protects
CHILDREN St Germayne. But unless the mothers bring a white loaf and a pot of good ale, Sir Thomas More says, 'he wyll not loke at 'em' (p.194)
CHOLERA Oola Beebee is invoked by the Hindoos for this malady
DANCING MANIA St Vitus cures
DEFILEMENT St Susan preserves from
DISCOVERY OF LOST GOODS St Ethelbert and St Elian
DOUBTS St Catherine resolves
GOUT St Wolfgang, they say, is of more service than Blair's pills
GRIPES St Erasmus cures
IDIOCY St Gildas is the guardian angel of idiots
INFAMY St Susan protects from
MADNESS St Dymphna and St Fillan cure
MICE St Gertrude and St Huldrick ward them off. When phosphor paste fails, St Gertrude might be tried, at any rate with less danger than arsenic
MUMBLING St Modget will hear
NIGHT ALARMS St Christopher protects from
PUMPKINS St Rusticus limits undesir'd growth
QUENCHING FIRE St Florian and St Christopher should not be forgotten by fire insurance companies
SCABS St Rooke cures
SORE THROATS St Blaise, who (when he was put to death) prayed if any person suffering from a sore throat invoked him, he might be God's instrument to effect a perfect cure
SUDDEN DEATH St Martin saves from
TEMPERANCE Father Matthew is called 'The Apostle of Temperance' (1790-1856)
TOOTH-ACHE St Appolonia, because before she was burnt alive all her teeth were pulled out
WEALTH St Anne
(From The Reader's Handbook, of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories, and Poems. By the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. (1898)
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