iv — Section 520

I read once of a man who was cured of a dangerous illness by eating his doctor’s prescription which he understood was the medicine itself.  So William Sefton Moorhouse [in New Zealand] imagined he was being converted to Christianity by reading Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, which he had got by mistake for Butler’s Analogy, on the recommendation of a friend.  But it puzzled him a good deal.