Show A Noted Female Charlatan One of the boldest of the French charlatans char-latans the Widow Noel has lately been fined and imprisoned for trickery Not content with prescribing nostrums she used to insist upon residing with her patients whom she thus robbed at her leisure Her last victim was a man with heart disease She remained with him for sixty days and received her board and 350 Her chief medicament was anointment an-ointment made by boiling bull pups for nine days in a mixture of red earth and for this foul stuff she charged 4 per pot Strange to say several witnesses of good character testified to the efficacy of the womans remedies |