text:  And having this notion as to Jack's motives and knowing nothing of the private confab at the village lawyer's he could not help believing that by a brisk course of purgatives and an antiphlogistic treatment--and without resorting to a strait-waistcoat which many who knew Jack's pranks at once recommended him to adopt--he might be cured of those acrid and intoxicating vapours which ascending into the brain led him into such extravagant vagaries