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the ashes of them (being burnt) eaten, pre- 
serves from drunkenness, helps sore throats 
being applied to them, and inflammations. 
Grass-hoppers, being eaten, ease the 
cholic, and pains in the bladder. 
Hedge Sparrows, being kept in salt, or 
dried and eaten raw, are an admirable rem- 
edy for the stone. 
Young Pigeons being eaten, help pains 
in the reins, and the disease called Tenes- 
mus. 
cn mars 
PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES, 
AND EXCREMENTS. 
Tue brain of Sparrows being eaten, pro- 
vokes lust exceedingly. 
The brain of an Hare being roasted, 
helps trembling, it makes children breed 
teeth easily, their gums being rubbed with 
it, it also helps scald heads, and falling off 
of hair, the head being anointed with it. 
The head of a young Kite, being burnt 
to ashes and the quantity of a drachm of it 
taken every morning in a little water, is an 
admirable remedy against the gout. 
Crab-eyes break the stone, and open 
stoppings of the bowels. 
The lungs of a Foz, well dried, (but not 
burned) is an admirable strengthener to 
the lungs: see the Lohoch of Fox lungs. 
The liver of a Duck, stops fluxes, and 
strengthens the liver exceedingly. 
The liver of a Frog, being dried and 
eaten, helps quartan agues, or as the vulgar 
call them, third-day agues. 
Castoreum resists poison, the bitings of 
venomous beasts; it provokes the menses, 
and brings forth birth and after-birth; it 
expels wind, eases pains and aches, con- 
vulsions, sighings, lethargies; the smell of 
it allays the fits of the mother; inwardly 
given, it helps tremblings, falling-sickness, 
and other such ill effects of the brain and 
nerves: A scruple is enough to take at a 
_ time, and indeed spirit of Castorium is bet- 
ter than Castorium, raw, to which I refer 
you. 
A Sheep’s or Goat’s bladder being burnt, 
and the ashes given inwardly, helps the 
Diabetes. 
A flayed Mouse dried and beaten into 
powder, and given at a time, helps such as 
cannot hold their water, or have a Diabetes, 
if you do the like three days together. 
Ivory, or Elephant’s tooth, binds, stops 
the Whites, it strengthens the heart and 
stomach, helps the yellow jaundice, and 
makes women fruitful. 
Those small bones which are found in 
the fore-feet of an Hare, being beaten into 
powder and drank in wine, powerfully pro- 
voke urine. 
Goose grease, and Capons grease, are 
both softening, help gnawing sores, stiff- 
ness of the womb, and mitigate pain. 
I am of opinion that the suet of a 
Goat mixed with a little saffron, is as excel- 
lent an ointment for the gout, especially the 
gout in the knees, as any is. 
Bears grease stays the falling off of the 
hair. 
Foz grease helps pains in the ears. 
Elk’s Claws or hoofs are a sovereign 
remedy for the falling sickness, though it be 
but worn in a ring, much more being taken 
inwardly ; but saith Mizaldus, it must be the 
hoof of the right foot behind. 
Milk is an extreme windy meat; there- 
fore I am of the opinion of Dioscorides, viz. 
that it is not profitable in head-aches; yet 
this is for certain, that it is an admirable 
remedy for inward ulcers in any part of 
the body, or any corrosions, or excoriations, 
pains in the reins and bladder: but it is very 
bad in diseases of the liver, spleen, the fall- 
ing-sickness, vertigo, or dissiness in the 
head, fevers and head-aches; Goat’s milk _ 
is held to be better than Cow’s for Hectic _ 
fevers, phthisick, and ease and — 
so is Ass’s also. ve 
Whey, attenuates and eccored both cho- = 
