2^ O X. Class!. 



In medicine, the horns were employed as alexi- 

 pharmics or antidotes againfl: poifon, the plague, 

 or the fmall-pox ; they have been dignified with the 

 title of Englijh btzoar •, and are faid to have been 

 found to anfwer the end of the oriental kind: the 

 chips of the hoofs, and paring of the raw hides, 

 ierve to make carpenters glue. 



The bones are ufed by mechanics, where ivory is 

 too expenfive ♦, by which the common people are 

 ferved with many neat conveniencies at an eafy rate. 

 From the tibia and carpus bones is procured an 

 oil much ufed by coach-makers and others in dref- 

 fing and cleaning harnefs, and all trappings belong- 

 ing to a coach \ and the bones calcined, afford a fie 

 matter for tefts for the ufeof the refiner in the fmelt- 

 ing trade. 



The blood is ufed as an excellent manure for fruit 

 trees * -, and is the bafis of that fine color, the 

 T ruffian blue. 



The fat, tallow, and fuct, furnifh us with light ; 

 and are alfo ufed to precipitate the fait that is drawn 

 from briny fprings. The gall, liver, fpleen and 

 urine, have alfo their place in the materia medica. 



The ufes of butter, cheefe, creme and milk, in 

 domeftic oeconomy j and the excellence of the latter, 

 in furnifhing a palatable nutriment for moil peo- 

 ple, whofe organs of digeftion are weakened, are 

 too obvious to be infilled on. 



* Evelyn's phij. difc. of earth, p. 31 9".. 



Horns 



