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however, to conclude that all their medicinal properties must 

 be much more highly developed than, in the animal as found 

 among us. It is asserted also, that cows' milk is a general 

 counter-poison, in the cases above-mentioned, more particularly, 

 as also where the poison of ephemeron*" has settled internally, 

 or cantharides have been administered ; it acting upon the 

 poison by vomit. Broth, too, made from goats' flesh, neutral- 

 izes the efiects of cantharides, in a similar manner, it is said. 

 To counteract the corrosive poisons which destroy by ulcer- 

 ation, veal or beef-suet is resorted to ; and in cases where a 

 leech has been swallowed, butter is the usual remedy, with 

 vinegar heated with a red-hot iron. Indeed, butter employed 

 by itself is a good remedy for poisons, for where oil is not 

 to be procured, it is an excellent substitute for it. Used with 

 honey, butter heals injuries inflicted by millepedes. The 

 broth of boiled tripe, it is thought, is an effectual repellent of 

 the above-mentioned poisons, aconite and hemlock more par- 

 ticularly ; veal-suet also has a similar repute. 



Fresh goats' milk cheese is given to persons who have taken 

 mistletoe, and goats' nailk itself is a remedy for cantharides. 

 Taken with Taminian^^ grapes, goats' milk is an antidote to the 

 effects of ephemeron. Goats' blood, boiled down with the mar- 

 row, is used as a remedy for the narcotic^^ poisons, and kids' blood 

 for the other poisons. Kid's rennet is administered where per- 

 sons have taken mistletoe, the juice of the white chamseleon,^* 

 or bull's blood ; for which last, hare's rennet in vinegar is also 

 used by way of antidote. For injuries inflicted by the pasti- 

 naca,^^ and the stings or bites of all kinds of marine animals, 

 hare's rennet, kid's rennet, or lamb's rennet is taken, in doses 

 of one drachma, in wine. Hare's rennet, too, generally forms 

 an ingredient in the antidotes for poisons. 



The moth that is seen fluttering about the flame of a lamp 

 is generally reckoned in the number of the noxious substances : 

 its bad effects are neutralized by the agency of goat's liver. 

 Goat's gall, too, is looked upon as an antidote to venomous 



"5 See B. XXV. c. 107, and B. xxvi. c. 75. 

 26 See B. xxiii. cc. 13, 14. 



2"' "Toxica" — properly, those poisons in Avhich the barbarous nations 

 dipped their arrows. 



^" See B. xxii. c. 21. ^^ Or, sting-ray. 



