Chap. 58.] REMEDIES FOE BOWEL COMPLAINTS. 347 



dung, swine's dung, or hare's dung, reduced to ashes and 

 mixed with mulled wine. Among the remedies, also, for the 

 coeliac flux and dysentery, veal broth is reckoned, a remedy very 

 commonly used. If the patient takes asses' milk for these 

 complaints, it will be all the better if honey is added ; and no 

 less efficacious for either complaint are the ashes of asses' dung 

 taken in wine ; or else polea, the substance above^^-mentioned. 

 In such cases, even when attended with a discharge of blood, 

 we find a horse's rennet recommended, by some persons known 

 as " hippace ;" ashes of burnt horse-dung ; horses' teeth 

 pounded ; and boiled cows' milk. In cases of dysentery, it is 

 recommended to add a little honey ; and, for the cure of grip- 

 ing pains, ashes of deer's horns, bull's gall mixed with cum- 

 min, or tlie flesh of a gourd, should be applied to the navel. 

 For both complaints new cheese made of cows' milk is used, 

 as an injection ; butter also, in the proportion of four semi- 

 sextarii to two ounces of turpentine, or else employed with a de- 

 coction of mallows or with oil of roses. Veal-suet or beef-suet 

 is also given, and the marrow of those animals is boiled with 

 meal, a little wax, and some oil, so as to form a sort of pottage. 

 This marrow, too, is kneaded up with bread for a similar pur- 

 pose ; or else goats' milk is used, boiled down to one half. In 

 cases, too, where there are gripings in the bowels, wine of the 

 first running^^ is administered. For the last-named pains, some 

 persons are of opinion that it is a sufficient remedy to take 

 a single dose of hare's rennet in mulled wine ; though others 

 again, who are more distrustful, are in the habit of applying a 

 liniment to the abdomen, made of goats' blood, barley -meal, 

 and resin. 



For all defluxions of the bowels it is recommended to apply 

 soft cheese, and for coeliac aflections and dysentery old cheese, 

 powdered, one cyathus of cheese being taken in three cyathi of 

 ordinary wine. Goats' blood is boiled down with the marrow 

 of those animals for the cure of dysentery ; and the coeliac flux 

 is effectually treated with the roasted liver of a she- goat, or, 

 what is still better, the liver of a he-goat boiled in astringent 

 wine, and administered in the drink, or else applied to the navel 

 with oil of myrtle. Some persons boil down the liver in three 

 sextarii of water to half a sextarius, and then add rue to it. 



^^ ]n Chap. 57 of this Book. 



«6 " ProLropum." See B. xiv. cc. 9. 11. 



