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habit of adding litharge and frankincense. Butter, too, is very 

 good, employed with goose-grease and oil of roses. The pro- 

 portions in which they are mixed will be regulated by the 

 circumstances of the case, care being taken to see that they are 

 of a consistency which admits of their being easily applied. 

 Bull's gall upon lint is a remarkably useful remedy, and has 

 the effect of making chaps of the fundament cicatrize with 

 great rapidity. Swellings of those parts are treated with veal 

 suet — that from the loins in particular — mixed with rue. Por 

 other affections, goats' blood is used, with polenta. Goats' 

 gall, too, is employed by itself, for the cure of condylomata, and 

 sometimes, wolf's gall, mixed with wine. 



Bears' blood is curative of inflamed tumours and apost- 

 emes upon these parts in general ; as also bulls' blood, dried 

 and powdered. The best remedy, however, is considered to 

 be the stone which the wild ass'^ voids with his urine, it is 

 said, at the moment he is killed. This stone, which is in a 

 somewhat liquefied state at first, becomes solid when it reaches 

 the ground : attached to the thigh, it disperses all collections 

 of humours and all kinds of suppurations : it is but rarely 

 found, however, and it is not every wild ass that produces it, 

 but as a remedy it is held in high esteem. Asses' urine too, 

 used in combination with gith, is highly recommended ; the 

 ashes of a horse's hoof, applied with oil and water; a horse's 

 blood, that of a stone-horse in particular ; the blood, also, of an 

 ox or cow, or the gall of those animals. Their flesh too, applied 

 warm, is productive of similar results ; the hoofs reduced to 

 ashes, and taken in water or honey ; the ui'ine of a she-goat ; 

 the flesh of a he-goat, boiled in water ; the dung of these 

 animals, boiled with honey ; or else a boar's gall, or swine's 

 urine, applied in wool. 



Riding on horseback, we well know, galls and chafes the 

 inside of the thighs : the best remedy for accidents of this 

 nature is to rub the parts with the foam which collects at a 

 horse's mouth. AVhere there are swellings in the groin, arising'* 

 from ulcers, a cure is effected by inserting in the sores three 

 horse-hairs, tied with as many knots. 



78 "Onager." 



■'^ Arising, by sympathy, from sores in other parts of the body. 



