Chap. 74.] l^EMEDIES rOE ULCERS. 359 



with vinegar. But it is the thick blood that issues from the 

 liver of a he-goat when cut asunder, that is looked upon as the 

 most efficacious ; or else the ashes of the burnt liver of a goat 

 of either sex, taken in wine or applied to the nostrils with 

 vinegar. The ashes, too, of a leather wine-bottle — but only 

 when made of he-goat skin — are used veiy efficiently witti 

 an equal quantity of resin, for the purpose of stanching blood, 

 and knitting together the lips of the wound. A kid's rennet 

 in vinegar, or the thighs of that animal, reduced to ashes, are 

 said to be productive of a similar result. 



CHAP. 74. REMEDIES EOE ULCERS AKD CARCINOMATOUS SORES. 



Ulcers upon the legs and thighs are cured by an application 

 of bears' grease, mixed with red earth : and those of a serpigi- 

 nous nature by using wild boar's gall, with resin and white 

 lead; the Jaw-bone of a wild boar or swine, reduced to ashes ; 

 swine's dung in a dry state; or goats' dung, made luke-warm 

 in vinegar. For other kinds of ulcers butter is used, as a 

 detergent, and as tending to make new flesh; ashes of deer's 

 antlers, or deer's marrow ; or else bull's gall, mixed with 

 oil of Cyprus- or oil of iris. Wounds inflicted with edged 

 weapons are rubbed with fresh swine's dung, or with dried 

 swine's dung, powdered. "When ulcers are phagedaenic or 

 fistulous, bull's gall is injected, with leek-juice or woman's 

 milk ; or else bull's blood, dried and powdered, with the plant 

 cotyledon.^ 



Carcinomatous sores are treated with hare's rennet, sprin- 

 kled upon them with an equal proportion of capers in wine ; 

 gangrenes, with bears' grease, applied with a feather ; and 

 ulcers of a serpiginous nature with the ashes of an ass's hoofs, 

 powdered upon them. The blood of the horse corrodes the 

 flesh by virtue of certain septic powers which it possesses ; 

 dried horse-dung, too, reduced to ashes, has a similar effect. 

 Those kinds of ulcers which are commonly known as ''phage- 

 daenic," are treated with the ashes of a cow's hide, mixed with 

 honey. Calves' flesh, as also cow-dung mixed with honey, pre- 

 vents recent wounds from swelling. The ashes of a leg of veal, 

 applied with woman's milk, are a cure for sordid ulcers, and the 

 malignant sore known as ''cacoethes:"'' buU-glue, melted, is 



2 See B. xii. c. 51. ^ See B. xxv. c. 101. 



* " Bad habit." A sort of cancer, or malignaut ulcer. 



