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Ashes, too, of deer's horns are taken in drink for the sarae pur- 

 pose, and for derangements of the uterus they are applied topi- 

 cally, as also bull's gall, used as a pessary with opium, in the 

 proportion of two oboli. It is a good plan, too, to Use fumigations 

 for the uterus, made with deer's hair, burnt. Hinds, they say, 

 when they find themselves pregnant, are in the habit of swal- 

 lowing a small stone. This stone, when found in their excre- 

 ments, or in the uterus — for it is to be found there as well — 

 attached to the body as an amulet, is a preventive of abortion. 

 There are also certain small stones, found in the heart and uterus 

 of these animals, which are very useful for women during preg- 

 nancy and in travail. As to the kind of pumice-stone which 

 is similarly found in the uterus of the cow, we have already"" 

 mentioned it when treating of the formation of that animal. 



A wolf's fat, applied externally, acts emoUiently upon the 

 uterus, and the liver of a wolf is very soothing for pains in 

 that organ. It is found advantageous for women, when near 

 delivery, to eat wolf's flesh, or, if they are in travail, to have 

 a person near them who has eaten it ; so much so, indeed, that 

 it will act as a countercharm even to any noxious spells which 

 may have been laid upon them. In case, however, a person 

 who has eaten wolf's flesh should happen to enter the room 

 at the moment of parturition, dangerous effects Avill be sure to 

 follow. The hare, too, is remarkably useful for the complaints 

 of females : the lights of that animal, dried and taken in drink, 

 are beneficial to the uterus; the liver, taken in water with Samian 

 earth, acts as an emmenagogue ; and the rennet brings away 

 the after-birth, due care being taken by the patient not to bathe 

 the day before. Applied in wool as a pessary, with saffron and 

 leek-juice, this last acts as an expellent upon the dead foetus. It 

 is a general opinion that the uterus of a hare, taken with the 

 food, promotes the conception of male off'spring, and that a 

 similar effect is produced by using the testes and rennet of that 

 animal. It is thought, too, that a leveret, taken from the uterus 

 of its dam, is a restorative of fruitfulness to women who are 

 otherwise past child-bearing. Eut it is the blood of a hare's 

 foetus that the magicians recommend males to drink : while for 

 young girls they prescribe nine pellets of hare's dung, to ensure 

 a durable firmness to the breasts. Por a similar purpose, also, 



^ In B. xi. c, 79. 



