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tight as possible, the sheep will fall to feeding immediately. It 

 is said, however, that the part of the tail which lies beyond 

 the knot so made will quickly mortify and die. 



CHAP. 11. (3.) TWENTY-TWO REMEDIES DERIVED FROM EGGS. 



There is a considerable affinity also between wool and eggs, 

 which are applied together as a frontal to the forehead by way 

 of cure for defluxions of the eyes. Wool, however, is not 

 required for this purpose to have been dressed w^ith radicula,''^ 

 the only thing requisite to be combined with it being the 

 white of an egg and powdered frankincense. The white of an 

 egg, also applied by itself, arrests defluxions of the eyes, and has 

 a cooling effect upon inflammations of those organs : some, how- 

 ever, prefer mixing saffron with it, and employ it as an ingre- 

 dient in eye-salves, in place of water. For ophthalmia in infants 

 there is hardly any remedy to be found, except white of egg 

 mixed with fresh butter. Eggs beaten up with oil, are very 

 soothing for erysipelas, beet leaves being laid on the liniment. 



White of egg, mixed with pounded gum' ammoniac, is used 

 as a bandoline for arranging the hairs of the eyelids ; and, in 

 combination with pine-nuts and a little honey, it forms a 

 liniment for the removal of pimples on the face. If the face 

 is well rubbed with it, it will never be sun-burnt. If, the 

 moment the flesh has been scalded, an egg is applied, no blis- 

 ters will form : some persons, however, mix with it barley- 

 meal and a little salt. In cases of ulceration formed by burns, 

 there is nothing better than parched barley and hogs' lard, 

 mixed with the white of an egg. The same mixture is also 

 used as an application for diseases of the rectum, in infants 

 even, and in cases, too, when there is procidence of those parts. 

 For the cure of chaps upon the feet, white of eggs is boiled, 

 with two denarii of white lead, an equal quantity of litharge, 

 a little myrrh, and some wine. For the cure of erysipelas they 

 use the whites of three eggs with amylum : ^^ it is said, too, 

 that white of egg has the effect of knitting wounds and of 

 expelling urinary calculi. The yolk of eggs boiled hard, 

 applied in woman's milk with a little saffron and honey, has 

 a soothing effect upon pains in the eyes. The yolk is applied 

 also to the eyes in wool, mixed with honied wine and oil of 



'^ See B. XIX. c. 1, B. xxiv. c 58, and B. xxv. c. 21. 

 " See B. xviii. c. 17. 

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