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care being taken to apply it immediately, and unmixed with 

 anything else ; in such cases as the bite of a dog, for instance, 

 or the quill of a hedge-hog entering the flesh, a sponge or 

 some wool being the vehicle in which it is applied. Kneaded 

 up with ashes, it is good for the bite of a mad dog, and for the 

 cure of stings inflicted by serpents. As to the bite of the 

 scolopendra, the effects of urine are said to be quite mar- 

 vellous the person who has been injured has only to touch 

 the crown of his head with a drop of his own urine, and he 

 will experience an instantaneous cure. 



CHAP. 19. INDICATIONS OF HEALTH DERIVED FROM THE TJRINS. 



Certain indications of the health are furnished by the urine. 

 Thus, for example, if it is white at first in the morning and 

 afterwards high-coloured, the first signifies that the digestion is 

 going on, the last that it is completed. When the urine is red, 

 it is a bad sign ; but when it is swarthy, it is the worst sign 

 of all. So, too, when it is thick or full of bubbles, it is a bad 

 sign ; and when a white sediment forms, it is a symptom of 

 pains in the region of the viscera or in the joints. A green- 

 coloured urine is indicative of disease of the viscera, a pale urine 

 of biliousness, and a red urine of some distemper in the blood. 

 The urine is in a bad state, too, when certain objects form in 

 it, like bran or fine clouds in appearance. A thin, white, urine 

 also is in a diseased state ; but when it is thick and possessed 

 of an offensive smell, it is significant of approaching death : so, 

 too, when with children it is thin and watery. 



The adepts in magic expressly forbid a person, when about 

 to make water, to uncover the body in the face of the sun 22 or 

 moon, or to sprinkle with his urine the shadow of any object- 

 whatsoever. Hesiod 23 gives a precept, recommending persons to 

 make water against an object standing full before them, that no 

 divinity may be offended by their nakedness being uncovered. 

 Osthanes maintains that every one who drops some urine 

 upon his foot in the morning will be proof against all noxious 

 medicaments. 



CHAP. 20. (7.) FORTY-ONE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE 

 FEMALE SEX. 



The remedies said to be derived from the bodies of females 



22 This was also one of the Pythagorean precepts. 



23 Works and Days, 1. 727, et seq. 



