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to the eye-brows with oil, impart to them a black tint. By 

 using goats' milk, they say, lice may be exterminated ; and the 

 dung of those animals, with honey, is thought to be a cure for 

 alopecy : the ashes, too, of the hoofs, mixed with pitch, prevent 

 the hair from coming off. 



The ashes of a burnt hare, mixed with oil of myrtle, alle- 

 viate head-ache, the patient drinking some water that has 

 been left in the trough after an ox or ass has been drinking 

 there. The male organs of a fox, worn as an amulet, are 

 productive, if we choose to believe it, of a similar effect : the 

 same, too, with the ashes of a burnt deer's horn, applied with 

 vinegar, rose oil, or oil of iris. 



CHAP. 47. REMEDIES FOB AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES. 



For denuxions 35 of the eyes, beef suet, boiled with oil, is 

 applied to the parts affected ; and for eruptions of those organs, 

 ashes of burnt deer's horns are similarly employed, the tips of 

 the horns being considered the most effectual for the purpose. 

 For the cure of cataract, it is reckoned a good plan to apply 

 a wolf's excrements: the same substance, too, reduced to 

 ashes, is used for the dispersion of films, in combination with 

 Attic honey. Bear's gall, too, is similarly employed; and for 

 the cure of epinyctis, wild boar's lard, mixed with oil of 

 roses, is thought to be very useful. An ass's hoof, reduced to 

 ashes and applied with asses' milk, is used for the removal of 

 marks in the eyes and indurations of the crystalline humours. 

 Beef marrow, from the right fore leg, beaten up with soot, 

 is employed for affections of the eyebrows, and for diseases 

 of the eyelids and corners of the eyes. For the same purpose, 

 also, a sort of calliblepharon 36 is prepared from soot, the best 

 of all being that made from a wick of papyrus mixed with 

 oil of sesame ; the soot being removed with a feather and 

 caught in a new vessel prepared for the purpose. This mix- 

 ture, too, is very efficacious for preventing superfluous eye- 

 lashes from growing again when once pulled out. 



Bull's gall is made up into eye- salves 37 with white of egg, 



35 If they are occasioned by irritation, Ajasson thinks that Pliny's re- 

 medy may be of some utility. 



36 "A cosmetic for " beautifying the eye-brows." 



37 " Collyria." 



