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and with woman's milk, for rupture of the coats of the eye. 

 For all these purposes, the gall is considered the most effica- 

 cious, when dried. Nor is the dung of this animal held in 

 disesteem, being applied with honey for defluxions of the eyes. 

 The marrow, too, of a goat, or a hare's lights, we find used 

 for pains in the eyes ; and the gall of a goat, with raisin wine 

 or honey, for the dispersion of films upon those organs. It is 

 recommended also, for ophthalmia, to anoint the eyes with 

 wolf's fat or swine's marrow : we find it asserted, too, that per- 

 sons who carry a wolf's tongue, inserted in a bracelet, will 

 always be exempt from ophthalmia. 



CHAP. 48. REMEDIES FOR DISEASES AND AFFECTIONS OF 



THE EARS. 



Pains and diseases of the ears are cured by using the urine 

 of a wild boar, kept in a glass vessel, or the gall of a wild 

 boar, swine, or ox, mixed with castor-oil and oil of roses in 

 equal proportions. But the best remedy of all is bull's gall, 

 warmed with leek juice, or with honey, if there is any suppu- 

 ration. Bull's gall too, warmed by itself in a pomegranate 

 rind, is an excellent remedy for offensive exhalations from the 

 ears : in combination with woman's milk, it is efficacious as a 

 cure for ruptures of those organs. Some persons are of opinion 

 that it is a good plan to wash the ears with this preparation in 

 cases where the hearing is affected ; while others again, after 

 washing the ears with warm water, insert a mixture composed 

 of the old slough of a serpent and vinegar, wrapped up in a 

 dossil of wool. In cases, however, where the deafness is very 

 considerable, gall warmed in a pomegranate rind with myrrh 

 and rue, is injected into the ears; sometimes, also, fat bacon 

 is used for this purpose, or fresh asses' dung, mixed with oil 

 of roses: in all cases, however, the ingredients should be 

 warmed. 



The foam from a horse's mouth is better still, or the ashes 

 of fresh horse dung, mixed with oil of roses : fresh butter too 

 is good ; beef-suet mixed with goose-grease ; the urine of a 

 bull or she- goat ; or fullers' lant, heated to such a degree that 

 the steam escapes by the neck of the vessel. For this purpose 

 also, one third part of vinegar is mixed with a small portion of 

 the urine of a calf, which has not begun to graze. They apply 

 also to the ears calf's dung, mixed with the gall of that animal 



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