350 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XXVIII. 



a horse's hoof, taken in wine or water, are considered highly 

 useful for this purpose ; and the same with the dung of a she- 

 goat if a wild goat, all the better taken in honied wine : 

 goats' hair, too, is used, reduced to ashes. 



For carbuncles upon the generative organs, the brains and 

 blood of a wild boar or swine are highly recommended : and 

 for serpiginous affections of those parts, the liver of those 

 animals is used, burnt upon juniper wood more particularly, 

 and mixed with papyrus and arsenic ; 75 the ashes, also, of their 

 dung; ox-gall, kneaded to the consistency of honey, with 

 Egyptian alum and myrrh, beet-root boiled in wine being laid 

 upon it; or else beef. Kunning ulcers of those parts are 

 treated with veal-suet and marrow, boiled in wine, or with the 

 gall of a she- goat, mixed with honey and the extracted juice 

 of the bramble. 76 In cases where these ulcers are serpiginous, 

 it is recommended to use goats' dung with honey or vinegar, 

 or else butter by itself. Swellings of the testes are reduced by 

 using veal-suet with nitre, or the dung of the animal boiled in 

 vinegar. The bladder of a wild boar, eaten roasted, acts as a 

 check upon incontinence of urine ; a similar effect being pro- 

 duced by the ashes of the feet of a wild boar or swine sprinkled 

 in the drink ; the ashes of a sow's bladder taken in drink ; the 

 bladder or lights of a kid ; a hare's brains taken in wine ; the 

 testes of a male hare grilled ; the rennet of that animal taken 

 with goose-grease and polenta ; 77 or the kidneys of an ass, beaten 

 up and taken in undiluted wine. 



The magicians tell us, that after taking the ashes of a boar's 

 genitals in sweet wine, the patient must make water in a dog 

 kennel, and repeat the following formula " This I do that I 

 may not wet my bed as a dog does." On the other hand, a 

 swine's bladder, attached to the groin, facilitates the discharge 

 of the urine, provided it has not already touched the ground. 



CHAP. 61. REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE ORGANS 

 AND OF THE FUNDAMENT. 



Eor diseases of the fundament, a sovereign remedy is bear's 

 gall, mixed with the grease ; to which some persons are in the 



75 Aj assort remarks that arsenic should be used with the greatest care in 

 such a case. 



76 u Rubi." Ho probably means the bramble-berry. 



77 See B. xviii. c. 14. 



