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of days. The pastern-bones of these animals are also used, re- 

 duced to ashes ; or else the lights of a wild boar, swine, or deer. 

 When the feet have been galled by the shoes, they are rubbed 

 with the urine of an ass, applied with the mud formed by it 

 upon the ground. Corns are treated with beef-suet and pow- 

 dered frankincense ; chilblains with burnt leather, that of an 

 old shoe, in particular ; and injuries produced by tight shoes 

 with ashes of goat- skin, tempered with oil. 



The pains attendant upon varicose veins are mitigated by 

 using ashes of burnt calves' dung, boiled with lily roots and a 

 little honey : a composition which is equally good for all kinds 

 of inflammations and sores that tend to suppurate. It is very 

 useful, also, for gout and diseases of the joints, when it is the 

 dung of a bull-calf that is used more particularly. For exco- 

 riations of the joints, the gall of a wild boar or swine is applied, 

 in a warm linen cloth : the dung, also, of a calf that has not 

 begun to graze ; or else goat-dung, boiled in vinegar with honey. 

 Yeal-suet rectifies malformed nails, as also goat-suet, mixed with 

 sandarach. Warts are removed by applying ashes of burnt 

 calves' dung in vinegar, or else the mud formed upon the ground 

 by the urine of an ass. 



CHAP. 63. REMEDIES FOR EPILEPSY. 



In cases of epilepsy, it is a good plan to eat a bear's testes, or 

 those of a wild boar, with mares' milk or water ; or else to drink 

 a wild boar's urine with honey and vinegar, that being the 

 best which has been left to dry in the bladder. The testes, 

 also, of swine are prescribed, dried and beaten up in sows' 

 milk, the patient abstaining from wine some days before and 

 after taking the mixture. The lights of a hare, too, are recom- 

 mended, salted, and taken with one third of frankincense, for 

 thirty consecutive days, in white wine : hare's rennet also ; 

 and asses' brains, smoked with burning leaves, and adminis- 

 tered in hydromel, in doses of half an ounce per day. An 

 ass's hoofs are reduced to ashes, and taken for a month toge- 

 ther, in doses of two spoonfuls ; the testes, also, of an ass, 

 salted and mixed with the drink, asses' milk or water in par- 

 ticular. The secundines, also, of a she-ass are recommended, 

 more particularly when it is a male that has been foaled : placed 

 beneath the nostrils of the patient, when the fits are likely to 

 come on, this substance will effectually repel them. 



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