Chap. 67.] HEMEDTES FOtt MELANCHOLY. 355 



and recurrent fevers are cured, if we are to believe what the 

 magicians tell us, by wearing the right eye of a wolf, salted, 

 and attached as an amulet. There is one kind of fever gene- 

 rally known as " amphemerine ;" 87 it is to be cured, they say, 

 by the patient taking three drops of blood from an ass's ear, and 

 swallowing them in two semi-sextarii of water. For quartan 

 fever, the magicians recommend cats' dung to be attached to 

 the bod} r , with the toe of a horned owl, and, that the fever 

 may not be recurrent, not to be removed until the seventh 

 paroxysm is past. Who, 88 pray, could have ever made such a 

 discovery as this ? And what, too, can be the meaning of this 

 combination ? Why, of all things in the world, was the toe 

 of a horned owl made choice of? 



Other adepts in this art, who are more moderate in their 

 suggestions, recommend for quartan fever, the salted liver of a 

 cat that has been killed while the moon was on the wane, to be 

 taken in wine just before the paroxysms come on. The ma- 

 gicians recommend, too, that the toes of the patient should be 

 rubbed with the ashes of burnt cow-dung, diluted with a boy's 

 urine, and that a hare's heart should be attached to the hands; 

 they prescribe, also, hare's rennet, to be taken in drink just 

 before the paroxysms come on. New goats' milk cheese is 

 also given with honey, the whey being carefully extracted 

 first, 



CHAP. 67. (17.) REMEDIES FOR MELANCHOLY, LETHARGY, AND 



PHTHISIS. 



For patients affected with melancholy, 89 calves' dung, boiled 

 in wine, is a very useful remedy. Persons are aroused from 

 lethargy by applying to the nostrils the callosities from an 

 ass's legs stepped in vinegar, or the fumes of burnt goats' 

 horns or hair, or by the application of a wild boar's liver ; a 

 remedy which is also used for confirmed 90 drowsiness. 



The cure of phthisis is effected by taking a wolfs liver 

 boiled in thin wine ; the bacon of a sow that has been fed 

 upon herbs ; or the flesh of a she-ass, eaten with the broth : 

 this last mode in particular, being the one that is employed by 



87 Or " quotidian," daily fever. 



88 A rather singular episode in his narrative. It looks like a gloss. 



89 Under this name, as Ajasson remarks, the affections now called " hys- 

 teria" are included. 9 ' Ye termini." 



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