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Chicken-broth relaxes the bowels and mollifies acridities ; 

 swallows' dung, too, with honey, employed as a suppository, 

 acts as a purgative. 



CHAP. 22. REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE FUNDAMENT AND OF 



THE GENEEATIVE ORGANS. 



The most efficacious remedies for diseases of the rectum are 

 wool-grease to which some add pompholix 8 and oil of roses 

 a dog's head reduced to ashes ; or a serpent's slough, with 

 vinegar. In cases where there are chaps and fissures of those 

 parts, the ashes of the white portion of dogs' dung are used, 

 mixed with oil of roses ; a prescription due, they say, to ^Escu- 

 lapius, 9 and remarkably efficacious also for the removal of 

 warts. Ashes of burnt mouse- dung, swan's fat, and cow 

 suet, are also used. Procidence of the rectum is reduced by an 

 application of the juices discharged by snails when punctured. 

 For the cure of excoriation of those parts, ashes of burnt wood- 

 mice are used, with honey ; the gall of a hedge-hog, with a 

 bat's brains and bitches' milk ; goose-grease, with the brains of 

 the bird, alum, and wool-grease ; or else pigeons' dung, mixed 

 with honey. A spider, the head and legs being first removed, 

 is remarkably good as a friction for condylomata. To prevent 

 the acridity of the humours from fretting the flesh, goose- 

 grease is applied, with Punic wax, white lead, and oil of 

 roses ; swan's grease also, which is said to be a cure for piles. 



A very good thing, they say, for sciatica, is, to pound raw 

 snails in Aminean 10 wine, and to take them with pepper ; to 

 eat a green lizard, the feet, head, and intestines being first 

 removed ; or to eat a spotted lizard, with the addition of three 

 oboli of black poppy. Ruptures and convulsions are treated 

 with sheep's gall, diluted with woman's milk. The gravy which 

 escapes from a rani's lights roasted, is used for the cure of 

 itching pimples and warts upon the generative organs : for 

 other affections of those parts, the ashes of a ram's wool, un- 

 washed even, are used, applied with water; the suet of a 

 sheep's caul, and of the kidneys more particularly, mixed with 

 ashes of pumice-stone and salt ; greasy wool, applied with cold 

 water ; sheep's flesh, burnt to ashes, and applied with water ; 



8 See B. xxxiv. c. 33. 9 It can hardly be said to add to his fame. 



10 See B. xiv. c. 4. 



