286 Medicines from Animals. 



which few escape we commend the following 

 simple remedies : " The teeth which were first 

 ingendered in a horse have this vertue in them, 

 that if they should touch the teethe of a man or 

 woman who are molested and grieved with the 

 toothache, they shall presently find a finall ende of 

 their paine : if in like manner a child doe kisse the 

 nose or snowt of a horse he shal never feele paine 

 in his teeth," " the tooth of a hare layed to that 

 part where the teeth ake easeth them," or " if the 

 liver of a Bull be boiled on a soft fire, and put into 

 ones mouth that hath the tooth ache, the paine will 

 goe away so soone as ever the teeth touch it." In 

 cases of earache and deafness, " The fatte of a 

 Dormouse, the fatte of a hen, and the marrow of 

 an Oxe melted together, and being hot, infused 

 into the Eares, doth very much profit both the 

 paines and deafeness thereof." Gout was a common 

 complaint in the days of Topsell, as is evidenced 

 by the large number of prescriptions for the cure 

 and " easing " of it that he has handed down to 

 us. 



The following, which form but a very small 

 part of those given, are sufficiently quaint for 

 repetition : " The Oyle in which a Fox is baked 

 either alive or dead, doth either altogether cure 

 and make whole those which are troubled with the 

 gout, if so be that the disease or sicknesse be 

 greene or new, or at the least not of to longe con- 

 tinuance, it doeth so cure them, although it may 

 happen to returne againe yet it will be much more 



