288 Medicines from Animals. 



" For giving great ease unto the gowt the skinnes 

 of beavers burned with drie Oynions and liquid 

 pitch put into the soles of shooes," or soles made 

 of "Badger skins," are very much commended. 



The prescriptions for the cure of coughs are 

 almost as numerous as are those for gout, but three 

 examples must suffice. " The liver of a fox washed 

 in Wyne and dryed in an earthen pot in an Oven, 

 and afterward seasoned with Sugar, is the best 

 medicine in the world for an old cough, for it hath 

 bin approved to cure it ; although it hath continued 

 twenty yeares, drinking every day two sponsfuls in 

 Wine." " The broath that is confected of goat's 

 fat sodden helpeth the cough being tempered with 

 new sweet wine, that an ounce may be put in a 

 goblet and so mixed with a branch of rue " ; or 

 " the fome of a horse being 3 or 4 times taken in 

 drinke doth quite expell and drive away the cough. 

 The same also being mingled with hot water, and 

 given to one who is troubled with the cough, or 

 consumption of the lunges, being in manner past 

 al cure doth presently procure health." Should 

 any of our readers, however, think of trying this 

 prescription, we advise them not to obtain the 

 necessary " fome" from a horse that they value, as 

 the death of the horse "doth instantly ensue" upon 

 the cure of the patient. The approved medicine 

 for the Squinancy, or quinsie, is compounded as 

 follows : " Take a live cony and burn her in an 

 Earthen pot to pouder, then take a spoonful of 

 that pouder in a draught of wine, and drink the 



