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most part there of and rubbe your throat with the 

 residue and it shal cure with speed and ease." In 

 cases of colic we learn that ft Tenne sprigs of 

 Lawrell, seaven graines of Pepper, and of Opponax 

 as big as Pease, the skin of the ribs of a Hedghog 

 dryed and beaten cast into three cups of Water 

 and warmed, so being drunk of one that hath the 

 Collicke and let rest, he shall be in perfect health; 

 but, with this exception, that for a man it must bee 

 the membrane of a male Hedgehog, and for a 

 woman a female. The ashes, also, of a horses 

 hoofe, being mingled with wine and water doth 

 greatly ease and helpe the disease called the 

 collicke." 



Smallpox can hardly nowadays be reckoned as 

 one of the common diseases, but the following 

 recipe is too good to be passed over : " The 

 shaving of a Goates skinne, being rubbed with 

 pumice stone, and mixed with Vinegar, is an 

 excellent good remedy for the smal pox." 



The medicines of animals were not only con- 

 sidered useful for the cure of actual disease, but 

 were thought equally efficacious in minor com- 

 plaints, such, for instance to take two examples 

 only as nightmare and baldness, for both of 

 which we find a large number of remedies sug- 

 gested. For example, " One of the great teeth of 

 an Hyaena being bound with a string unto any that 

 are troubled in the night times with shadowes 

 and fantasies, and which are frayed out of their 

 sleepe with fearful visions, doth very speedily and 



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