THE HEDGEHOG. 



the farmers to put the skin of a Hedgehog on 

 the muzzle of a Calf which they are about to 

 wean, in order that the Cow may not permit it to 

 suck. 



" As a curious example/ (observes Dr. Shaw,,) 

 of the absurdities which sometimes occur in the 

 works of the older writers, we may remark, that, 

 according to Albertus Magnus, the right eye of a 

 Hedgehog, fried in oil, and kept in a brass vessel, 

 imparts all its virtues to the oil, which, used as a 

 collyrium, or ointment, for the eyes, produces 

 such a clearness of vision as to enable a person to 

 see as well by night as by day ! ! And Pliny 

 affirms, that its gall, mixed with the brain of a 

 Bat, is a good depilatory, or application, for the 

 removing of superfluous hair*!" 



Hedgehogs are by no means uncommon animals 

 in any of the cultivated districts either of Great 

 Britain or Ireland. 



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This animal is called draenog, and draen y coed, 

 in Wales: in France, herisson: in Italy, riccio, 

 erinaceo, aizzo : in Spain, erizo: in Portugal, ourizo, 



Shaw's General Zoology, i. p. 576. 



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