546 EARLESS HEDGEHOG. 



Magnus, the right eye of a Hedgehog, fried in 

 oil, and kept in a brass vessel, imparts all its vir- 

 tues 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 depila- 

 tory, or application for removing superfluous 

 hair! 



But, whatever virtues, either real or imaginary, 

 may be supposed exist in other parts of the ani- 

 mal, it is certain that its skin may be successfully 

 used as a succedaneum for a clothes-brush, and 

 was, in fact, applied to this purpose by the an- 

 cients. 



We are also informed by the Count de BufFon, 

 that it is usual in some countries to muzzle calves, 

 when it becomes necessary to wean them, with 

 the skin of the Hedgehog. 



EARLESS HEDGEHOG. 



Erinaceus Inauris. E. auriculis nuOis. lAn. Syst. Nat. p. 75. 



Briss. Quadr. 184. 

 Hedgehog without external ears. 



Erinaceus Americanus albus. Seb. mus. I. p. 78. t. 49. 

 Guiana Hedgehog. Pennant Qwdr. 2. p. 237. 



THIS, on a general view, seems to be nothing 

 more than a variety of the common Hedgehog; 

 differing chiefly, according to Seba, in having 

 the spines on the upper parts of the body shorter, 



