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from drunkenness^ helps sore throats being ap- \ ter than Castoriurn, raw, to which I refer 

 plied to them, and inflammation*. \ you. 



Grass-hoppers, being eaten^ ease the cholic, \ A Sheep's or Goat's bladder being burnt, 

 and pains in the. bladder. \ and the ashes given inwardly, helps the 



Hedge Sparrows, being kept in salt, or dried \ Diabetes. 



and eaten raw^ are an admirable remedy for \ A flayed Mouse dried and beaten into 

 the stone. \ powder, and given at a time, helps such as 



Young Pigeons being eaten^ help pains in \ cannot hold their water, or have a Diabetes, 

 the reins, and the disease called Tenesmus. : if you do the like three days together. 



Ivory, or Elephant's tooth, binds, stops 



1 jthe Whites, it strengthens the heart and 



; stomach, helps the yellow jaundice, and 

 P \RTS OF LIVING CREATURES, t makes women fruitful. 



AND EXCREMENTS. Those small bones which- are found in 



j the fore-feet of an Hare, being beaten into 



THE brain of Sparrows being eaten, pro-j powder and drank in wine, powerfully pro- 

 vokes lust exceedingly. j voke urine. 



The brain of an Hare being roasted, helps \ Goose grease, and Capons grease, are both 

 trembling, it makes children breed teeth | softening, help gnawing sores, stiffness of 

 easily, their gums being rubbed with it, it j the womb, and mitigate pain, 

 also helps scald heads, and falling off of j I am of opinion that the suet of a Goat 

 hair, the head being anointed with it. j mixed with a little saffron, is as excellent 



The head of a young Kite, being burnt) an ointment for the gout, especially the 

 to ashes and the quantity of a drachm of it gout in the knees, as any is. 

 taken every morning in a little water, is an \ Bears grease stays the falling off of the 

 admirable remedy against the gout. j hair. 



Crab-eyes break the stone, and open \ Fox grease helps pains in the ears, 

 stoppings of the bowels. j Elk's Clazvs or hoofs are a sovereign remedy 



The lungs of a Fox, well dried, (but not j for the falling sickness, though it be but 

 burned) is an admirable strengthened toj worn in a ring, much more being taken in- 

 the lungs : see the Lohoch of Fox lungs. \ wardly ; but saith Mizaldus, it must be the 



The liver of a Duck, stops fluxes, and I hoof of the right foot behind, 

 strengthens the liver exceedingly. Milk is an extreme windy meat ; there - 



The liver of a Frog, being dried andj fore I am of the opinion of Dioscorides, viz. 

 eaten, helps quartan agues, or as the vulgar ! that it is not profitable in head-aches ; yet 

 call them, third-dot/ agues. | this is for certain, that it is an admirable 



Castoreum resists poison, the bitings of j remedy for inward ulcers in any part of 

 venomous beasts ; it provokes the menses, j the body, or any corrosions, or excoriations, 

 and brings forth birth and after-birth; it? pains in the reins and bladder: but it is 

 expels wind, eases pains and aches, con-j very bad in diseases of the liver, spleen, the 

 vulsions, sighings, lethargies; the smell of j falling-sickness, vertigo, or dissiaesh in the 

 it allays the fits of the mother; inwardly J head, fevers and head-aches; Goat's milk 

 given, it helps tremblings, falling-sickness, \ is held to be better than Cow's for Hectic 

 and other such ill effects of the brain and ; fevers, phthisick, and consumptions, and 

 nerves: A scruple is enough to take at also is Ass's also, 

 time, and indeed spirit of Caslorium is bet- j Whey, attenuates and cleanses both cho- 



