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

 plied to them, and inflammations. $ 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 Dia/'ctes, 

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



Iron/, or Elephant's tooth, binds, stops 



u i jthe Whites, it strengthens the heart and 



5 stomach, helps the yellow jaundice, and 

 PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES, I makes women fruitful. 



AND EXCREMENTS. Those small bones Avhich are found in 



| 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. * 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? 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. \ mixed with a little saffron, is as excellent 



The head of a young Kite, being burnt j 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 Avater, is an j 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 EflttClaws orhoqfs are a sovereign remedy 



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

 burned) is an admirable strengthen^ to 1 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 \ hoof of the right foot behind, 

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



The liver of a Frog, being dried and; 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-day agues. j this is for certain, that it is an admirable 



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

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

 and brings forth birth and after-birth ; it j 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 dissiness in the 

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

 given, it helps tremblings, falling-sickness, j 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. 

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



