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gricfe strengthening the defective and weake members ; 

 so also it cureth all the shrinking up and paines in the 

 sinnewes : and Galen attributeth the same vertue to an 

 Hycena sod in Oyle, and the lame person bathed therein, 

 for it hath such power to evacuate and draw forth what- 

 soever evill humour aboundeth in the body of man, that 

 it leaveth nothing hurtfull behinde. 



" Neverthelesse, such bodies are soon againe re- 

 plenished through evill dyet, and relapsed into the same 

 disease againe. The Fox may be boyled in fresh or 

 salt water with annise and time, and with his skin on 

 whole, and not slit, or else his head cut off, there being 

 added to the decoction two pintes of oyle. 



" The flesh of a Foxe sod and layed to afore bitten by 

 a Sea hare, it cureth and healeth the same. The Foxe's 

 skinne is profitable against all moyste fluxes in the skinne 

 of the bod}', and also the gowt, and cold in the sinnewes. 

 The ashes of Foxe's flesh burnt and drunk in wine, is 

 profitable against the shortnesse of breath and stoppings 

 of the liver. 



" The blood of a Foxe dissected, and taken forth of 

 his urine alive, and so drunk, breaketh the stone in the 

 bladder, or else (as Myrepsus saieth) kill the Foxe, and 

 take the blood, and drink a Cupfull thereof, and after- 

 ward with the same wash the parts, and, within an 

 houre the stone shall be voyded : the same vertue is in 

 it being drycd and drunke in wine with sugar. 



" Oxycraton and Foxes blood infused into the Nostrils 

 of a lethargick Horsse, cureth him. The fat is next to 

 a Bui's and a Swine's, so that the fat or larde of Swine 

 may be used for the fat of Foxes, and the fat of Foxes 

 for the Swines grease in medicine. Some do herewith 

 annoynte the places which have the Crampe, and all 



