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trembling and shaking members. The fatte of a Foxe 

 and a Drake enclosed in the belly of a Goose, and so 

 rested, with the dripping that commeth from it, they 

 annoynt paralyticke members. 



"The same, with powder of Vine twigs mollified and 

 sod in lye, attenuateth, and bringeth downe, all swelling 

 tumours of the flesh. The fat alone healeth the Alopecias 

 and looseness of the haire ; it is commended in the cure 

 of all sores and ulcers of the head, but the gall, and 

 time, with Mustard-seede is more approved. The fat is 

 also respected for the cure of paine in the eares, if it be 

 warmed and melt at the fire, and so instilled ; and this 

 is used against tingling in the eares. If the Haires rot 

 away on a Horse's taile, they recover them againe, by 

 washing the place with urine and branne, with Wyne 

 and Oyle, and afterward annoynt it with foxe's grease. 

 When sores or ulcers have procured the haire to fall off 

 from the heade, take the head of a young foxe burned with 

 the leaves of blacke Orchanes and Alcyonium, and the 

 powder cast upon the head recovereth againe the haire. 



" If the braine be often given to infants and sucking 

 children, it maketh them that they shall remaine free from 

 the falling evill. Pliny prescribeth a man which twinkleth 

 with his eies, and cannot looke stedfastly, to weare in 

 a chaine, the tongue of a foxe ; and Marcellus biddeth to 

 cut out the tongue of a live foxe, and to turne him away, 

 and hang uppe that tongue to dry in purple thred, and, 

 afterward put it about his necke that is troubled with 

 the whitenesse of the eies, and it shall cure him. 



" But it is more certainely affirmed, that the tongue, 

 either dryed, or greene, layed to the flesh wherein is 

 any Dart or other sharpe head, it draweth them forth 

 violently, and rendeth not the flesh, but, only where it is 



