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entred. The liver dryed, and drunke cureth often sigh- 

 ing. The same, or the lights drunke in blacke Wine, 

 openeth the passages of breathing. The same washed 

 in Wyne, and dryed in an earthen pot in an Oven, and, 

 afterward, seasoned with Sugar, is the best medicine in 

 the world for an old cough, for it hath bin approved to 

 cure it, although it hath continued twenty years, drink- 

 ing every day two sponfuls in Wine. 



" The lightes of foxes drunke in Water after they have 

 beene dryed into powder, helpeth the Melt, and Myrepsus 

 affirmeth, that when he gave the same powder to one 

 almost suffocated in a pleurisie it prevailed for a remedy. 

 Archigene prescribeth the dried liver of a Fox for the 

 Spleneticke with Oxymell : and Marcellinus for the Melt, 

 drunke after the same manner ; and Sextus adviseth to 

 drinke it simply without composition of Oxymell. The 

 gall of a Foxe instilled into the eares with Oyle, cureth 

 the paine in them, and, mixed with Hony Atticke, and 

 annointed upon the eies, taketh away al dimnes from 

 them, after an admirable manner. The melt, bound 

 upon the tumors, and bunches of the brest, cureth the 

 Melt in man's body. The reynes dried and mingled 

 with Honie, being anointed uppon Kernels, take them 

 away. For the swelling of the Chaps, rub the reines 

 of a Fox within the mouth. The dung, pounded with 

 Vineger, by annointment cureth the Leprosie speedily. 

 These and such other vertues medicinal, both the elder 

 and later Phisitians have observed in a Fox, wherewithal 

 we wil conclude this discourse." 



THE WOLF. 



The Wolf, as a beast of prey, is invested with a terror 

 peculiarly its own ; when solitary, it is not much dreaded 



