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convulsions, and is of great help in giddiness, toothache, asthma, 

 dysentery and strains. 



* ' The blood of the beaver is an efficacious remedy for epilepsy, 

 for on giving it to a beggar boy who was subject to this malady, he 

 was free from it for six days. I made him take some of it a second 

 time, and I have never seen him since, which has made me believe 

 that he was perfectly cured. 



' ' The hair of the beaver is employed to stop hemorrhages of 

 some kinds, as I have lately proved after a surgeon had uselessly 

 employed styptics. 



' ' The teeth of the beaver are attached to the necks of children to 

 facilitate the cutting of their teeth. They are also reduced to powder 

 and given with much success in cases of pleuris}^ and they preserve 

 children from epilepsy if taken in some soup. 



' ' Castoreum is a proved remedy for earache, and is not less effi- 

 cacious in deafness. It disperses abscesses when applied externally, 

 and is the most powerful remedy that we have for the pains of gout. 



' ' Castoreum is a very useful remedy in headaches ; and is not 

 less efficacious in epilepsy, provided that it be employed immediately. 

 Those who are subject to colic or pains, receive solace from it, and it 

 is a useful remedy for toothache. I have very often employed cas- 

 toreum with success in headache, and I have been surprised at the 

 promptitude with which it relieved it. Castoreum also alleviates 

 tumours of the liver, being applied externally, as I have the oppor- 

 tunity of proving for myself every da3^ 



" The wife of a ' mender of old clothes ' was so much inconveni- 

 enced by sciatica, that she could get no rest ; I had, however, the 

 happines of curing her with castoreum. 



" Nothing is truer than that it is very difficult to arouse a leth- 

 argic person from his stupor ; I can, however, boast of having hap- 



