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such a cock is to be found. As for the properties of the 

 several parts of the cock, if the comb be dried and pounded and 

 given to drink to a piss-a-bed, the bad habit will depart 

 from him. The smoke of the dried comb of a white or of a red 

 cock does good to a madman. The gall applied as a colly rium 

 to the eyes, cures dimness of sight, or a film over the eye. 

 Some physician has said that the gall must be placed in a silver 

 vessel and used continuously to obtain a cure. Polonias has 

 said that the gall of a cock, mixed with mutton- broth and 

 taken in the morning on a fasting stomach, is a cure for loss of 

 memory. If the wing-bone be bound on one suffering from 

 intermittent fever, the fever will depart. If a rider ties that 

 bone on his loins he will suffer no fatigue. The blood, used as 

 a colly rium, is beneficial for film over the eyes. If the blood 

 drawn in a cock-fight be mixed with food and given to a num- 

 ber of people, it will cause dissension amongst them. If you 

 take a cock's blood and mix it with honey, and place it on the 

 fire, and apply the mixture to the penis of a man, it will in- 

 crease his virile power as well as his sexual enjoyment. If you 

 take the dried flesh of a cock and pound it with equal quantities 

 of gall-nuts and sumach, and make pills the size of peas, and 

 administer them with a draught of water to one that has a pain 

 in his belly, he will be relieved on the spot. In the stomach of 

 the cock there is a pebble, sometimes sky-blue in colour and 

 sometimes crystal, which, if suspended round the neck of a 

 madman, cures him : and if it be attached to the per m of 

 any man, it increases his sexual appetite. 



