30 OX. Class I. 



the wind ;* or (as other writers will have it) the 

 tapers that were set up before the reliques in 

 the miserable tattered churches of that time.f 



In medicine, the horns were employed as 

 alexipharmics or antidotes against poison, the 

 plague, or the small-pox ; they have been digni- 

 fied with the title of English bezoar, and are 

 said to have been found to answer the end of 

 the oriental kind : the chips of the hoofs, and 

 paring of the raw hides, serve to make carpen- 

 ters glue. 



The bones are used by mechanics, where 

 ivory is too expensive, by which the common 

 people are served with many neat conveniencies 

 at an easy rate. From the tibia and carpus 

 bones is procured an oil much used by coach- 

 makers and others in dressing and cleaning 

 harness, and all trappings belonging to a coach ; 

 and the bones calcined, afford a fit matter for 

 tests for the use of the refiner in the smelting 

 trade. 



The blood is used as an excellent manure for 

 fruit trees, J and is the basis of that fine color, 

 the Prussian blue. 



The fat, tallow, and suet, furnish us with 



* Anderson's hist, commerce, I. 45. 

 "f Staveleys hist, of churches, 103. 

 X Evelijns phil. disc, of earth, p. 319. 



