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OX: Crass I. 
In medicine, the horns were employed as alexi- 
pharmics or antidotes againft poifon, the plague, 
or the {mall-pox ,; they have been dignified with the 
title of Englifh bezoar ; and are faid to have been 
found to anfwer the end of the oriental kind: the 
chips of the hoofs, and paring of the raw hides, 
jerve to make carpenters glue. 
The bones are ufed by mechanics, where ivory is 
too expenfive; by which the common people are 
ferved with many neat conveniencies at an eafy rate. 
From the ¢iza and carpus bones is procured an 
oil much ufed by coach-makers and others in dref- 
fine and cleaning harnefs, and all trappings belong- 
ing to a coach; and the bones calcined, afford a fit 
matter for tefts for the ufe of the refiner in the {melt- 
ing trade. 
The blood is ufed as an excellent manure for fruit 
trees*; andis the bafis of that fine color, the 
Pruffian blue. 
The fat, tallow, and fuet, furnifh us with light ; 
and are alfo ufed to precipitate the falt that is drawn 
from briny fprings. The gall, liver, fpleen and 
urine, have alfo their place in the materia medica. 
The ufes of butter, cheefe, creme and milk, in 
domeftic ceconomy ; and the excellence of the latter, 
in furnifhing a palatable nutriment for moft peo- 
ple, whofe organs of digeftion are weakened, are 
too obvious to be infifted on. 
* Evelyn’s phil. difc, of earth, p, 319.. 
Horns 
