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chat it will rid the pia and web, the catara@alfo of the eyen, with three daies annointing schafe 
away ferpents if it bee dropped into the fire; gather all weazils in a countrey togither, oncly by 
throwing it into the water; and fetch offhaire ifthe bodiebée anniointed therewith, Itisacom= 
~ monfaying alfo, That the liver of this beaft is of the fame eifect, in cafe it be brought into ali- 
nimentwith the lights of a hedge Jand-toad: like as,chat all amatoriousdrioks andlove-charms 
become void and of none effect by the faid liver. As for thofe who be troubled inmind & given’ 
to melancholic, they find remedie, if out of this beats skin they drinke the juice of the hearbe 
Chamzleon, Furthermore,the guts, and the dung therein contaified (and that isworthie to be 
noted, confidering this beaft liveth upon no meat atall) being {triked uponthe doore of an ene- 
mies houfe, togither with the urine of apes ,caufe him to be hated of allthe world, The hke won- 
ders they report of the Chameleons taile, namely hhowit will ftay any violent flreame of river} 
{top the courfe and inundations of waters and withall bring afleepe and mortifieferpents. The 
fame being aromatized or {piced with Cedar and Myrrhé, and tied faftto a braunchofthe Date 
tree growing double or forked, will devide the waters chat be {mitten therewith, fo asa man may 
{ee whatfoeveris in the bottome. And would God Democritus himfelfe had met with one crop of 
this branch, ro have made him hold in fo many lies as he hath told, confidering that he hath ree 
ported this qualitie of it among other, namely, To reprefle intemperat {peech and inordinat 
walking of the tongue. Bur evident it is,that the onely reafon why Democritus faulted that way, 
(beeing otherwife'a man of a fingular witand wholly addicted to the good of mankind) was an 
exceffive and extraordinarie zeale that he had to profit andbenefit the whole world, she 
~~ Much like to this kind isthe Skinke (whome fome have named the land Crocodile) butthat ~ 
the skin is whiter & more fine.But the principall difference is this, For that the briftles or skales _ 
are couched fo,as they tend from the taile upward to the head; whereas in a crocodilethe fame 
are fercontrarie. The biggeft of this fort,be thofe of India: the next be they which are brought 
outro! Arabia ; and tranfported they be unto'us falted . The muffe and the feet givento drinke* 
in white wine, doe enflame the heat of luft;but {pecially when they be mixed with Satyrion and 
Rocket feed,of each one dram, mingled with twaine of pepper ; and when they be wrought into 
trofches weighing every one adram, one of them muft be taken at once. But the verie fleth of © 
the Skinks fides, drunkto the quantitie of two oboli,with myrrhe and pepper in like proportion, 
are fuppofed to be more effe@tuall for this purpofe. The fame (as Apedles reporteth) taken both 
before and alfo after meat, isa fingular prefervative again{t envenomed arrows. Befides,it is one 
of the ingredients which goe tothe noble compofitons thatbe called Anudots. Howbeis, Se- 
sas is of opinion and doth write, That ifa man drinke above one dram-weight of itin a hemine 
of wine, it is enough to endaunger his life. Moreover, the juice or broth of the Skinkes fefh 
bailed andtaken with honey,is thought to keepe downe the flefh and to coole Juft, 
Astouching the river-horfe called Hippopotamus,there is a great affinitie or kindred rather 
betweene him andthecrocodile, in regard that they both doe haunt the fame river, and partici= 
pat both of land and water. This beaft (as I have fhewed heretofore) deviled firft che practile of - 
phiebotomie or bloud-letting. Great ftore there be of them beyond the feignorie Saitica in A- 
gypt. Take the afhes of this beafts hide, and reduce them with water into a liniment, it is fingu- 
larto cure the broad biles or apoftemations called Pani. The greafe, and likewife the dung, is 
good againft the cold fit of agues, ifthe Patient receive the perfume thereof. The teeth which 
grow on the left fide of the mouth,doe eafe the toothach, if fo be the gumbs be {carrified there- 
with, The skin taken from the left fide of the forehead, laid untothe fhare and kept faftthereto, 
ftaieth the provocations to venerie. The afhes of the fame doth caufe the haire to grow again€é 
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thicke in thofe places, where by difeafe it is fhed. Take of the genetoirs of this water-horfe the — 
poife of one dram, and drinke it in water, itis a good countrepoifon againft the venome of fers 
pents, As touching their bloud, it ferveth painters in good fiead, : 
The Onces be likewife taken for ftrange and forrein, and of all foure-footed beafts they have 
the quickeft eye and fee bet. By the teftimonie of al! writers, there isin the Ifland C arpathos, a 
fingularkind of afhes made of their houfs, burnt cogither with their hide : and they hold, that 
if men drinke therof,they will become chaft,were they never {o licentious and libidinous beiore: 
againe, let women caft the fameupon their nature or privie parts, it will coole their appetit of 
mans companie syea and kill the itch in any part of the bodie, if ithe rubbed therwith, And the 
urine of this beaft helpeth the ftrangurie, towit, the infirmitie of the bladder when the water 
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