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A be melted. againe and run througha fine fercer or preffed through linnen {trainers, which done, © 
-. they fhould be put up in earthen pots,and fetin a cold place. : Te 
But of all thofe things which are generally to be found in every living creature, the gall is that 
which is of greateft efficacie in operation : for power it hath naturally to heat,bite,cur, draw, dil- 
‘cufle,and refolve. The gall of finaller beafts is taken to be more fubtile and penetrative than that 
of the greater,& therefore fuppofed to be the betterfor to go into eyefalves, Buls gall is thought 
to havea fpeciall facultie above all others, principally in fetting a golden colour upon skins,and 
braffe. What gall foever it be,in the preparation thereof for any ufe,regard mufl bee had, thatit 
betaken frefh and new; and then the orifice of the bnrfe or bag wherein it is contained,ought to 
be tied faft with a good round packthred ; thus being bound up clofe,it mutt be caftinto boiling 
B water,and there remaine halfe an hour, within a while after,fo 1oon as it is dried(out of the Sun) 
it ought to be preferved and kept in honey. The gall of horfes only is utterly condemned,and re- 
puted as a very poyfon : which ts the caufe that the arch-Flamin or principal facrificer is forbid- 
den by lawexpreflely to touch an horfe,notwithftanding thatin Rome itis an ordinaty thing to ~ 
facrifice even horfes publickely: And not their gall alone but alfo their bloud, iscortofive by na- 
ture and putrifadtive. The bloud of Mares likewife, unleffe they bee fuch as were never covered 
nor bare foles,doth corrode: in which refpect it is good to eat away the {curfe abourthe brims of 
foresandulcers. And verely *Buls blond freth running out of the bodic,is reckoned no beter *7hemifloctes 
than venome: and yet | muft except Aigira,a cittie in Achaia, where the Prieftiefle of the god. (Porgnth Poy: 
deffe *Ops,at what time as fhe is to prophefie and foretell things tocome,ufeth by drinking Buls *;,rediusor 
C bloudto prepare her felfe before that {hee goeth downe into thevaule or fhrouds out of which Ter thecarth 
the delivereth her prophefies :fo forcible is that Sympathie, whereof wee fpeake fo much, that 
otherwhiles itis occafioned either by a religious opinion and devotioain mens minds, or els by 
the nature of fome place. Drum {omsetimes a Tribune of the Commons in Rome,dranke(as it : 
is reported) Goats blond,to make himfelfe looke pale &*wan in the face,at whattime as he ment *Frvidia,for 
to charge 2.C-pio his enemie with giving him poyfon.And veiely the bloud of aBucke goatis sae 
fo firong thar there is not any thing in the world willeicher fharpen the edge of ariy yron tooles 
fooner,or harden the fame when it iskeene, than it. And as for the ruggedneffe of any blade, it 
willtake it away more effeCually and pollifh it better than the very file. Confidering then this 
diverfitie which isfeene in the bloud of beafts,I cannot write therecf in {uch generall rearmes as 
D of athing indifferently common to every one of them, but I mult be forced to {peak particular- 
ly of their feverall effects. In which regard I will treat refpectively of beafts, according as they 
_ doc yeeld remedies againft this or that maladie:and firft as touching thofe which are adverfe un- 
to ferpents. Ye 
To begin then with Stags and Hinds: no man there is fo ignorant but hee knoweth, that they 
plague ferpentsto the very death, for they plucke them forth of their holes, and eat them when 
they have done.And not onely whiles they be alive doe they war againtt{erpents with the breath 
of their nofthrils,but alfo when they be dead,every member and peece of their bodie is contrarie 
unto them, Burne a peece of an Harts borne, you hail fee how the {moake and {ell therof will 
chafe away ferpents, as I have obferved heretofore :and yet they fay thar the perfume of the 
E bones which are about the throat of a Stag, hath a contrary property ,to gather them together. 
Let aman lay under him Stags skins in ftead of a mattrace,he fhall fleepe fecurely, without any 
_feare that ferpents will approch to do him harme. The rennet in their maw, or the rede itfelfe, if 
it be drunke with vinegre, isa {overaigne antidot againft their venomous fting : andlooke what 
day one doe but handle it, he fhall bee fure and fafe from any daunger by them. The genetoirs 
of a Stag kept untill they be drie, likeas the pizzle alfo made into ponder and taken in wine, is 
a fingular countrepoyfon, refitting the venome of ferpents. Even as the rim of the paunch, 
which is called in Latine Centipellio, Whofoever have about them fo much as the tooth of 
an Hart, or be anointed with the marrow or fuet of a Stag, Bucke, or Hind.calfe, need not to 
feare any ferpents, for they will fliefrom them. But above all remedies,there is none like to the 
F tennetof a Fawne or Hindcalfe, fuch a one efpecially as was ripped out of the dams bellie, asI 
have fhewed heretofore. If together with Deeres bloud there be burned the hearbe Dragon,ba- 
itard Marjaram,and Orchanet,in a fire madewith Lentiske wood,ferpents (by report)will gather 
round together into an heape:Take away the {ame blond and put into the fire the root of *Pyte- *;,Pctitaric of 
thrum,they will {carter afunder againe, Spaine. 
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