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cars,but they ought to be well chaufed and fet into an heat before. Now are thefé medicinesto 
be enclofed within wooll, and fo applied. Moreover, calves tallow, with goofe greace and the © 
juice of bafill, is good for the hearing :alfo calves marowincorporat togither with the powder 
ofcumin, and fo powred into the ears, The {limie {perme of a bore which paflech from the fhap 
of a fow after the is brimmed, if it may be gorten before it touch the ground,is fingular for the 
paine of the cars. If the ears be crackt and hang flagging downe, there is nothing bewerthan 
glew made of calves pizzles, if the fame bee difiolved in water. For other impeditnents of the 
ears, the fat of foxesis verie good. In like manner, goats gall, with oile of roles warme,or che 
juice of leeks : or if there be any rupture within the ears, the {aid gall muft be applied with breft- 
milke. For thofe who be hard of hearing, or have their eares running and {uppurat within, it is 
not amiffe to drop into them a beafts gall, with the urine of a fhe-goat or of the male,it makes 
no matter. But thefe medicines howfoever they are to be ufed,are thoughtto be more effectual 
by farre, in cafe they were putin a goats horne, and{o hung in the fmoke for the {pace of twentie 
daies togither. Alfothere is great commendation of the rennet of an hare, if there be one third 
part of a Romane denarius thereof, and halfe a denare weight of gun Sagapene, concorporat 
in Aminean wine. As for the {welling impoftumes behind the ears, bears gveace repreffeth and 
keepeth them downe, if there bee a cerot made thereof, trogither with the equall weight of wax 
and bulls callow: fome there be who put Hypoquiftis thereto: and buuer alone is good to ane 
nointthem with, fo chat they were fomented beforewith the decoction of Fenigrecke,Howbeit, 
of much better operation it would be, in cafe Nightfhade were added thereto. The ftonesot a 
fox, bulls bloudalfo dried and reduced to powder, bee commended in thiscafe. Moreover,the 
urine ofa fhee goat made warme,and fo dropped into the ears: the dung likewife brought inte 
a lininent with hogs greace,is verie good. : . 
To come nowto the infirmities of the teeth :ifthey bee loofe and thake in their fockers, the 
afhes of harts horne will fettle them firme and faft againe: if they ake,the fame afhes are veri¢ 
good to eafe the paine, whether the teeth be rubbed or wafhed therewith. But fome are of opis 
nion, thatthe powder of the faid horne not burnt ar all,tsiarre better than the athes in thefe ca- 
fes: howbeit, there be dentifrices made both of the powder and alfo of the afhes, Moreoyer,the 
afhes of a wolves head is thoughtto be a foveraigne remedie for the painsiacidentto the teeth. 
Now it is well knowne, that among the excrements of a woelfe, there bee many times bones 
found, which ifthey be hanged about the necke,arine, or other parts of the bodie,have thefame « 
effect, Likewife the cruddled rendies of an hare intufed inro the eare,are fingular for the tooth- 
ach the afhes alfo which come of the head burnt,is a prettie dentifrice for to rub the teeth with- 
all: but if you pur nard thereto, it doth corre& and palliat aftinking breath. Bur fome there be, 
who chufe rather to mingle therewith, the afhes of mice and rats heads. There is found in the 
fide of a hares head a certaine * (harpe bone like untoa needle ; herewith, Phyficians give coun- 
fell co (carrifte the teeth and Jet the gumbs bloud, for the tooth-ach, TFakethe bone of a beaft, 
fet it on fire, and when itis red hore, hold it clofe tothe teeth that bee loofe and ake withall, it 
will fer chem faft againe: the fame being reduced into athes,and tempered.wich myrrhe, is a pro- 
per dentiirice to blaunch the teeth. The bonie{ubftance likewife of hoggs cleys burnt and cal- 
cined, is of the fame force and operation : alfothe hollow hetchel] or whirlebonesoftheirhips, - 
about which their hucklebones turne, worke the like effet ifthey be brought inco afhes. VVell 
knowne itis, thatif the fame bee conveighed downe by.a horne into the throat of horfesand 
fuch like beafts, they will cure the wringing torments of the botts thar fret and gnawthemin 
the bellies:and becing burnt, they are fingular good to confirme and fatten the teeth that bee 
loofe and doe fhake . Alfo if the teeth bee pained by occafion of fome blow given untothem, 
affes milke helpeth them: fo doe the teeth of the faid beaft,if they be calcined and reduced in- 
toathes. This infirmitie is helped alfo with the rough wert or corne of an horfe if it be infufed 
into theearswith oile: this bunch is called by the Greeks Lichen :and itisnot that which is na- 
med Hippomanes, whereof I haveno purpofe to fpeake (confidering itis a hurtful and veno- 
mous thing) but acertaine excrefcente growing about horfe knees, and above their houfes. 
Moreover, in the heart of an horfe there is founda bone, like for all the worldto the eye-téeth 
ofa dog: thisthey holdto bee a verie foveraigne thing for tofcarrifie the teeth when they ake. 
Alfoif one tal... < tooth out of one of thechawles of a dead horfe,it will eafe his owne thataketh, 
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