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A greene dungofa calfe,cow,or ox. Some ufe hard cheele tiade of goats milke and porret toge- 
ther: alfo the fine {crapings of a ftags skin ferched off with 4 puniilh {tone & brought into pow- 
der, and {fo applied with vinepre. For the rednefle of the skia with much itching, the fomeof an 
horfemouth, orthe athes ‘of his houte, isafingular medicifie. lf there be any.wheales or {mall 
‘pocks proceeding of fleaniedoe annoy thieskin; no better thing than a linittient made of affe- 
dung athes incorporat in buryr: Say thefe wheals or pimples appeare blackith and {wertby rea- 
fon of melancholly,driecheefe made of goats milke brovghrisito an ointmentwith honey and 
‘vinevte,is good torub the bodiewithall ima baine or hothoufe,withoutahy ule of oile at all. For 
bliftersandaiige’@ treazles,theathes of {wines dung are thought to be verie meet tas alfo the a- 
.¢,fo thatthe place be rubbed with chenrand water togithe# 1fthere be any dif- 
‘Jocation or bore out of joynr,che green dung of abore-orfowis good tobe applied : fois that of 
a calfe: the forte frothing froma bore, laid to the place with vinegte: and goats dung with bony. 
There isnotaberterthiag to bring downe any {welling,tharia cataplafnie ofraw beefe: and as 
forany hard eamors, {wines dung made-hote and dried in anearthen potfheard,or upon atile,ts 
excellent ro'difcnfle andrefolvethem : the'greace ofa wodlfe is exceeding 600d to breake any 
simpoftumation that is grown ‘to ripencflesto is neats dung mide hot under the embres:or goats 
atreddles foddén inwine or vinegre.As touching fellons and fuch like apoftumations, beentetal- 
dow with falt is much commended for to refolve them: and if-the place be much pained; it‘were 
good to dip the {aid tallow in dile, andto mele the fame without any falt: and in like -manheris 
‘poats fewer to be uled! Fora burne or fcald,there is a proper falve made of bears pteace aia lillié 
roots : forwhich purpofe, the dung of bore or fow that hath been long képr, is'very good: fo is 
theafhes oftheirbriftles(fuch as pargettars whiting-brothes be made ofwrought & incorporat 
with greace :alfothe afhes ofa beafts ankle or pafterne bone tempered With Was and themarow 
either of adeereorbull:like as the dung of aii hare. And'verély} goats treddles dre fo accom- 
amodatto this cure,that(by report)they will healea burr without any ska at all: The moft excel 
Jentglew is made of the ears.and pizzles of buls:and theréisnot a better thitig in the world than 
it,for to heale any place burnt or {calded :butaothing is fo much fophifticat,whatwich other old 
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skins and hides, and what with old thoes and fuch like lether, boiled agaiti¢'and made into glew, 
The moft faft and ftrongeft glewwhicha man may tuft unto; is made arRhodes; andthatis it 
which painters and phyticians moft ufe:the whirer that the fame isthe better is:it efteemed: that 
which looketh blacke, and is hard withall and brittle like wood, istejetedy?' > | 
{ris thought, thar for the paine of the finews, goats dung boiledin wie with honey tsfoves 
raigne, yea though a nerve began to putrifie: convulfions, cramps, and {preins of nerves upon 
fome violent ftroke are cured with bores dung gathereditr the {pring & fo died. Afterthe fame 
manner,fuch as be overftreined.and plucked with the draught oFanycharrior, orwoundedwith 
thewheels going over them 5 and generally, howfoever the’bletd be fetled black unidet the'skin 
by contufion or bruife ifthe places be anointed with thefaid dung, though it were green & freth; 
mutch eafe and heipe entueth thereupon: howbeit, fome thinkethatir were betrerto feeth the 
dung firft in-vinegre: and orhets reduce che fame being dri¢ into powder, &promifethem that 
be either burften, wounded.and brvifed inwardly, or have been overthrowne arid falne fromion 
: high, ifthey drinke it in vinegre,thatthey fhall have helpe thereby. Bur the betteranid chofe rhae 
Jovenotto makethe greateftboaft of their medicines,ufe the athes therof with water. And verely 
itis faid,that the Emperor Nero was wontin this kind of drinke to take great pleafure, and-with ie 
to refrets himfelfe,when his purpofe was by that means to win’a nanie andapptoove hithfelfe a 
doubtie wig htjin running wich coaches in the great cirque or fhew: place. To conclude; riextto 
the dung of the bore, iscommended that of a fow or any otherhog, andthougheto'be' in a'fe- 
cond place of operation. ! OPS SUT NTN Baad 
16th Cuare XV" apa ags> «2 dee sar wale 
ar Medicines to flanch blood : to heale ulcers, cancerous fores, and the wild [cab : alfo whatme= 
dscints they be that draw thorns, pricks or what[ocver flicketh within theficlh, 
. Finaily, proper recess tocicatrixe and skin a wound or fore, : 
He rennet of any deere or a hare, ufed in vinegre,ftancheth bloud. The athes alfo of the 
haire of: an hare: likewife of afles dung: yea and the verieathes of theit haire madeintoa 
~*~ Singnent with any convenient liquor,hath the fame effeat: but if you would haveit to work 
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