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of Plinies Naturall Bitarie: ; 
A andbend one way more than another. Egs entier andall whole as they be, [/. whi ce,yelke, fhell; 
and skin] taken in wine with rue,dill,and cumin, helpe women in hard travaile co fpcedie and ea- 
fie deliverance. Egs incorporat with oile & rofin of the cedar mixed togither are Gipular good 
for to healefcabs and to kill the itch: put thereto the root of Cyclamia, [7 Sow-bread j1t hea- 
Jeth the running skalls of the head: forthofethat reach up purulent matter out of their cheft, 
or {pit bloud, it is good to fup of araw egg togither with the juice of unfer leeks, and an equall 
guantitic of Greekifh wine ; bur firft all mutt be warmed, before that it bee given to the patient, 
Againft a cough,they ordeine egs fodden and ftamped togither with honey,and foro ear them 5 
or elfe to {up them off raw, with wine cuit and oile,of each alike quantitie.Ifa nian have any fore 
or ulcer in his fecret parts ferving for generation, it were verie good to injectone ege tempered 
B’ with three cyaths of wine cuit, and halfean ounce of Amylum or ftarch- floure, pre‘ently upon 
his comming forth of the bains or hothoufe.An excellent liniment there is made of fodden egs 
ftamped togither with creffes, for the fting or biting of ferpents. How. many means there bee 
whereby egs doe goodas meat, there isnot one but knowerh: for even in their going downe, 
they paffe through any tumor and {welling ofthe throat, and with cheir kind heat foment thofe 
parts by the way. There is not any kind of viand in the world befides ir, that nourifheth aficke 
man,without any offence or burden at all to the ftomacke; and it may go well enough tor meat 
and drinke both, As touching egsfoked in vinegre, and how their thellsmay bee mace foftand 
tender thereby, I have alreadie fhewed :fuch egs if they be wrought and knead with meale into a 
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dough or paft, doe make a kind of bread which is foveraigne for ali fluxes of the ftomack Some 
the fame betweenc two platters of earth ;fuppofing that being thus prepared, thicy fervec noron- 
ly to ftop a laske,but alfo to repreffe the immoderat fux of womens montily terms: but in cafe 
the faid fluxions be exceffive and beyond all meafure vehement, they ar¢éto bee {upped off raw, 
with water and meale in manner of a grewell or pottage :or els the yelks may be boiled by thcm- 
felves in vinegre,untill they be hard; and then a fecond time be fried & torrified afterwards with 
grofle pepper, and in this fore hey will {tay any loofeneffe of the belly. And yet there is another 
fingular remedie for the bloudie flix, namely,to putthe meat of araw eggin a litle earthen pot 
that never was occupied,and to add therto as much hony as may amountto the quanritie of the 
egg.to theend thar all be of equall proportion; then, within a while after, to temper therewith 
_ D the like meafure of vinegre andoile both,andtobeatthem all togither oftentimes that they may 
be wellconcorporat and united in one. In whichcompofition, this isto bee obferved, That the 
better that every one of thefe ingredients is that enter into this confection, the more excellent 
operation and {peedier remedie will enfue theupon.Orhers there are,who in ftead of oile and vi- 
negre,put in redrofin and wine,according to the former rate and proportion: howbeit they tem- 
perthefaid medicine after another fort ; for they putin of oile, onely as much as the egg comes 
too, adding thereto of the pine-tree barke * two fixtie parts ofa Romane denier, andone tixti 
part of Sumach,which Ica!ledRhus,and five oboli weight of hony ; with this charge, Thatthey 
beall boiled rogither ;and that che patient eat no other meat whatfoever forthe fpace of foure 
hours after. Many there be, who tocure and eafe the wringing gripes andtorments of the belly, 
E take wo egs and foure cloves of garlicke, which they pun and ftampe togithers then they heat 
them over the fire in one hemine of wine,and give this mafhunto the patient forto drinke. To” 
C there be who thinke it better totake thefe egs thus mollified & refolved in vinegre,and tutorrifie | 
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grains. 
conclude, becaufe I would not willingly omit any thing that may commend egs and give grace © 
unto them, know thus much moreover, That the gleere or liquid white of an egg with quickesy- 
- Jime,maketh an excellent cement to fowder or unite any broke peeces of a glaffe copither: be- 
fides, of fuch ftrength and efficacie they are,that neither a peece of wood no nor fo rouch as any 
parcel] of cloth wet or dipped in the white of an egg will burn, but check the violence of the fire. 
Howbeit,note that all which I have fpoken or egs,isto be meant of thofethat hens ony do lay:for 
as touching other birds eges.I will write in their due places; for as muchrasthey are nordeftiture 
of many peculiar vertues and fingular properties of their owne. Over & belides, I will not over- 
P  pafle onekind of eggs befides which is in great name andrequeft in Fraunce, and whereof the 
Greeke authors have not written a word: and this is the ferpents egg, which the Latins call An- 
guinum. For in Summer tite verely,you thall {ee an infiait number of fnakes gather pound to- 
gither into an heape, entangled and enwrapped one within avother fo arcificially , aslam noe 
ableto expreffe the manner thereof: by the means therfore of the froth ox falivation which chey 
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