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ly. The floughs or skins that ferpents caft, calcined upon a tile or potfhard red hot,andfo redu- 
ced into athes and incorporat with honey,are very medicinable for all the accidents of the eares, 
__ ifthe famebe dropped into them; but principally when they ftinke or yeeld from them a ftrong 
with vinegre in ftead of hony : but beft of all with the gall of a Goat,a Boeufe,or a fea Tortoife, 
The forefaid floughs or skins if they bee above one yearé old, or have caught much wetbyraine 
and water, have loft their vertue and doeno good, as fome are of opinion. Moreover,theblou- 
die humor that commeth from a fpider, either tempered with oile of Rofes, orels alone by it 
felfe upon alocke of wooll, or with alittle Saffron, is very good for the eates : fo is the Cricket 
digged up and applied to the place earth andall where it lay. Nzgidés aceribuceth many pro- 
pettics to this poore creature,and efteemeth it nota little: but the Magicians much more a fair 
deale: and why fo? Forfooth becaufe it goeth as it were reculing backward, it pierceth and bo- 
reth an hole into the ground, and never ceafeth all night long to creake very thrill. The manner 
of hunting and catching them is this, They take a flie and tie irabour the middeft atthe end of 
| a Jong haire of ones head, and fo putthe faid fie into the mouth of the Crickets hole :but firft 
| they blow the duft away with their mouth, for feare leaft the flie fhould hide her felfe therein : 
| the Cricket {pies thefillie flie, feafeth upon her prefently and clafpeth her round, and fo they 
| are both drawne foorch together by the faid haire. The inner skin of a Hens gifier, which the 
cooke ufeth to caft away, ifit be kept and dried, and fo beater to pouder and mingled with wine, 
| is good to bee dropped or poured hote into the eares that run with matter : fois the faralfo of 
| *Which Pliny an Hen, There isa certainekind of fattineffe to bee found in the Flie or Infe called * Blatta, 
kind of scree When the headis plucked off, which if itbe punned and mixed with oile of Rofes,is(as they fay) 
- bes ot Beeile, Wonderful] good for the eares : but the wooll wherein this medicine is enwrapped, and which 
1s put into the cares, muft not long taric there, but within a little while be drawne forth againe; 
for the faid fac will very foone gétlife and provea grub or little worme, Some writers there be 
who affirme, That two or three of thefe flies called Blattz fodden in oile,make a foveraigne me- 
dicine to cure the eares: and thatif they bee {tamped and fpread upon alinnen rag and{oap- 
plied, they will heale the eares, if they bee hurt by any bruife or contufion: Certes thisisbut a 
naftieand illfavoured vermine, howbeic in regard of the manifold and admirable properties 
which naturally it hath, as alforof the induftrie of our aunceftours in fearching out the nature 
of it, lam mooved to write thereof at largeand tothe full inthis place. For they have deferi- 
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tle and broad {nailes brought into the forme of aliniment with honey,and laid too according- G 
favour: Butif they bee full of purulent matter,andrun withall, it were better to rninglethe fame 
bed many kinds of them. In the firft place, fome of them be foft and tender, which being fod- - 
den in oile,they have proved by experiencetobe of great efficacic in fetching off werts, if they 
be annointed therewith. A fecondfort there is,which they call Myloecon, becaufe ordinarily it 
haunteth about mils and bake-houfes, and there breedeth : thefe, by the report of Wufa and 
Pyéton two famous Phyficians, beeing bruifed (after their heads were gone) and applied to a 
bodie infected with the leprofie, cured the fame perfitely. They of a third kind,befides that they 
be otherwife illfavored ynough, cariea lothfome and odious finell with them : they are fharpe 
rumped and pin buttockt alfo : howbeit, beeing incorporat with the oile of pitch called Piffe- 
lzon,they have healed thofe ulcers which were thought, Nunquam cna, and incurable. Alfo 
within one and twentie daies after this plaftre laid too, it hath been knowne to cute the {welling 
wens called the Kings evill: the botches or bilesnamed Pani, wounds, contufions, bruifes, mo- 
riaals, fcabs, and fellons :butthen their feet and wings were plucked offandcaft away. 1 make 
no doubt or queftion, but that fome of us are fo daintie and fine eared, that our ftomacke ri- 
fech at the hearing onely of {uch medicines ; and yet I affure you, Diodorws a renowmed Phy- 
fician, reporteth, Thathee hath given thefe foure flies inwardly with rofin and honey, forthe 
jaundife, and to thofe that werefo ftreight winded that they could not draw their breath butfic-_ 
ting upright. See wharlibertie and power overusthefe Phyficians have, who to practife and _ 
trie conclufions upon our bodies, may exhibit unto their patients, what they lift, bee itne- 
ver fo homely, fo it goe under the name of a medicine’. Howbeit, fome of the more civile 
ae fort, and who carried with them a better regard of manhood and humanitie, thought it bet- 
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take theirwind for the ufesabovenamed, Others alfowould beat them/(after they were dried) into ponder, and 
sabe uP minifter them in manner of aclyftre unto thofe that were *Orthopnoicke and Rhenmaticke, 
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ter and amorecleanely kind of Phyficke,to referve in boxes of horne the afhes of them burnt, 
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