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* Stellionatus 
trime,as much 
as coufenage, 
or copycatch: 
ing, 
5) The tien B coldl To 
They fay moreover, thatthe fat which is fleeted or skimmed from the broth wherein dormi¢e Gi 
and rats be fodden, is excellent good for thofe that be afraidof the palfie, and{ubject thereto: 
alfo that Sowes ot Cheeflips called Millipedze, prepared and raken in drinke, in manneras | ap- 
pointed for the fquinancie, are fingular for thofe that find themfelves to be falne into a phthyfick 
orconfumption of the lungs: {ois a green lizard(by theirfaying)fodden in three fextars of wine, 
until] there be but one remaining, ifthe patient take thereof a {poonfull at a rime everic day,un- 
till he feele himfelfe warifhed and fully cured. Others affure us of as great etfeCt, by drinking the — 
athes of fheill-fnails in wine. dj 
_ Asforthe falling fickneffe, the tried greace of {weatie and unwafhed wooll tempered with Ly 
little myrrhe, fo thatthe quantitie of them both arife to the bigneffe of an hazell nut, cureth the 
fame, if it be taken infufed and diffolved in two cyaths of wine, prefently after the patient have 
fwet andbe come outof the baine. For the fame difeafe,they ordaine the cullions orftones of a 
ram which have been kept long and dried, to be reduced into powder to the weigit of halfe ade- 
nier Romane, and {o to be taken in water, or els in one hemine of affesmilke; howbeit with this 
charge, That the patient forbeare drinking of wine five daies after, andas many before. Further- 
more, they doe highly commend the drinking of fheeps bloud : likewife their gall in milke, buc 
principally if it be the gall ofa lambe:a fucking whelpeis verie good inthis cafe, if icbee taken 
wich wine and myrrhe; but firft che head and feet muft be cut away. Some for this purpofe drinke 
the furots or rough wets growing tothe leggs of a mule, in three cyaths of oxymell: others give 
order to drinke in vinegre the afhes of the ftar-lizard Stellion, which breedeth beyond-fea:and | 
thetender skin or flough of the faid lizard (which fhe cafteth in the fame maner asafnake doth) 
taken in drinke, helpeth much. Some phyficians are fo venterous and bold,that they have given 
unto thofe who be {ubject to the falling fickneffe, the verie Stellion it felfe,atter ir is rid and clen- 
fedttom the garbage or guts, and fo kept dried ; appointing their patients to drinke the powder 
therof in fome convenient liquor, through a pipe of a cane: others appoint itto be rofted upon 
a wooden broch or {pit, and{o to bee eaten for meat, And feeing I have occafion thus to write 
ofthis Stellio, and the skin thereof, it were very convenient and neceflarie in this place to thew 
the manner how the faid flough (which is growne over him in winter) may be gottentrom him 
when he hath turned himfelfe out of it, confidering that he ufeth commenly to devoure and eat 
it himfelfe, becaufe it fhould not doe any man good; for thereis not a beaftagain more {pight- 
full co mankind, and envious of our commoditie: infomuch as this word * Stelliois growne to 
be areprachfull tearme among us. Well, to meet with this skin of his (ascraftie as hee isto be- 
guile men of it) they ufe to obferve in hot fummer daies, his neftling hole yd which heis wont 
toretire himfelfe; and ordinarily they find it to be in fome hollow crannies about doores & win- 
dows, or elfe under vaults and fepulchres: when they have efpied where it is, chey wait for the 
ptime of the Spring, they fer jultagainft his hole certaine little cages or leaps made of cloven 
and flived reeds,and the {ame wroughtand woven good and thicke: and if very truth, he deligh- 
teth to get betweene the ftreights and narrow paflages of the ftaves and windings, whercof the 
faid cages are made, for by means thereof he may the better flip himfelfe our of that coat which 
cloggeth his bodie and maketh him unweldie: and thus in getting through the faid lattices, he 
leaveth the fame behind him: bur after he hath thus done, hard befted he 1s,for backehe cannot 
the fame way againe for to ear the faid flough. Certes, there is nota medicine preferred before 
it, for the falling ficknefle: and yet good reckoning there is made of the brains of weazils which 
have been kept and dried; yea and of the liver fo prepared, ifthey beredutedinto powder and 
fo taken in drinke: yea their very genetoits, andbagg or matrice wherein they bear¢and breed 
"their young ; or their maw likewife faved, dried, and condite with coriander {eed, are fingular 
good for this inaladie, as I have heretofore noted : and fo ate their afhes, Some are of opinion, 
that itis good eating of them whole as they be, efpecially the wild kind,without any fuch prepa- 
ring and dreffing : but others efteeme ferrets to be as effeQuall as they, for the falling evill.More- 
over, itis faid, that the greene lizard eaten with fome fharpe fauce that quickneth appetit, is fin- 
gular good in this cafe, but the heads and feet mutt be firft taken away. Moreover, the afhesof M 
{hell-{nailstogither with line-{ced and nettle-feed brought into the forme ofa liniment with ho- 
ney, cure thofe throughly of this difeafe who are all over annointed therewith. But 1 like better 
yer,that for this maladie one fhould carrie about him thetaile of a dragon boundwithinabucke _ | 
or does skin tofome part of his bodie,withthe finews ofa ftag or hind: or els totieuntothe left | 
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