of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 395 
A goe notoverdeepe.For the fame Morphew,many give order to make a liniment with flies & the 
rootof dockes, and herewith to annoint the places infected with this Morphew :alfo, to applie 
thereto hensdung, I meane as much thereof as is white : for which purpofe they keepe the fame 
in oile within horne boxes, for to ferve the turne as need requireth. Likewife, to annoint them 
with the bloud of bats, or the gall of an urchin tempered with water. As for the running skals, 
the braines of a {critch-owle is very good, incorporat with falcpetre : butdogs bloud hath no 
fellow to repreffe the fame: like as to kill the itch, the little broad {nailes famped and brought 
into alimiment,are {overaigne. Ifthere bee any {pill or fhiver of arrowes, if any peece of a dart 
or whatfoever elfe {ticke within the flefh, which would bee gotten forth, {plit alive moufe in the 
middeft, and lay che fame hotto the place, you hall fee how ic will draw the fame out. Buta Lie 
B zard paffethall the reft, being in this wife flit along and divided: or if the head onely be ftamped 
with falt,and applied accordingly. There be certaine fhell-{nailes that creepein ttoupes together 
for to devour the young fpring and greene leaves of plants ,which ferve to this effect, if they bee 
puaned with their fhels and laid to the place. Thofe alfo that we ufe to drefleand eat, if they be ta- 
ken forth of their fhels: but if you put thereto the rennet of ayoung hare orleveret, it iswoon- 
derfull to fee how effeQually they will worke, Snakes bones incorporat with the rennet of any four 
footed beaft whatfoever, within lefle than three daies fhew the fame effect, and draw foorth any 
thing thar fticketh within the bodie, Finally,the flies called Cantharides are much commended 
forthis operation, if they be {tamped and incorporat with barley meale. 
Cc ve Cuap, X1111 : 
2& Proper remedies for the cure of womens malagtes : and to helpe thers for to goe 
out their fuil time,and bring forth the fruit of their wombe fully 
ripe and accomplifhed. 
“THe skin or fecundine which an Ewe gleaneth after fhee hath yeaned, and which enlapped 
-§ the lambewithin her bellie, prepared, ordered, and ufed (asI {aid before) as touching 
goats, is very good for the infirmities that properly be incident unto women and occafio- 
ned by their natural! parts. The dung likewife of (heepe, bee they rams, ewes,or weathers, hath 
the fame operation,Burto come unto particulars,the infirmity which otherwhilesputteth them 
_ D topatle their urine with ditficulrie and by dropmeale, is cured principally by firtirtgover a per- 
fume or futfumigation of Locufts.If a woman after that fhe is conceived with child,ufgeftfoons 
to eatadifhof meat made of cock ftones, the infant that fhe goeth with fhall prove a manchild; 
as itis commonly thought and {poken. When a woman is with child,the meanes to preferve her 
from any fhift and {lip that fhe may.arie out her full tearme,is to drinke the afhes of Porkepines 
calcined : alfo the drinking of a bitches milke maketh the infant within the wombeto comeon 
forward and to growto perfection, before it feeke to come forth untimely, Alfo,if the child fticke - “ 
inthe birth, or otherwifeinake no haftto come foorth of the mothers bodie when the time is 
come : the skin wherein the bitch bare her whelpes within her bodie, and which commeth away 
_ from her after fhe hath puppicd,hafteneth the birth, if fo be it were taken away from her before it 
E touched the ground, ws gt: 
“Tf women in labour drinke milke, it will comfort their Joines or {mall of the back. Mice dung 
delaied and diffolved tn raine water, is very good to annoint the breafts of a woman,new laid, for 
to breake their kernel!,and to allay their overmuch ftrutting prefently after childbirth. The afhes 
of hedgehogs preferveth women from abortion or untimely births, if they beannointed with a 
liniment made of them and oile incorporat together. The better fpeed and more eafe (hall thofe 
women have of deliverance, which in the time of their travaile dtinke a draught of Goofe dung 
in two cyatlis of water: or elfe the water that iffueth out of their owne bodie by the natural] parts 
a little before the child fhould bee borne,and that out of a weazils bladder, A liniment made of 
earth-wormes, if the nouch orchineof the necke andthe fhoulderblades bee annointed there- 
F  with,preferveth a woman from the paine of the finewes,which commonly followeth upon child 
bearing : And the fame fend away theafter-birth,ifwhen they bee *newly brought tobed, they *Graviduaip 
drinke the fame in wine cuit. A cataplafme made of them fimply alone without any other thing, paar) 
and applied unto womens fore breafts which are impoftumate, bring the fameto maturation, 
breake them when they are ripe, drawthemafter that they run, & in theend heale them up clean 
and 
