of Plintes Naturall Hiftorie. 297 
A werebarraine before,to be fruitful. Certes,the greace of a goofe or fwan;doth mollifieany hard 
tumors, (chitrhs, and impoftumnations of the matrice and fecret parts. Goofe greace mixed with 
the oile of rofesand * Ireos, *preferveth womens breafts.afterthey benewlybrougheto bed. In + jino, a: fol 
- Phrygiaand Lycaonia, itis found by experience, thatthe far ofthe Biftard or Horne-owle,is ve- heads 
rie good for greene women lately delivered; if they bee troubled with the pricking ot (hooting Pecan, x2 
pains of their breafts: but for women thatare in daungertobee fuffocated withthe rifting of the icisin mot 
-imother, they havea liniment alfo made with the beetils or worms called Blatt, The ‘athesiof Wre8* 
Partridge eg-fhells calcined; mixed with brafle-ore called Cadmia,and.wax, aiid fo reduced itt ting, bardaes, 
toa cerot, preferveth womens breafts plumpe and round,thac they: fhall not’ be riveled of flag. oF the “ens 
gie :and it isthought, that if a woman make three imaginarie circles roundabout them witha ouicy 
B Partridge egg, they fhall continue knitup and well trufled;and not hang downeward illfavou- 
redly:leta woman ufeto fup them off, fhe (hall be botha fruictull mother of many children,and 
alfo a good milch nource for to teare them up; Alfoitisa general received opinion, thatif wo- 
mens paps be annointed all over with goofe gteace,it will allaythe griefe and paine therof:like- 
wife there is nota betterthing for to diffolve and {carter moon: calves andiuch likefalfe concep- 
tions in the wombe: or to mitigat the {curfe or manginefle incident to thatitember,than to ap- 
plyto thofe partsa liniment made of punaifes bruifed,or ftaniped: tothe purpofe, POUT 
» Batsbloud hath a depilatorie facultie to fetch off haire, and lett the gtowity thereof; how- 
beit, fufficient it isnot alone to worke that featimboyes cheeks and chitis whom we would keépe 
{mooth and beardleffe, except the place bee rubbed afterward with the feed of rocket and hem 
C locke:andin this manner if they be drefled, either no haire at all will comeup there, orelle it 
will never be but foftdowne. Ir is thought thar their brains:alfowill worke the fame effect, Now 
thefe brains be of two forts, to wit, red and white :howbei fome give counifell co mingle with the 
faid brains, both the bloud and the liver. Ochers therebe, who feethiin three hemines of oile, a 
viper, untill her fleth be throughly fodden.and.as tender asmay:be, having before rid herfrom 
all herbones; and itthey ufe for a depilatorie but firftthey plucke up all thofe hairs by the roots 
which they would not haveto grow any more, The gall of anurchin isa depilatorie, efpecially if 
it be mixed with the brains of a batt and goats milke :/tem, the: afhes thereof fimply, mingled 
with the milke of abitch of her firft litter; fo chatthe haires which wee would not have to‘come 
againe, beplucked up ; or if thofe placesbe anointed therwith:where never yet grew any, hone 
D fhall {pring there afterwards. The fame effe@ (by report) harhthe bloud of aticke that was taken 
fronya dog ; and finally, the bloud or gall of a {waliows | mi 
> Cuap. xv , daslate : 
e& Many receits handled togither diforderly one with another for fundrie maladies... 
T isfaid,that Ants eggs ftamped and incorporat with flies likewife punned togither, will give 
a lovely blacke colour to the hairs of the eyebrows: alfo, ifa woman be defirous thather' m= - 
fant fhould be borne with blacke eyes, let her cata ratwhiles the goes with’child. To preferve 
the haire from beeing grey or grifle, annoint them with the athes of earthworms and oile olive 
mixedtogither.If fucking babes bee wrung or gnawnein thebelly by reafon of fomecruddled mee 
milke which they draw from theit nources, or doth cortupt fo in their flomacke, it is good to Lilsi.k 
give them in water therennet of ayoung lambetodrinke : but in cafe this acciderteommeth by oo. 
cailling of the milke, they ufeto give unto them the faidrennet in vinegre}for todifcufie the 
fame.For the painethar they abide ip toothing, the brains of an * hareis foveraigrie-to annGilit * Leporis, of 
their gumbs withall.Itfalleth out that young infants many times bee tormented with an unm Fer" ae 
tural] heat and burning of their head,called Siriafis ; for toeafe and cure them thereof, theyufe fa 
totake the bones that are foundin doges dung,.and to hang them about their necks or armes. 
Young infants are fubje@ to ruptures and defcentsof the guts, in which cafeit is good (fome fay) 
to apply a greene lizard unto their bodies whiles they lie-afleep,and to caufeitrobite the places 
© burthen afterwards the faid lizard muft betied faftroa reed anid hung up inthefmoke:for looke 
how it decaieth and dieth by little and littlefo fhallthe rupture kiitand heale againe. The foa- 
mic moifture thar fhell-fnails yeeld, if childrens eyes be annointed therewith doth not onelyre- 
Gific and lay ftreight the hairs ofthe eyelids which growcrooked into the efes,but alfo nourifh: 
ethand caufeth them to grow. The afhes of burnethell-fnails redyced into a liniment with fran- 
Mm kincenfe 
