of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. ie 429 
A isbroughe out of Pontus: the fame alfo is white without any veines, ftrings,or skales, and verie 
~ quicklymelreth and refolveth. Now the fame ought firft to be cut or thred {mall,and then to lie 
infufed orin fteepe a whole day anda nightin water or vinegre, which done, to be puaned and 
beaten with the pebbles found about the fea fhore, thatthe fame may the fooner melt and dif- 
folve. This glue thus ordered, is held to be foveraigne for the headach: and a good thing to en- 
ter into thofe medicines or compofitions which are devifedto{mooth the skin and rid away the 
wrinckles.] Take the right eye of aFrog,lap it within a peece of felfe ruffet clorh{fuch as is made 
‘of blacke wooll as it came in the fleece from the fheepe) and hang it about the neck, itcureth the 
right eye,if irbe enflamed or bleared, And if the lefteye be fo affected,doe the like by the con- 
tratie eye of the {aid Frog,8¢c.Now,if it were poffible to plucke our thefe eyes as the Frog 1s en- 
B_ gendring,it would healeal{o the white cicatrices or skars in the cic, ifit were hung about the neck 
of the patient in like fort within an egefhel]. The reft of the Frogs flefh applied unto the eye, fuce 
keth out and confumeththe bloud that is congealed under the tunicles of the eyc, & lieth there 
blacke andblew. They affirme moreover, That the eyes of a crab orcraifith being hanged about 
the necke,are a foveraigne remedie for bleared eyes. ie 
A little Frog there is,delighting tolive moft among graffe and in*reed plots: mute the fame *Calamettr. 
is and never croakerh, greene alfo of colour: If Kine or Oxen chaunce to {wallow one of them 
downe with their grafle,it caufeth them to {well in the bellie, as if they were deaw blowne. And 
yet(they fay) that if the flime or moifture wherewith their bodiesbe charged outwardly,bee {cra- 
ped off with the edge of fome penknife, it cleareth the fight,if the eyes bee annointed therewith. 
C As forthe flefhitielfe, they lay it upon the eyes for to mitigat their paine, Purthermore, foie 
there are who take fifteene Frogs,pricke them with a rifh, and draw the fame through them, thae 
they may op thereto,which done,they put them in a newearthen pot: andthe humor or mol- 
fiurethat paffeth from them in this manner,they temperwith the juice or liquor which in man- 
ner of a guin iffucth out of the white vine Brionie wherewith they keep the eyelids from having 
any haires growing upon them.But firft they plucke up thofe diforderly haires which grew there 
to offend and hurt the eyes :and witha fine needle point drop the forefaid liquour into the very 
places wherethe haires were fetched out bythe roots, Meges the Chyrurgian deviled another 
depilatorie for to hinder the growing of haires,made of Frogs which hee killed in vinegre,& per- 
. mitted them therein to putrifie and refolve into moifture ; and for this purpofe his manner was 
D totake many frefh Frogs,even as they were engendred in any raine that fell during the Autumn, 
The fame depilatorie effedt,the afhes of Horfeleeches are fuppofed to have, if they bee reduced 
into alintment with vinegre,and ufed accordingly : Now mutt they bee burnt and calcined ina 
newearthen vefleli that never before was occupied. And of the like operation is the liver of the 
fea-fith Tznia,if the fame be dried,and thereof the weight of foure deniers Romane incorporat 
in-oile of Cedar to the forme of a liniment,for to annoint the haires of the eielids by the {pace of 
nine months together. : 
The freth gall of aRay or Skeat,yea,and the fame preferved and kept long in old wine,is an ex- 
cellent medicine for the eares : fo is the gall likewife of the fifh * Banchus, which fome call My- *zanchi, Some 
-xon: alfo of Callionymus the fifh aforelaid,it it be dropped into the eares with oile rolat : fem- *4dBaceti. 
E  blably,Caftoreumwith the juice of Poppie. There bealfo in the {ea certaine creepers erigendted, 
called Pedunculi,?.fea-lice which being flamped and tempered with vinegre,they give counfell 
to drop into the cares. Alfo a locke of woo]l died in the bloud of the purple fhellfith Conchyli- 
um,of itfelfe alone isa very good thing to be applied unto the cares : howbeitfome doe wet the 
fame in vinegre and falnitre mixed together. But the foveraigne remedic in the opinion of moft 
Phyficians for any greevance and infirmitie of the eares,is this,namely, Recépe of the beft fauce or 
pickle called Garum Sociorum that may be gotten, one cyath,of honey one cyath and an halfe, 
-of vinegre one cyath,feeth them all together gently over a foft fire in a newport, eftfoones skim- 
ming it in the boiling with a feather,;and when it hath left cafting up askum andis fufficiently pu- 
rified,take it from the fire: and of this deco€tion warme drop into the pained eares, Jf the earsbe 
F {welled withall,they ordaine and prefcribe to mitigat and afluage the fame firft,with the juice of 
Coriander, The fat of Frogs dropped into the eares, allaieth their paine prefently, The juice or 
decoGtion of craififhes incorporat with fine Barly meale,is a fingular and moft effectual falveto 
heale the wounds of the eares. A's for the {wellings or inflammations rifing behind the ears :there 
is nota beter thing to cure them, than to applic therto theafhes of Burrets {hels tempered with 
honey, 
