of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. : AAG 
A ina lethargie+ fo doth fith-glew Ichthyocolla, Such as are given tothe fhaking and trembling 
of their lims, find much benefit by Caftoreum, if they beerubbed and annointed with itand 
oile rogither, I read, that Barbles are hurtfull meat forthe finews: and many aze of opinion,that _ 
as much feeding upon fitlh* caufeth bleeding, fo the fame may be ftaunchied with the poulpe or * Sanguinem 
pourcuttle,if it bee ftamped and applied to the place: of which fifh, thusmuch moreover isre- 
ported, That of himfelfe he yeeldeth a certaine falt pickle, andtherefore there fhould be no fale 
putinto the liquout while hec is {eething: Jem, that it ought to bee fliced and cut with an edged 
reed ; for with an yron knife it wil! cake inteCtion, and the nature of it is fuch as to* keepe and re- * Recinente, 
taine it {till.For the ftaunching of bloud,they ufe allo the afhes of frogs,or elfe their blond dried, 
to be applied accordingly. But fome would have the afhesto be made of thatkind of frog which 
B the Greeks name Calamites, becaufe it liveth among reeds, buthes and {hrubs,and of all others 
is the leaft and greeneft: and yet many doe ordaine, if the flux of bloudbe from the nofthrils, to 
take the afhes of young frogs breeding inthe water,whiles they be tadpoles and have little wrig- 
gling tailes,(and thofe mutt be calcined for that purpofe in aneweaithen veffell) and to put up 
thefaid afhes into the nofe.On the contrarie fide the ho:fleeches which wee call in Latine San- 
guilugas, (4. Bloudiuckers] are ufed forto draw bloud, And verily itis jadged,thatthere is che 
famereaton of them, as of ventofes and cupping-glaffes ufed in phyficke,for to eafe & difcharge 
the bodie of bloud, and to open the pores of the skin, But here is allthe harine and difcomino- 
ditie of thefe horfleeches, That ifthey be once fet too for to draw bloud the bodie will looke for 
the fame phyficke againe everic yeere after,about the fame time,and be ill ateafe tor want there- 
_ © of. Many phyficians have thoughtit good co ule them for the gout of the feer aifo. Well, fet 
them tothe hemorrhoids, and where you will, they fall off lightly when they are full and {atif- 
fied, even with the verie weight of the bloud which pulleth chem down; or elfe by fitewing foine 
falc about the place where they fticketoo:and otherwhiles it falleth out, that they leave their 
heads behind them faft fixed in the place where they fettled,and by that means make the wound 
incurable and mortall, whichhath coft many aman his life: asit happened to Mefvalinus anc- 
ble man of Rome, and who in his time had been a-Confull, whofe fortune it was to die thereup- 
on, having fet them to hisknee: whereby we may fee, that oftentinies they bring a mifchiefe for 
a remedie:and the red ones arethey that in this refpect ought to be feared. To preventtherfore 
this daungerous inconvenience, they ufe with apaire of fizzers toclip them at the verie mouth 
D asthey be fircking ; and then fhall you feethe bloud {pring out,asit were at the cocke of acon- 
duit, andfo by little and little as they die, they will gather in their heads, andthe fame will fall off; 
and not tarrie behind todoe burt. Fhefe horlleeches naturally are enemies to Punaifes, info 
much as their perfume killeth them. Furthermore, the afhes of Levers skinsburnt and calcined 
togither with tar, Rauncheth bloud guthing out of the nofe, ifthe fame bee tempered and min- 
gled well with the juice of porret. The fhells of cuttles applied to the bodie with water, draw 
forth arrow heads, pricks, or {pills, that fticke deepe within the fleth: fo doth any falefith ifthe 
flethie fide be laid thereto ; yea and fre{h-water creififhes have the fame efie@ : likewife the fleth 
of the frefh water Silurus (for chis fiflybreedeth in other rivers befides Nilus) applied to the 
place, either frefh or falted it makes no matter, worke withthe fame fucceffe., The athes of the 
E {ame fith, and the fat, bee of the fame operation, and verie attractive, As forthe afhes of theit 
tidge-bone and prickic finns, they are taken to bee as good as Spodium, and are ufedin ftead 
thereof. As touching thofe ulcers which bee corrofive;as alfo the excrefcence of prowd flefh 
growing infuch fores, there is nota beter thing to repreffe and keepe them downe, than the 
afhesof Cackerels or the fith Silurus aforefaid. The heads of falced Pearches be fingular good 
for cancerous ulcers: and the more effectually they will worke, in cafe there be falc mingled with 
their afhes,andtogither with knopped Majoram or Savorieand oile, be incorporatintoa lini- 
ment. Theafhes of the Sea-crab burnt and calcined with lead, reprefle cancerous fores:and 
for this purpofe, futticient it were to take the afhes onely of the river creififh, medled with honey 
and lint: butfomechuferather to mingle alumeand honey withthe {aid afhes, As forthe ea- 
F ting fores called in Greeke Phagedzenx, they may be healed well with the fith Silurus, keptun- 
till itbe dried, and fo togither with red orpiment, reduced into a powder, Likewife morimals; 
and other confuming cankers, and thofe fores which be filthie and growing to putrefaction, are 
commonly healed with the old {quares of the Tunie fith. Nowif there chaunce to bee wormes 
and vermine breed in the faid ulcers;the onely meansto cleanfe them is with the gall of froggs. 
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