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Chap. 9.] EEMEDTES DERIYED mOM THE HUMA"Nr HAIR. 2!) I 
may be prevailed upon by his prayers, not to follow, as the 
destroyer of his glory, close upon his back. 
CHAP. 8. REMEDIES DERIVED EROM THE WAX OE THE HUMAN 
EAR. 
The human bite is also looked upon as one of the most dan- 
gerous of all. The proper remedy for it is human ear-wax ; 
a thing that w^e must not be surprised at, seeing that, if ap- 
plied immediately, it is a cure for the stings of scorpions even, 
and serpents. The best, however, for this purpose, is that 
taken from the ears of the wounded person. Agnails, too, 
it is said, may be cured in a similar manner. A human tooth, 
reduced to powder, is a cure,' they say, for the sting of a ser- 
pent. 
CHAP. 9. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE HUMAN HAIR, 
TEETH, ETC. 
The first hair, it is said, that is cut from an infant's head, 
and, in fact, the hair of all persons that have not reached the 
age of puberty, attached to the limbs, will modify the attacks 
of gout. A man's hair, applied with vinegar, is a cure for the 
bite of a dog, and, used with oil or wine, for wounds on the 
head. It is said, too, if we choose to believe it, that the hair 
of a man torn down from the cross, is good for quartan fevers. 
Ashes, too, of burnt human hair are curative of carcinomata. 
If a woman takes the first tooth that a child has shed, provided 
it has not touched the ground, and has it set in a bracelet, and 
wears it constantly upon her arm, it will preserve her from 
all pains in the uterus and adjacent parts. If the great toe 
is tied fast to the one next to it, it will reduce tumours in the 
groin ; and if the two middle fingers of the right hand are 
slightly bound together with a linen thread, it will act as a 
preservative against catarrhs and ophthalmia. A stone, it is 
said, that has been voided by a patient sufiering from calculi, 
if attached to the body above the pubes, will alleviate the 
pains of others similarly afflicted, as well as pains in the liver ; 
it will have the effect, also, of facilitating delivery. Granius^^ 
adds, however, that for this last purpose, the stone will be more 
efficacious if it has been extracted with the knife. Delivery, 
when near at hand, will be accelerated, if the man b}^ whom 
See end of the present Book. 
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