Chap. 20.] EEMEDIES DEBITED FROM FEMALES. 
301 
care being taken to apply it immediately, and unmixed with 
anything else ; in such cases as the bite of a dog, for instance, 
or the quiU'of a hedge-hog entering the flesh, a sponge or 
some wool being the vehicle in which it is applied. Kneaded 
up with ashes, it is good for the bite of a mad dog, and for the 
cure of stings inflicted by serpents. As to the bite of the 
scolopendra, the effects of urine are said to be quite mar- 
vellous — the person who has been injured has only to touch 
the crown of his head with a drop of his own urine, and he 
will experience an instantaneous cure. 
CHAP. 19. INDICATIOI^S OF HEALTH DEEIVED FKOM THE T7KINB. 
Certain indications of the health are furnished by the urine. 
Thus, for example, if it is white at first in the morning and 
afterwards high-coloured, the first signifies that the digestion is 
going on, the last that it is completed. When the urine is red, 
it is a bad sign ; but when it is swarthy, it is the worst sign 
of all. So, too, when it is thick or full of bubbles, it is a bad 
sign ; and when a white sediment forms, it is a symptom of 
pains in the region of the viscera or in the joints. A green- 
coloured urine is indicative of disease of the viscera, a pale urine 
of biliousness, and a red urine of some distemper in the blood. 
The urine is in a bad state, too, when certain objects form in 
it, like bran or fine clouds in appearance. A thin, white, urine 
also is in a diseased state ; but when it is thick and possessed 
of an offensive smell, it is significant of approaching death : so, 
too, when with children it is thin and watery. 
The adepts in magic expressly forbid a person, when about 
to make water, to uncover the body in the face of the sun^^ or 
moon, or to sprinkle with his urine the shadow of any object 
whatsoever. Hesiod^^ gives a precept, recommending persons to 
make water against an object standing full before them, that no 
divinity may be offended by their nakedness being uncovered. 
Osthanes maintains that every one who drops some urine 
upon his foot in the morning will be proof against all noxious 
medicaments. 
CHAP. 20. (7.) FOETT-OI^E EEMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE 
FEMALE SEX. 
The remedies said to be derived from the bodies of females 
22 This was also one of the Pythagorean precepts. 
23 Works and Days, 1. 727, et seq. 
