Chap. 21.] EEMEBIES DERIVED EKOM WOMAN'S MILK. 303 
defluxions of the eyes. If a frog^^ has spirted its secretions''''' 
into the eye, woman^s milk is a most excellent remedy ; and 
for the bite of that reptile it is used both internally and ex- 
ternally. 
It is asserted that if a person is rubbed at the same moment 
with the milk of both mother and daughter, he will be proof 
for the rest of his life against all affections of the eyes. 
Mixed with a small quantity of oil, woman's milk is a cure for 
diseases of the ears; and if they are in pain from the effects 
of a blow, it is applied warm with goose-grease. If the ears 
emit an offensive smell, a thing that is mostly the case in 
diseases of long standing, wool is introduced into those organs, 
steeped in woman's milk and honey. While symptoms of 
jaundice are still visible in the eyes, woman's milk is injected, 
in combination with elaterium.^^ Taken as a drink, it is pro- 
ductive of singularly good effects, where the poison of the 
sea-hare, the buprestis,'-^^ or, as Aristotle tells us, the plant 
dorycnium^^ has been administered ; as a preventive also of the 
madness produced by taking henbane. Woman's milk also, 
mixed with hemlock, is recommended as a liniment for gout ; 
while some there are who employ it for that purpose in com- 
bination with wool-grease^^ or goose-grease ; a form in which 
it is used as an application for pains in the uterus. Taken as 
a drink, it arrests diarrhoea, Eabirius^^ says, and acts as an 
emmenagogue ; but where the woman has been delivered of a 
female child, her milk is of use only for the cure of face 
diseases. 
Woman's milk is also a cure for affections of the lungs ; and, 
mixed with the urine of a youth who has not arrived at pu- 
berty, and Attic honey, in the proportion of one spoonful 
of each, it removes singing in the ears, I find. Dogs which 
have once tasted the milk of a woman who has been delivered 
of a male child, will never become mad, they say. 
26 " Eana." He means the ^'rubeta" probably, or " bramble-frog/' 
so often mentioned by him. See Note 84, p. 290. 
" Salivam." 28 gge B. xx. c. 2. 
29 See B. XXX. c. 10. Latreille has written a very able treatise on the 
Buprestis of the ancients, and considers it to belong to the family of Can- 
tharides. Annates du 3Iuseum dVilstoire Naturelle^ Vol. xix. p. 129, et seq, 
2^ Convolvulus dorycnium ; see B. xxi. c. 105^ and B. xxiii. c. 18. 
31 ''(Esypum." See B- xxx. c. 23. 
3'^ Possibly the Epic writer of that name,, mentioned by Ovid, Seneca, 
Quintilian, and Yelleius Puterculus. 
