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EEMEDIES FOR POISOKS. 
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however, to conclude that all their medicinal properties must 
be much more highly developed than in the animal as found 
among us. It is asserted also, that cows' milk is a general 
counter-poison, in the cases above-mentioned, more particularly, 
as also where the poison of ephemeron^^ has settled internally, 
or cantharides have been administered ; it acting upon the 
poison by vomit. Eroth, too, made from goats' flesh, neutral- 
izes the effects of cantharides, in a similar manner, it is said. 
To counteract the corrosive poisons which destroy by ulcer- 
ation, veal or beef-suet is resorted to ; and in cases where a 
leech has been swallowed, butter is the usual remedy, with 
vinegar heated with a red-hot iron. Indeed, butter employed, 
by itself is a good remedy for poisons, for where oil is not 
to be procured, it is an excellent substitute for it. Used with 
honey, butter heals injuries inflicted by millepedes. The 
broth of boiled tripe, it is thought, is an effectual repellent of 
the above-mentioned poisons, aconite and hemlock more par- 
ticularly ; veal- suet also has a similar repute. 
Fresh goats' milk cheese is given to persons who have taken 
mistletoe, and goats' milk itself is a remedy for cantharides. 
Taken with Taminian^® grapes, goats' milk is an antidote to the 
effects of ephemeron. Goats' blood, boiled down with the mar- 
row, is used as a remedy for the narcotic^^ poisons, and kids' blood 
for the other poisons. Kid's rennet is administered where per- 
sons have taken mistletoe, the juice of the white chamseleon,^® 
or bull's blood ; for which last, hare's rennet in vinegar is also 
used by way of antidote. For injuries inflicted by the pasti- 
naca,^^ and the stings or bites of all kinds of marine animals, 
hare's rennet, kid's rennet, or lamb's rennet is taken, in doses 
of one drachma, in wine. Hare's rennet, too, generally forms 
an ingredient in the antidotes for poisons. 
The moth that is seen fluttering about the flame of a lamp 
is generally reckoned in the number of the noxious substances : 
its bad effects are neutralized by the agency of goat's liver. 
Goat's gall, too, is looked upon as an antidote to venomous 
25 See B. XXV. c. 107, and B. xxvi. c. 75. 
26 See B. xxiii. cc. 13, 14. 
2"^ Toxica" — properly, those poisons in Tvhicli the barbarous nations 
dipped their arrows. 
28 See B. xxii. c. 21. 29 Or, sting-ray. 
