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REMEDIES EOE THE EAES. 
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and with woman's milk, for rupture of the coats of the eye. 
For all these purposes, the gall is considered the most effica- 
cious, when dried. I^or is the dung of this animal held in 
disesteem, being applied with honey for defluxions of the eyes. 
The marrow, too, of a goat, or a hare's lights, we find used 
for pains in the eyes; and the gall of a goat, with raisin wine 
or honey, for the dispersion of films upon those organs. It is 
recommended also, for ophthalmia, to anoint the eyes with 
wolf's fat or swine's marrow : we find it asserted, too, that per- 
sons who carry a wolf's tongue, inserted in a bracelet, will 
always be exempt from ophthalmia. 
CHAP. 48. REMEDIES FOR DISEASES Al^D AFEECTIOKS OF 
THE EARS. 
Pains and diseases of the ears are cured by using the urine 
of a wild boar, kept in a glass vessel, or the gall of a wild 
boar, swine, or ox, mixed with castor-oil and oil of roses in 
equal proportions. But the best remedy of all is bull's gall, 
warmed with leek juice, or with honey, if there is any suppu- 
ration. Bull's gall too, warmed by itself in a pomegranate 
rind, is an excellent remedy for ofiensive exhalations from the 
ears : in combination with woman's milk, it is efficacious as a 
cure for ruptures of those organs. Some persons are of opinion 
that it is a good plan to wash the ears with this preparation in 
cases where the hearing is affected ; while others again, after 
washing the ears with warm water, insert a mixture composed 
of the old slough of a serpent and vinegar, wrapped up in a 
dossil of wool. In cases, however, where the deafness is very 
considerable, gall warmed in a pomegranate rind with myrrh 
and rue, is injected into the ears; sometimes, also, fat bacon 
is used for this purpose, or fresh asses' dung, mixed with oil 
of roses: in all cases, however, the ingredients should be 
warmed. 
The foam from a horse's mouth is better still, or the ashes 
of fresh horse dung, mixed with oil of roses : fresh butter too 
is good ; beef- suet mixed with goose-grease ; the urine of a 
bull or she-goat ; or fullers' lant, heated to such a degree that 
the steam escapes by the neck of the vessel. For this purpose 
also, one third part of vinegar is mixed with a small portion of 
the urine of a calf, which has not begun to graze. They apply 
also to the ears calf's dung, mixed with the gall of that animal 
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