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and sloughs of serpents, care being taken to warm the ears be- 
fore the application, and all the remedies being wrapped in 
wool. Veal-suet, too, is used, with goose-grease and extract of 
ocimum ; or else veal marrow, mixed with bruised cummin 
and injected into the ears. For pains in the ears, the liquid 
ejected by a boar in copulation is used, due care being taken to 
receive it before it falls to the ground. For fractures of the 
ears, a glutinous composition is made from the genitals of a 
calf, which is dissolved in water when used ; and for other 
diseases of those organs, foxes' fat is employed, goat's gall 
mixed with rose-oil warmed, or else extracted juice of leeks : 
in all cases where there is any rupture, these preparations are 
used in combination with woman's milk. Where a patient is 
suffering from hardness of hearing, ox-gall is employed, with 
the urine of a he or she-goat ; the same, too, where there is 
any suppuration. 
Whatever the purpose for which they are wanted, it is the 
general opinion that these substances are more efficacious when 
they have been smoked in a goat's horn for twenty days. 
Hare's rennet, too, is highly spoken of, taken in Aminean*^ 
wine, in the proportion of one third of a denarius of rennet to 
one half of a denarius of sacopenum.*^ Eears' grease, mixed 
with equal proportions of wax and bull-suet, is a cure for 
imposthumes of the parotid glands : some persons add hy- 
pocisthis*^ to the composition, or else content themselves with 
employing butter only, after first fomenting the parts affected 
with a decoction of fenugreek, the good effects of which are 
augmented by strychnos. The testes, too, of the fox, are very 
useful for this purpose ; as also bull's blood, dried and reduced 
to powder. She-goats' urine, made warm, is used as an injec- 
tion for the ears ; and a liniment is made of the dung of those 
animals, in combination with axle-grease. 
CHAP. 49. REMEDIES FOR TOOTH- ACHE. 
The ashes of deer's horns strengthen loose teeth and allay 
tooth-ache, used either as a friction or as a gargle. Some persons, 
however, are of opinion that the horn, unburnt and reduced to 
powder, is still more efficacious for all these purposes. Denti- 
frices are made both from the powder and the ashes. Another 
^ See B. xiv. c. 4. ^ See B. xx. c. 75. 
*3 See B. XX vi. c. 31. 
