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PLINY*S KATTJEAL HI8T0ET. . [Book XXVIII. 
efficacious, used in combination with gith, sulphur, and iris; this 
mixture being also employed, with goose-grease, stag's marrow, 
resin, and lime, for the cure of cracked lips. I find it stated 
by certain authors, that persons who have freckles on the skin 
are looked upon as disqualified from taking any part in the 
sacrifices prescribed by the magic art. 
CUAP. 51. KEMEDIES TDK DISEASES OF THE TON SILLAEY GLANDS, 
AND FOR SCEOFULA. 
Cow's milk or goat's milk is good for ulcerations of the 
tonsillar}'^ glands and of the trachea. It is used in the form of 
a gargle, warm from the udder or heated, goat's milk being 
the best, boiled with mallows and a little salt. A broth made 
from tripe is an excellent gargle for ulcerations of the tongue and 
trachea; and for diseases of the tonsillary glands, the kidneys of a 
fox are considered a sovereign remedy, dried and beaten up with 
honey, and applied externally. For quinzy, bull's gall or goat's 
gall is used, mixed wdth honey. A badger's liver, taken in 
water, is good for offensive breath, and butter has a healing 
effect upon ulcerations of the mouth. When a pointed or 
other substance has stuck in the throat, by rubbing it exter- 
nally with cats' dung, the substance, they say, will either come 
up again or pass downwards into the stomach. 
Scrofulous sores are dispersed by applying the gall of a wild 
boar or of an ox, warmed for the purpose : but it is only when the 
sores are ulcerated that hare's rennet is used, applied in a linen 
cloth with wine. The ashes of the burnt hoof of an ass or 
horse, applied with oil or water, is good for dispersing scrofu- 
lous sores ; warmed urine also ; the ashes of an ox's hoof, 
taken in water; cow- dung, applied hot with vinegar ; goat- 
suet with lime ; goats' dung, boiled in vinegar ; or the testes 
of a fox. Soap,^^ too, is very useful for this purpose, an 
invention of the Gauls for giving a reddish^^ tint to the hair. 
This substance is prepared from tallow and ashes, the best ashes 
for the purpose being those of the beech and yoke-elm : there 
are two kinds of it, the hard soap and the liquid, both of them 
much used by the people of Germany, the men, in particular, 
more than the women. 
5* See Beckmann's Sist. Im. 11. 92-3, Bohn's Ed., where this sub- 
ject is treated at considerable length. 
*' Rutilandis capillis." 
