Chap. 53.] 
REMEDIES rOR COUGH. 
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CHAP. 52. REMEDIES FOR PAINTS m THE NECR. 
Por pains in the neck, the part should be well rubbed with 
butter or bears' grease ; and for a stiff neck, with beef suet, a 
substance which, in combination with oil, is very useful for 
the cure of scrofula. For the painful cramp, attended with 
inflexibility, to which people give the name of opisthotony," 
the urine of a she-goat, injected into the ears, is found very 
useful ; as also a liniment made of the dung of that animal, 
mixed with bulbs. 
In cases where the nails have been crushed, it is an excel- 
lent plan to attach to them the gall of any kind of animal. 
"Whitlows upon the fingers should be treated with dried 
bull's gall, dissolved in warm water. Some persons are in the 
habit of adding sulphur and alum, of each an equal weight. 
CHAP. 53. REMEDIES FOR COUGH AND FOR SPITTING OF BLOOD. 
A. wolf's liver, administered in mulled wine, is a cure for 
cough ; a bear's gall also, mixed with honey ; the ashes of the 
tips of a cow's horn ; or else the saliva of a horse, taken in the 
drink for three consecutive days — in which last case the horse 
will be sure to die, they say.^ A deer's lights are useful for 
the same purpose, dried with the gullet of the animal in the 
smoke, and then beaten up with honey, and taken daily as an 
electuary : the spitter^^ deer, be it remarked, is the kind that 
is the most efficacious for the purpose. 
Spitting of blood is cured by taking ashes of burnt deer's 
horns, or else a hare's rennet in drink, in doses of one-third 
of a denarius, with Samian earth and myrtle- wine. The dung 
of this last animal, reduced to ashes and taken in the evening, 
with wine, is good for coughs that are recurrent at night. 
The smoke, too, of a hare's fur, inhaled, has the effect of bring- 
ing off from the lungs such humours as are difficult to be dis- 
charged by expectoration. Purulent ulcerations of the chest 
and lungs, and bad breath proceeding from a morbid state of 
the lungs, are successfully treated with butter boiled with an 
equal quantity of Attic honey till it assumes a reddish hue, a 
spoonful of the mixture being taken by the patient every 
morning : some persons, however, instead of honey prefer 
using larch-resin for the purpose. In cases where there are 
^ Earn mori tradunt." The reading here is very doubtful, 
*7 "Subulo." 
