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discharges of blood, cow's blood, tbey say, is good, taken in 
small quantities with vinegar ; but as to bull's blood, it would 
be a rash thing to believe in any such recommendation. For 
inveterate spitting of blood, bull-glue is taken, in doses of three 
oboli, in warm water. 
CHAP. 54. (13.) EEMEDIES POR APFECTIONS OP THE STOMACH. 
Ulcerations of the stomach are effectually treated with 
asses' milk^^ or cows' milk. For gnawing pains in that region, 
beef is stewed, with vinegar and wine. Fluxes are healed by 
taking the ashes of burnt deer's horns ; and discharges of blood 
by drinking the blood of a kid just killed, made hot, in doses 
of three cyathi, with equal proportions of vinegar and tart 
wine ; or else by taking kid's rennet, with twice the quantity 
of vinegar. 
CHAP. 55. REMEDIES POK LIVER COMPLAINTS AND FOR ASTHMA. 
Liver complaints are cured by taking a wolf's liver dried, in 
honied wine ; or by using the dried liver of an ass, with twdce 
the quantity of rock-parsley and three nuts, the whole beaten 
up with honey and taken with the food. The blood, too, of a 
he- goat is prepared and taken with the food. For persons suf- 
fering from asthma, the most efficient remedy of all is the blood 
of wild horses^^ taken in drink ; and next to that, asses' milk 
boiled with bulbs, the whey being the part used, with the 
addition of nasturtium steeped in water and tempered with 
honey, in the proportion of one cyathus of nasturtium to three 
semi-sextarii of whey. The liver or lights of a fox, taken in 
red wine, or bear's gall in water, facilitate the respiration. 
CHAP. 56. REMEDIES POR PAINS IN THE LOINS. 
For pains in the loins and all other affections which require 
emollients, frictions with bears' grease should be used ; or else 
ashes of stale boars' dung or swine's dung should be mixed 
with wine and given to the patients. The magicians, too, 
have added to this branch of medicine their own fanciful 
devices. In the first place of all, madness in he-goats, they 
say, maybe effectually calmed by stroking the beard ; and if 
the beard is cut off, the goat will never stray to another flock. 
58 Asses' milk is still recommended for pulmonary phthisis. 
^ See B. viii. c. 16. 
