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to the patient's shirt,^^ on either side ; after which, the patient 
must put it on and let the pieces fall at his feet, and must 
then pick them up, and dry them in the shade. While this 
last is doing, the diseased liver of the patient will gradually 
contract, they saj^, and he will eventually be cured. The 
lights, too, of a fox are very useful for this purpose, dried on 
hot ashes and taken in water ; the same, too, with a kid's 
milt, applied to the part affected. 
CHAP. 58. (14.) REMEDIES EOR BOWEL COMPLAINTS. 
To arrest looseness of the bowels, deer's blood is used ; the • 
ashes also of deer's horns ; the liver of a wild boar, taken fresh 
and without salt, in wine ; a swine's liver roasted, or that of a 
he-goat, boiled in five semisextarii of wine ; a hare's rennet 
boiled, in quantities the size of a chick-pea, in wine, or, if 
there are symptoms of fever, in water. To this last some 
persons add nut-galls, while others, again, content themselves 
with hare's blood boiled by itself in milk. Ashes, too, of 
burnt horse-dung are taken in water for this purpose ; or else 
ashes of the part of an old bull's horn which lies nearest the 
root, sprinkled in water ; the blood, too, of a he-goat boiled 
upon charcoal ; or a decoction made from a goat's hide boiled 
with the hair on. 
For relaxing the bowels a horse's rennet ie.used, or else the 
blood, marrow, or liver of a she-goat. A similar effect is pro- 
duced by applying a wolf's gall to the navel, with elaterium 
by taking mares' milk, goats* milk with salt and honey, or a 
she-goat's gall with juice of cyclaminos,^ and a little alum — in 
which last case some prefer adding nitre and water to the 
mixture. Bull's gall, too, is used for a similar purpose, beaten 
up with wormwood and applied in the form of a suppository ; or 
butter is taken, in considerable doses. 
Coeliac affections and dysentery are cured by taking cow's 
liver; ashes of deer's horns, a pinch in three fingers swallowed 
in water; hare's rennet, kneaded up in bread, or, if there is 
any discharge of blood, taken with polenta or else boar's 
«i " Tunica.'* «2 gge B. xx. c. 2. 
See B. XXV. c. 67. Mares' milk is not a purgative ; and goats' milk, 
as Ajasson remarks, is somewhat astringent. Juice of Cyclamen, on tlje 
other hand, or sow-bread, is highly purgative. 
*^ See B. xviii. c. 14. 
