Chap. 58.] REMEDIES FOE BOWEL COMPLAINTS. 347 
dung, swine's dung, or hare's dung, reduced to ashes and 
mixed with mulled wine. Among the remedies, also, for the 
coeliac flux and dysentery, veal broth is reckoned, a remedy very 
commonly used. If the patient takes asses' milk for these 
complaints, it will be all the better if honey is added ; and no 
less efficacious for either complaint are the ashes of asses' dung 
taken in wine ; or else polea, the substance above^^-mentioned. 
In such cases, even when attended with a discharge of blood, 
we find a horse's rennet recommended, by some persons known 
as " hippace ashes of burnt horse-dung ; horses' teeth 
pounded ; and boiled cows' milk. In cases of dysentery, it is 
recommended to add a little honey ; and, for the cure of grip- 
ing pains, ashes of deer's horns, bull's gall mixed with cum- 
min, or the flesh of a gourd, should be applied to the navel. 
For both complaints new cheese made of cows' milk is used, 
as an injection; butter also, in the proportion of four semi- 
sextarii to two ounces of turpentine, or else employed with a de- 
coction of mallows or with oil of roses. Yeal-suet or beef-suet 
is also given, and the marrow of those animals is boiled with 
meal, a little wax, and some oil, so as to form a sort of pottage. 
This marrow, too, is kneaded up with bread for a similar pur- 
pose ; or else goats' milk is used, boiled down to one half. In 
cases, too, where there are gripings in the bowels, wine of the 
first running^'^ is administered. For the last-named pains, some 
persons are of opinion that it is a sufficient remedy to take 
a single dose of hare's rennet in mulled wine ; though others 
ngain, who are more distrustful, are in the habit of applying a 
liniment to the abdomen, made of goats' blood, barley -meal, 
and resin. 
For all defluxions of the bowels it is recommended to apply 
soft cheese, and for coeliac afiections and dysentery old cheese, 
powdered, one cyathus of cheese being taken in three cyathi of 
ordinary wine. Goats' blood is boiled down with the marrow 
of those animals for the cure of dysentery ; and the coeliac flux 
is effectually treated with the roasted liver of a she- goat, or, 
what is still better, the liver of a he-goat boiled in astringent 
wine, and administered in the drink, or else applied to the navel 
with oil, of myrtle. Some persons boil down the liver in three 
sextarii of water to half a sextarius, and then add rue to it. 
65 In Chap. 57 of this Book. 
"Protropura." See B. xiv. cc. 9. 11. 
