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pliny's natural history. [Book XXVIlI. 
The milt of a he or she-goat is sometimes roasted for this pur- 
pose, or the suet of a he-goat is incorporated in bread baked 
upon the ashes; the fat, too, of a she-goat, taken from the kidneys 
more particularly, is used. This last, however, must be taken 
by itself and swallowed immediately, being generally recom- 
mended to be taken in water moderately cool. Some persons, 
too, boil goats' suet in water, with a mixture of polenta, cum- 
min, anise, and vinegar ; and for the cure of cceliac affections, 
they rub the abdomen with a decoction of goats' dung and 
honey. 
For both the coeliac flux and dysentery, kid*s rennet is • 
employed, taken in myrtle wine in pieces the size of a bean, 
or else kid's blood, prepared in the form of a dish known by 
the name of sanguiculus."^' Eor dysentery an injection is 
employed, made of bull glue dissolved in warm water, flatu- 
lency is dispelled by a decoction of calf's dung in wine. For 
intestinal affections deer's rennet is highly recommended, 
boiled with beef and lentils, and taken with the food ; hare's 
fur, also reduced to ashes and boiled with honey ; or boiled 
goat's milk, taken with a small quantity of mallows and some 
salt ; if rennet is added, the remedy will be all the more effec- 
tual. Goat suet, taken in any kind of broth, is possessed of 
similar virtues, care being taken to swallow cold water imme- 
diately after. The ashes of a kid's thighs are said to be mar- 
vellously efficacious for intestinal hernia ; as also hare's dung, 
boiled with honey, and taken daily in pieces the size of a bean ; 
indeed, these remedies are said to have proved effectual in cases 
where a cure has been quite despaired of. The broth too, 
made from a goat's head, boiled with the hair on, is highly 
recommended. 
CHAP. 59. REMEDIES FOR TENESMUS, TAPEWORM, AND 
AFFECTIONS OF THE COLON. 
The disease called tenesmus,'* or in other words, a frequent 
and ineffectual desire to go to stool, is removed by drinking 
asses' milk or cows' milk. The various kinds of tapeworm^^ are 
expelled by taking the ashes of deer's horns in drink. The bones 
6''' A kind of black pudding. Dupinet, the old French translator, says 
that in his time the people of the Alpine regions still called this dish sanchet, 
^ He uses ^' taenia" probably, us a general name for intestinal worms. 
