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a horse's hoof, taken in wine or water, are considered highly 
useful for this purpose ; and the same with the dung of a she- 
goat — if a wild goat, all the better — taken in honied wine : 
goats' hair, too, is used, reduced to ashes. 
For carbuncles upon the generative organs, the brains and 
blood of a wild boar or swine are highly recommended : and 
for serpiginous affections of those parts, the liver of those 
animals is used, burnt upon juniper wood more particularly, 
and mixed with papyrus and arsenic the ashes, also, of their 
dung; ox-gall, kneaded to the consistency of honey, with 
Egyptian alum and myrrh, beet-root boiled in wine being laid 
upon it; or else beef. Eunning ulcers of those parts are 
treated with veal- suet and marrow, boiled in wine, or with the 
gall of a she- goat, mixed with honey and the extracted juice 
of the bramble.'^ In cases where these ulcers are serpiginous, 
it is recommended to use goats' dung with honey or vinegar, 
or else butter by itself. Swellings of the testes are reduced by 
using veal-suet with nitre, or the dung of the animal boiled in 
vinegar. The bladder of a wild boar, eaten roasted, acts as a 
check upon incontinence of urine ; a similar effect being pro- 
duced by the ashes of the feet of a wild boar or swine sprinkled 
in the drink ; ♦the ashes of a sow's bladder taken in drink ; the 
bladder or lights of a kid ; a hare's brains taken in wine ; the 
testes of a male hare grilled ; the rennet of that animal taken 
with goose-grease and polenta ;" or the kidneys of an ass, beaten 
up and taken in undiluted wine. 
The magicians tell us, that after taking the ashes of a boar's 
genitals in sweet wine, the patient must make water in a dog 
kennel, and repeat the following formula — This I do that I 
may not wet my bed as a dog does." On the other hand, a 
swine's bladder, attached to the groin, facilitates the discharge 
of the urine, provided it has not already touched the ground. 
CHAP. 61.— -REMEDIES EOK DISEASES OP THE GENERATIVE OKGANS 
Ai^D OF THE FUNDAMENT. 
Eor diseases of the fundament, a sovereign remedy is bear's 
gall, mixed with the grease ; to which some persons ai'e in the 
Ajasson remarks that arsenic should be used with the greatest care itt 
Buch a case. 
■'^ Rubi." Ho probably means the bramble-berry. 
See B. xviii. c. 14. 
