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habit of addiijg litharge and frankincense. Eutter, too, is very 
good, employed with goose-grease and oil of roses. The pro- 
portions in which they are mixed will be regulated by the 
circumstances of the case, care being taken to see that they are 
of a consistency which admits of their being easily applied. 
Bull's gall upon lint is a remarkably useful remedy, and has 
the effect of making chaps of the fundament cicatrize with 
great rapidity. Swellings of those parts are treated with veal 
suet — that from the loins in particular — mixed with rue. For 
other affections, goats' blood is used, with polenta. Goats' 
gall, too, is employed by itself, for the cure of condylomata, and 
sometimes, wolf's gall, mixed with wine. 
Bears' blood is curative of inflamed tumours and apost- 
emes upon these parts in general ; as also bulls' blood, dried 
and powdered. The best remedy, however, is considered to 
be the stone which the wild ass'''^ voids with his urine, it is 
said, at the moment he is killed. This stone, which is in a 
somewhat liquefied state at first, becomes solid when it reaches 
the ground : attached to the thigh, it disperses all collections 
of humours and all kinds of suppurations : it is but rarely 
found, however, and it is not every wild ass that produces it, 
but as a remedy it is held in high esteem. Asses' urine too, 
used in combination with gith, is highly recommended ; the 
ashes of a horse's hoof, applied with oil and water; a horse's 
blood, that of a stone-horse in particular ; the blood, also, of an 
ox or cow, or the gall of those animals. Their flesh too, applied 
warm, is productive of similar results ; the hoofs reduced to 
ashes, and taken in water or honey ; the urine of a she-goat ; 
the flesh of a he-goat, boiled in water ; the dung of these 
animals, boiled with honey ; or else a boar's gall, or swine's 
urine, applied in wool. 
Biding on horseback, we well know, galls and chafes the 
inside of the thighs : the best remedy for accidents of this 
nature is to rub the parts with the foam which collects at a 
horse's mouth. Where there are swellings in the groin, arising"^' 
from ulcers, a cure is effected by inserting in the sores three 
horse-hairs, tied with as many knots. 
78 "Onager.'* 
Arising, by sympathy, from sores in other piu-ts of the body. 
