Pliny's katueal history. [Book XXVIII. 
There are some persons who recommend the patient to eat 
the heart of a black he-ass in the open air with bread, upon 
the first or second day of the moon : others, again, prescribe 
the flesh of that animal, and others the blood, diluted with 
vinegar, and taken for forty days together. Some mix horse- 
stale for this purpose, with smithy water fresh from the forge, 
employing the same mixture for the cure of delirium. Epilepsy 
is also treated with mares^ milk, or the excrescences from a 
horse's legs, taken in honey and vinegar. The magicians 
highly recommend goats' flesh, grilled upon a funeral pile ; as 
also the suet of that animal, boiled with an equal quantity of 
bull's gall, and kept in the gall-bladder; care being taken not 
to let it touch the ground, and the patient swallowing it in 
water, standing aloft.^^ The smell arising from a goat's horns 
or deer's antlers, burnt, efficiently detects the presence of 
epilepsy. 
In cases where persons are suddenly paralyzed, the urine of 
an ass's foal, applied to the body with nard, is very useful, it is 
said. 
CHAP. 64. EEMEBIES FOR JAUNDICE. 
For the cure of jaundice, the ashes of a stag's antlers are 
employed ; or the blood of an ass's foal, taken in wine. The 
first dung,^^ too, that has been voided by the foal after its 
birth, taken in wine, in pieces the size of a bean, will effect a 
cure by the end of three days. The dung of a new-born colt 
is possessed of a similar efficacy. 
CHAP. 65. EEMEDIES FOR BROKEN BONES. 
For broken bones, a sovereign remedy is the ashes of the 
jaw-bone of a wild boar or swine : boiled bacon, too, tied round 
the broken bone, unites it with marvellous rapidity. For 
fractures of the ribs, goats' dung, applied in old wine, is extolled 
as the grand remedy, being possessed in a high degree of 
aperient, extractive, and healing properties. 
CHAP. 66. — REMEDIES FOR FEVERS. 
Deer's flesh, as already stated, is a febrifuge. Periodical 
^'Potum vero ex aqua sublime.*' The true reading and the meaning 
are equally doubtful. Spoken of as "polea'' in c. 57. 
In B. Till. c. 50. Because the animal itself was supposed to be free 
from fever. 
