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hemedtes fou mela^tcholt. 
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and recurrent fevers are cured, if we are to believe what the 
magicians tell us, by wearing the right eye of a wolf, salted, 
and attached as an amulet. There is one kind of fever gene- 
rally known as amphemerine it is to be cured, they say, 
by the patient taking three drops of blood from an ass's ear, and 
swallowing them in two semi-sextarii of water. Eor quartan 
fever, the magicians recommend cats' dung to be attached to 
the body, with the toe of a horned owl, and, that the fever 
may not be recurrent, not to be removed until the seventh 
paroxysm is past. Who,^® pray, could have ever made such a 
discovery as this? And what, too, can be the meaning of this 
combination ? Why, of all things in the world, was the toe 
of a horned owl made choice of ? 
Other adepts in this art, who are more moderate in their 
suggestions, recommend for quartan fever, the salted liver of a 
cat that has been killed while the moon was on the wane, to be 
taken in wine just before the paroxysms come on. The ma- 
gicians recommend, too, that the toes of the patient should be 
rubbed with the ashes of burnt cow-dung, diluted with a boy's 
urine, and that a hare's heart should be attached to the hands; 
they prescribe, also, hare's rennet, to be taken in drink just 
before the paroxj^'sms come on. E^ew goats' milk cheese is 
also given with hone}', the whey being carefully extracted 
first. 
CHAP. 67. (17.) EEMEDIES FOR MELANCHOLY, LETHARGY, AKD 
PHTHISIS. 
Eor patients affected with melancholy,^^ calves' dung, boiled 
in wine, is a very useful remedy. Persons are aroused from 
lethargy by applying to the nostrils the callosities from an 
ass's legs steeped in vinegar, or the fumes of burnt goats' 
horns or hair, or by the application of a wild boar's liver : a 
remedy which is also used for confirmed^^ drowsiness. 
The cure of phthisis is effected by taking a wolf's liver 
boiled in thin wine ; the bacon of a sow that has been fed 
upon herbs ; or the flesh of a she- ass, eaten with the broth : 
this last mode in particular, being the one that is employed by 
^'^ Or ^'quotidian," daily fever. 
A rather singular episode in bis narrative. It looks like a gloss. 
^® Under this name, as Ajasson remarks, the affections now caHed hys- 
teria" are included. Veternum." 
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