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flint's ITATUEAL HISTOUY. [Book XXVIII. 
The best glue is that prepared frora tlie ears and genitals of 
the bull, and there is no better cure in existence for burns. 
There is nothing, however, that is more extensively adulterated^ 
which is done by boiling up all kinds of old skins, and shoes 
even, for the purpose. The Rhodian glue is the purest of all, 
and it is this that painters and physicians mostly use. The 
whiter it is, the more highly glue is esteemed : that, on the 
other hand, which is black and brittle like wood, is looked upon 
as good for nothing. 
CHAP. 72. EEMEDIES POE AFFECTIONS OF THE SINEWS AND FOR 
CONTUSIONS. 
For pains in the sinews, goats' dung, boiled in vinegar with 
honey, is considered one of the most useful remedies, and this 
even where the sinew^^ is threatened with putrefaction. Strains 
and contusions are healed with wild boars' dung, that has been 
gathered in spring and dried. A similar method is employed 
where persons have been dragged by a chariot or lacerated by 
the wheels, or have received contusions in any other way, the 
application being quite as effectual, should the dung happen 
to be fresh. Some think it a better plan, however, to boil it 
in vinegar ; and if only powdered and taken in vinegar, they 
vouch for its good effects where persons are ruptured, wounded 
internally, or suffering from the effects of a fall. 
Others again, who are of a more scrupulous tendency, take 
the ashes of it in water ; and the Emperor [N'ero, it is said, was 
in the habit of refreshing himself with this drink, when he at- 
tempted to gain the public applause at the three-horse chariot 
races.^ Swine's dung, it is generally thought, is the next 
best to that of the goat. 
CHAP. 73. (18.) EEMEDIES FOR H^MOEEH AGE. 
Haemorrhage is arrested by applying deer's rennet* with 
vinegar, hare's rennet, hare's fur reduced to ashes, or ashes of 
burnt asses' dung. The dung, however, of male animals is the 
most efficacious for this purpose, being mixed with vinegar, and 
applied with wool, in ail cases of haemorrhage. In the same way, 
too, the ashes of a horse's head or thigh, or of burnt calves' dung, 
are used with vinegar ; the ashes also of a goat's horns or dung, 
Where the sinew has been wounded and exposed, either vinegar or 
honey, Ajasson remarks, would be u highly dangerous apphcation. 
®^ " Eeverentiores." ^ " Trigario." 
