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with vinegar. But it is the thick blood that issues from the 
liver of a he-goat when cut asunder, that is looked upon as the 
most efficacious ; or else the ashes of the burnt liver of a goat 
of either sex, taken in wine or applied to the nostrils with 
vinegar. The ashes, too, of a leather wine-bottle — but only 
when made of he-goat skin — are used veiy efficiently witti 
an equal quantity of resin, for the purpose of stanching blood, 
and knitting together the lips of the wound. A kid's rennet 
in vinegar, or the thighs of that animal, reduced to ashes, are 
said to be productive of a similar result. 
CHAP. 74. EEMEDIES EOE ULCERS AND CAECUsTOMATOUS SOEES. 
Ulcers upon the legs and thighs are cured by an application 
of bears' grease, mixed with red earth : and those of a serpigi- 
nous nature by using wild boar's gall, with resin and white 
lead ; the jaw-bone of a wild boar or swine, reduced to ashes ; 
swine's dung in a dry state ; or goats' dung, made luke-warm 
in vinegar. For other kinds of ulcers butter is used, as a 
detergent, and 'as tending to make new flesh; ashes of deer's 
antlers, or deer's marrow ; or else bull's gal], mixed with 
oil of Cyprus^ or oil of iris. "Wounds inflicted with edged 
weapons are rubbed with fresh swine's dung, or with dried 
swine's dung, powdered. "When ulcers are phagedsenic or 
fistulous, bull's gall is injected, with leek-juice or woman's 
milk ; or else bull's blood, dried and powdered, with the plant 
cotyledon.^ 
Carcinomatous sores are treated with hare's rennet, sprin- 
kled upon them with an equal proportion of capers in wine ; 
gangrenes, with bears' grease, applied with a feather ; and 
ulcers of a serpiginous nature with the ashes of an ass's hoofs, 
powdered upon them. The blood of the horse corrodes the 
flesh by virtue of certain septic powers which it possesses ; 
dried horse-dung, too, reduced to ashes, has a similar effect. 
Those kinds of ulcers which are commonly known as ^'phage- 
dsenic,'' are treated with the ashes of a cow's hide, mixed with 
honey. Calves' flesh, as also cow-dung mixed with honey, pre- 
vents recent wounds from swelling. The ashes of a leg of veal, 
applied with woman's milk, are a cure for sordid ulcers, and the 
malignant sore known as cacoethes bull-glue, melted, is 
2 See B. xii. c. 51. s See B. xxv. c. 101. 
* " Bad habit." A sort of cancer, or malignant ulcer. 
