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applied to recent wounds inflicted with edged weapons, the 
application being removed before the end of three days. Dried 
goats^ milk cheese, applied with vinegar and honey, acts as a 
detergent upon ulcers ; and goat suet, used in combination 
with wax, arrests the spread of serpiginous sores : if employed 
with pitch and sulphur, it will effect a thorough cure. The 
ashes of a kid's leg, applied with woman's milk, have a similar 
effect upon malignant ulcers ; for the cure, too, of carbuncles, a 
sow's brains are roasted and applied. 
CHAP. 75. EEMEDIES FOR THE ITCH. 
The itch in man is cured very effectually by using the 
marrow of an ass, or the urine of that animal, applied with 
the mud it has formed upon the ground. Eutter, too, is very 
good ; as also in the case of beasts of burden, if applied with 
warmed resin : bull glue is also used, melted in vinegar, and 
incorporated with lime ; or goat's gall, mixed with calcined 
alum. The eruption called boa,"^ is treated with cow-dung, 
a fact to which it is indebted for its name. TJie itch in dogs 
is cured by an application of fresh cows' blood, which, when 
quite dry, is renewed a second time, and is rubbed off the next 
day with strong lie- ashes. 
CHAP. 76. METHODS OF EXTRACTING FOREIGlSr SUBSTAJ^CES WHICH 
ADHERE TO THE BODY, AND OF RESTORING SCARS TO THEIR 
NATURAL COLOUR. 
Thorns and similar foreign substances are extracted from the 
body by using cats' dung, or that of she-goats, with wine ; the 
rennet also of any kind of animal, that of the hare more parti- 
cularly, with powdered frankincense and oil, or an equal quan- 
tity of mistletoe, or else with bee-glue.^ 
Ass suet restores scars of a swarthy hue to their natural 
colour ; and they are equally effaced by using calf's gall made 
warm. Medical men add myrrh, honey, and saffron, and keep 
the mixture in a copper box ; some, too, incorporate with it 
flower of copper. 
CHAP. 77. (19.) REMEDIES FOR FEMALE DISEASES. 
Menstruation is promoted by using bull's gall, in unwashed 
wool, as a pessary : Olympias of Thebes adds hyssop and nitre. 
5 See B. xxiv. c. 35. « " Propolis." See B. xi. c. 6. 
