Chap. 77.] 
REMEDIES rOB FEMALE DISEASES. 
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Ashes, too, of deer's horns are taken in drink for the same pur- 
pose, and for derangements of the uterus they are applied topi- 
cally, as also bull's gall, used as a pessary with opium, in the 
proportion of two oboli. It is a good plan, too, to use fumigations 
for the uterus, made with deer's hair, burnt. Hinds, they say, 
when they find themselves pregnant, are in the habit of swal- 
lowing a small stone. This stone, when found in their excre- 
ments, or in the uterus — for it is to be found there as well — 
attached to the body as an amulet, is a preventive of abortion. 
There are also certain small stones, found in the heart and uterus 
of these animals, which are very useful for women during preg- 
nancy and in travail. As to the kind of pumice-stone which 
is similarly found in the uterus of the cow, we have already"* 
mentioned it when treating of the formation of that animal. 
A wolfs fat, applied externally, acts emolliently upon the 
uterus, and the liver of a wolf is very soothing for pains in 
that organ. It is found advantageous for women, when near 
delivery, to eat wolf's flesh, or, if they are in travail, to have 
a person near them who has eaten it ; so much so, indeed, that 
it will act as a countercharm even to any noxious spells which 
may have been laid upon them. In case, however, a person 
who has eaten wolf's flesh should happen to enter the room 
at the moment of parturition, dangerous effects will be sure to 
follow. The hare, too, is remarkably useful for the complaints 
of females : the lights of that animal, dried and taken in drink, 
are beneficial to the uterus; the liver, taken in water with Samian 
earth, acts as an emmenagogue ; and the rennet brings away 
the after- birth, due cave being taken by the patient not to bathe 
the day before. Applied in wool as a pessary, with saflron and 
leek-juice, this last acts as an expellent upon the dead foetus. It 
is a general opinion that the uterus of a hare, taken with the 
food, promotes the conception of male oflspring, and that a 
similar effect is produced by using the testes and rennet of that 
animal. It is thought, too, that a leveret, taken from the uterus 
of its dam, is a restorative of fruitfulness to women who are 
otherwise past child-bearing. Eut it is the blood of a hare's 
foetus that the magicians recommend males to drink : while for 
young girls they prescribe nine pellets of hare's dung, to ensure 
a durable firmness to the breasts. Eor a similar purpose, also, 
^ In B. xi. c, 79. 
