Chap. 32.] REMEDIES TOE THE BITE OF THE MAD DOG. 405 
leprosy and lichens. It is said, too, that they act as an em- 
menagogue and diuretic, for which last reason Hippocrates 
used to prescribe them for dropsy, Cato of Utica was re- 
proached with selling poison, because, when disposing of a 
royal property by auction,^^ he sold a quantity of cantharides, 
at the price of sixty thousand sesterces. (5.) We may here 
remark, too, that it was on the same occasion that some ostrich 
fat was sold, at the price of thirty thousand sesterces, a sub- 
stance which is preferable to goose-grease in every respect, 
CHAP. 31. — YARIOUS COUNTEE- POISONS. 
We have already spoken of various kinds of poisonous 
honey: the antidote employed for it is honey in which the 
bees have been stifled. This honey, too, taken in wine, is a 
remedy for indispositions caused by eating fish. 
CHAP. 32. — EEMEDIES FOE THE BITE OF THE MAD DOG. 
When a person has been bitten by a mad dog, he may be 
preserved from hydrophobia by applying the ashes of a dog's 
head to the wound. All ashes of this description, we may 
here remark once for all, are prepared in the same method ; 
the substance being placed in a new earthen vessel well covered 
with potter's clay, and put into a furnace. These ashes, too, 
are very good, taken in drink, and hence some recommend the 
head itself to be eaten in such cases. Others, again, attach to the 
body of the patient a maggot, taken from the carcase of a dead 
dog ; or else place the menstruous blood of a bitch, in a linen 
cloth, beneath his cup, or insert in the wound ashes of hairs 
from the tail of the dog that inflicted the bite. Dogs will fly 
from any one who has a dog's heart about him, and thej will 
never bark at a person who carries a dog's tongue in his shoe, 
beneath the great toe, or the tail of a weasel which has been 
set at liberty after being deprived of it. There is beneath the 
tongue of a mad dog a certain slimy spittle, which, taken in 
drink, is a preventive of hydrophobia : but much the most 
useful plan is, to take the liver of the dog that has inflicted 
the injury, and eat it raw, if possible ; should that not be the 
case, it must be cooked in some way or other, or else a broth 
must be taken, prepared from the flesh. 
S7 At the sale, under his supervision, of the property of Ptolemy, king 
of Cyprus. In B. xxi. c. 34. 
