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There is a third kind, again, odious for its abominable smell, 
and tapering at the posterior extremities. Used in combina- 
tion with pisselaeon,^^ it is curative, they say, of ulcers of a 
desperate nature, and, if kept applied for one-and-twenty days, 
for scrofulous sores and inflamed tumours. The legs and wings 
being first removed, it is employed for the cure of bruises, contu- 
sions, cancerous sores, itch-scabs, and boils — remedies, all of 
them, quite disgusting even to hear of. A.nd yet, by Hercules ! 
Diodorus^* tells us that he has administered this remedy inter- 
nally, with resin and honey, for jaundice and hardness of 
breathing ; such unlimited power has the medical art to pre- 
scribe as a remedy whatever it thinks fit I 
Physicians who keep more within bounds, recommend the 
ashes of these insects to be kept for these various purposes in a 
box made of horn ; or else that they should be bruised and injected 
in a lavement for hardness of breathing and catarrhs. At all 
events, that, applied externally, they extract foreign substances 
adhering to the flesh, is a fact well known. 
Honey, too, in which the bees have died, is remarkably use- 
ful for affections of the ears. Pigeons' dung, applied by itself, 
or with barley-meal or oat-meal, reduces imposthumes of the 
parotid glands ; a result which is equally obtained by injecting 
into the ear an owlet's brains or liver, mixed with oil, or by 
applying the mixture to the parotid glands ; also, by applying 
millepedes with one-third part of resin ; by using crickets in the 
form of a liniment ; or by wearing crickets attached to the body 
as an amulet. The other kinds of maladies, and the several 
remedies for them, derived from the same animals or from others 
of the same class, we shall describe in the succeeding Eook. 
SuMMAEY. — Eemedies, narratives, and observations, six 
hundred and twenty- one. 
EoMAK AT7TH0ES QUOTED. — M. Yarro,^^ L. Piso,^® Flaccus 
Yerrius,^''^ Antias,^® Mgidius,^^ Cassius Hemina,^^ Cicero,^^ 
Plautus,^^ Celsus,^^ Sextius Niger^* who wrote in Greek, Ceeci- 
23 See B. xxiv. c. 11. 24 gee the end of this Book. 
25 See end of B. ii. ^6 g^e end of B. ii, ^7 g^e end of B. iii, i 
2« See end of B. ii. 29 gee end of B. vi. gee end of B. xii. 
See end of B. vii. ^3 gge end of B.xiv. See end of B. vii. 
2^ See end of B. xii. 
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