Chap. 22.] EEMEBIES TOR THE GENEEATTVE OEOAl^-S. 445 
Chicken-broth relaxes the bowels and mollifies acridities ; 
swallows' dung, too, with honey, employed as a suppositor37-, 
acts as a purgative. 
CHAP. 22. REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE FU:^DAMENT AJ^D OP 
THE GEJiTEEATiyE OEGAJ^S. 
The most efficacious remedies for diseases of the rectum are 
wool-grease — to which some add pompholix® and oil of roses — 
a dog's head reduced to ashes ; or a serpent's slough, with 
vinegar. In cases where there are chaps and fissures of those 
parts, the ashes of the white portion of dogs' dung are used, 
mixed with oil of roses ; a prescription due, they say, to ^scu- 
lapius,^ and remarkably efficacious also for the removal of 
warts. Ashes of burnt mouse- dung, swan's fat, and cow 
suet, are also used. Procidence of the rectum is reduced by an 
application of the juices discharged by snails when punctured. 
For the cure of excoriation of those parts, ashes of burnt wood- 
mice are used, with honey ; the gall of a hedge-hog, with a 
bat's brains and bitches' milk ; goose-grease, with the brains of 
the bird, alum, and wool-grease ; or else pigeons' dung, mixed 
with honey. A spider, the head and legs being first removed, 
is remarkably good as a friction for condylomata. To prevent 
the acridity of the humours from fretting the flesh, goose- 
grease is applied, with Punic wax, white lead, and oil of 
roses ; swan's grease also, which is said to be a cure for piles. 
A very good thing, they say, for sciatica, is, to pound raw 
snails in Aminean'^ v/ine, and to take them with pepper ; to 
eat a green lizard, the feet, head, and intestines being first 
removed ; or to eat a spotted lizard, with the addition of three 
oboli of black poppy. Euptures and convulsions are treated 
with sheep's gall, diluted with woman's milk. The gravy which 
escapes from a ram's lights roasted, is used for the cure of 
itching pimples and warts upon the generative organs : for 
other afiections of those parts, the ashes of a ram's wool, un- 
washed even, are used, applied with water; the suet of a 
sheep's caul, and of the kidneys more particularly, mixed with 
ashes of pumice-stone and salt ; greasy wool, applied with cold 
water ; sheep's flesh, burnt to ashes, and applied with water ; 
s See B. xxxiv. c. 33. ^ It can hardly be said to add to his fame. 
10 See B. xiv. c. 4. 
