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remedy is mutton suet, mixed with the ashes of a woman^s hair ; 
a good application, too, for chilblains is mutton suet, mixed 
with alum, or else ashes of a burnt dog's head or of burnt 
mouse-dung. Ulcers, free from discharge, are brought to cica- 
trize by using the above-named substances in combination with 
wax ; ashes, also, of burnt dormice, mixed with oil ; ashes of 
burnt wood-mice, mixed with honey ; ashes of burnt earth- 
worms, applied with old oil ; or else ashes of the snails without 
a shell that are so commonly found. All ulcers on the feet are 
cured by the application of ashes of snails, burnt alive ; and 
for excoriations of the feet, ashes of burnt poultry-dung are 
used, or ashes of burnt pigeons' dung, mixed with oil. "When 
the feet have been galled by the shoes, the ashes of an old shoe- 
sole are used, or the lights of a lamb or ram. For gatherings 
beneath^^ the nails, a horse's tooth, powdered, is a sovereign 
remedy. A light application of a green lizard's blood, will 
cure the feet of man or beast when galled beneath. 
Eor the removal of corns upon the feet, the urine of a mule 
of either sex is applied, mixed with the mud which it has 
formed upon the ground ; sheep's dung, also ; the liver of a 
green lizard, or the blood of that animal, applied in wool ; 
earth-worms, mixed with oil ; the head of a spotted lizard, 
pounded with an equal quantity of vitex and mixed with oil ; 
or pigeons' dung, boiled with vinegar. Eor the cure of all kinds 
of warts, dogs' urine is applied fresh, with the mud which it 
has formed upon the ground ; dogs' dung, also, reduced to ashes 
and mixed with wax; sheep's dung; the blood of mice, ap- 
plied fresh, or the hodj of a mouse, split asunder ; the gall of 
a hedgehog ; a lizard's head or blood, or the ashes of that 
animal, burnt entire ; the cast-off slough of a snake ; or else 
poultry dung, applied with oil and nitre. Cantharides, also, 
bruised with Taminian^^ grapes, act corrosively upon warts : 
but when warts have been thus removed, the remedies should 
be employed which we have pointed out for ulcerations on the 
skin. 
CHAP. 24. (10.)— EEMEDIES FOE EVILS WHICH AEE LIABLE TO 
AFFECT THE WHOLE BODY. 
"We will now turn our attention to those evils which are a 
1^ " Subluviem." The same, probably, as the disease of the fing^ers whicli 
he elsewhere calls " paronychia," and perhaps identical with whitlow. 
19 See B. xxiii. c. 13. 
