452 Pliny's katueal histoet. [Book XXX. 
a preservative against the malady, A kite's liver, too, eatea 
by the patient, is highly vaunted ; the slough also of a ser- 
pent; a vulture's liver, beaten up with the blood of the bird, 
and taken thrice seven days in drink ; or the heart of a young 
vulture, worn attached to the body. 
And not only this, but the vulture itself Is recommended as 
a food for the patient, and that, too, when it has been glutted 
with human flesh. Some recommend the breast of this bird 
to be taken in drink from a cup made of cerrus^^ wood, or the 
testes of a dunghill cock to be taken in milk and water ; the 
patient abstaining from wine the five preceding days, and the 
testes being dried for the purpose. There have been authori- 
ties found to recommend one-and-twenty red flies — and those 
found dead, too ! — taken in drink, the number being reduced 
where the patient is of a feeble habit. 
CHAP. 28. (11.) KEMEDIES FOR JAUNDICE. 
Jaundice is combated by administering ear-wax to the patient, 
or else the filth that adheres to the udders of sheep, in doses 
of one denarius, with a modicum of myrrh, in two cyathi of 
wine; the ashes, also, of a dog's head, mixed with honied 
^ine ; a millepede, in one semi-sextarius of wine ; earth- 
worms, in hydromel with myrrh ; wine in which a hen's 
feet have been washed, after being first cleansed with water — 
the hen must be one with yellow'^^ feet — the brains of a partridge 
or of an eagle, in three cyathi of wine ; the ashes of a ring- 
dove's feathers or intestines, in honied wine, in doses of three 
spoonfuls ; or ashes of sparrows burnt upon twigs, in doses of 
two spoonfuls, in hydromel. 
There is a bird, known as the icterus,"^^ from its peculiar 
colour : if the patient looks at it, he will be cured of jaun- 
dice, they say, and the bird will die. In my opinion this 
is the same bird that is known in Latin by the name of 
galgulus."^^ 
CHAP. 29. KEMEBTES FOE PHEENITIS. 
In cases of phrenitis a sheep's lights, attached warm round 
the patient's head, would appear to be advantageous. Eut as 
to giving a man suflering from delirium a mouse's brains in 
2s See B. xvi. e. 6. 29 i,{^q our game poultry. 
This word being also the Greek name for the jaundice. 
3i See B. X. c. 50. The 'WitwaU. 
