Chap. 36.] REMEDIES EOE AEEECTIOKS OP THE SIKEWS. 457 
CHAP. 33. REMEDIES FOK CAEBDNCLES. 
Carbuncles are removed by. an application of pigeons' dung, 
either alone or in combination with linseed and oxymel ; or 
of bees that have died in the honey. A sprinkling of polenta 
upon the sores is also used. Por carbuncles and other sores of 
the generative organs, wool- grease is used as a remedy, with 
refuse of lead ; and for incipient carbuncles, sheep's dung is 
employed. Tumours and all other affections that stand in need 
of emollients are treated most effectually with goose-grease ; 
that of cranes, too, is equally efficacious. 
CHAP. 34. REMEDIES FOR BOILS. 
Eor boils the following remedies are prescribed ; a spider, 
applied before mentioning the insect by name, care being 
taken to remove it at the end of two days ; a shrew-mouse, 
suspended by the neck till it is dead, care being taken not 
to let it touch the earth when dead, and to pass it three 
times around the boil, both operator and patient spitting on the 
floor each time ; poultry-dung, that of a red colour in particular, 
applied fresh with vinegar ; the crop of a stork, boiled in wine ; 
flies, an uneven number of them, rubbed upon the patient with 
the ring^^ finger ; the filth from sheep's ears j stale mutton 
suet, with ashes of women's hair ; ram suet also, with ashes of 
burnt pumice and an equal quantity of salt. 
CHAP. 35. REMEDIES FOR BURNS. 
For burns, the ashes of a dog's head are used ; ashes of 
burnt dormice, with oil ; sheep's dung, with wax ; ashes also 
of burnt snails, an application so effectual, as not to leave a 
scar even. Viper's fat, too, is used, and ashes of burnt pigeons' 
dung, applied with oil. 
CHAP. 36. REMEDIES FOR AFFECTIONS OF THE SINEWS. 
For nodosities in the sinews, the ashes of a viper's head are 
applied, with oil of Cyprus or else earth-worms, with honey. 
Pains in the sinews should be treated with an application of 
grease ; the body of a dead amphisbaena, worn as an amulet ; 
vulture's grease, dried with the crop of the bird and beaten up 
with stale hog's lard ; or else ashes of the head of a horned 
43 ''Digitus medicus'* — "The physician's finger," properly. Why 
the fourth finger, or that next to the Uttle finger, was thus called, it seems 
impossible to say. See 13, xii. c. 51. 
