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particularly useful, applied in combination with wax ; and the 
remedy is all the more efficacious, if a sheep's jaw-bones are 
burnt with the other ingredients, together with a deer's antler, 
and some wax dissolved in oil of roses. For broken bones, a 
dog's brains are used, spread upon a linen cloth, with wool 
laid upon the surface and moistened every now and then. The 
fractured bone will mostly unite in the course of fourteen 
days ; and a cure equally expeditious may be effected by using 
the ashes of burnt field-mice, with honey, or of burnt earth- 
worms ; a substance which is extremely useful for the ex- 
traction of splintered bones. 
CHAP. 41. —APPLICATIONS FOE CICATRIZATIONS, AND EOR THE 
CUKE OE MOEPHEW. 
Cicatrizations are restored to their original colour by apply- 
ing sheep's lights, those of a ram in particular ; mutton-suet, 
mixed with nitre ,* the ashes of a green lizard ; a snake's slough, 
boiled in wine ; or else pigeons' dung, mixed with honey ; 
a preparation which, in combination with wine, is good for 
the removal of white morphew. Eor the cure, also, of mor- 
phew, can thar ides are used, with two- thirds of rue- leaves; 
a preparation which the patient must keep applied, in the sun, 
till the skin itches and rises in blisters ; after which it must 
be fomented and well rubbed with oil, and the application re- 
peated. This must be done for several days in succession, due 
precautions being taken that the ulcerations do not penetrate 
too deep. 
For the cure, too, of morphew, a liniment is recommended, 
made of flies and root of agrimony ; the white part also of 
poultry dung, kept in a horn box with stale oil ; a bat's blood ; 
or else the gall of a hedge-hog applied with water. Itch- scab 
is cured by using the brains of a horned owl, incorporated with 
saltpetre; but dog's blood is the best thing to keep it in 
check. The small, broad, snail that is found, crushed and ap- 
plied topically, is an effectual cure for itching sensations. 
CHAP. 42. — METHODS OF EXTRACTING FOEEIGN SUBSTANCES FROU 
I THE BODY. 
Arrows, pointed weapons, and other foreign substances that 
require to be extracted from the body, are removed by the 
