conception of a femal and the first being drunk by both causeth a male and an hermophrodite if by the woman only Plin. The huckle-bone used prevents the paine of the belly so Sext. and Marcel Some use it against the stone Trag. Being drunk out of the water of pennyroyal it is an ocytocion Anon. With misseltoe coral pearls the seeds of peony and the stones of Crabs an it helps the falling sicknesse Plin. The feet applied to the vices of the joynts help the same Plin. The dung helps burnings the magicians drink or prescribe 9. gr of the dung to cause a constant stretching of the dugs Rhas Dissolved with vineger and applied it cureth the ring-worme Plin. The ashes drunk in wine in the evening help the cough in the night Gal. Stamped and taken in hot wine it helpeth the vices of the columella and difficulty of breathing Plin. The ashes strewed on warme wine help the coeliack and dysentery So the pills thereof made with wine Plin. Boiled with honey and taken daily in the quantity of a beane it helps the rupture of the intestines Aetius maketh a pessary thereof to cause conception Rhas Worne by a women it hindereth conception Albert. And a little thereof applied to the womb dryeth up the menstruous bloud and mightily desiccats the matrix Schrod The D. of the powder of a Hare is from scrup 1. to drach 1. their eyes when taken in March drive forth the birth and secundine being dryed with pepper and the apple being applied to the crown of the head The gall is an ophthalmick and oralgick Jonst The gall with sugar helps the wefts of the eyes Their description is needlesse They generate aversly at any time of the yeare and bring forth in copises two or more at a time They are enemies to the Eagle Crow Weasel Foxe and Doggs They live six or seven years Their noise is shrill They sleep with their eyes open and heare well they disturb their course and leap about before their sitting They use certaine places they are seldome fat when wild by reason of their feare In the winter they lie in sunny places and towards the north wind in summer They use to avoid bushes that their furre may not stick thereon squat on plowed lands when hunted being of the same colour and make rings to avoide the sagacity of the hunter They are presently made tame and suddainly returne when loose to their former wildnesse The female hath a longer head and eares as also a fatter body than the male They differ in colour fatnesse magnitude smell and place Tops When they are awake they shut their eyes They seldome looke forewards going by jumps They rest in the day time and feed in the night When they are hot they feed upon hares lettuce They never drink but content themselves with the dew and so often become rotten They copulate backwards and often though great They bring forth their young blind like other cloven footed Beasts They keep them not all together that some may be preserved When hunted they are to be kept from the upper ground they running faster up the hill than downwards Hart. Cervus P. In Africa Apulia Batavia and Brittain M. Of grasse c. and hay N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Aial Hart. Platin. T. The flesh is almost like beefe for it is slowly concocted nourisheth little and increaseth melancholy it is most pleasant to eat in the summer especially in August being then fattest Cels Being concocted it nourisheth much The best are the Faunes and are best when gelded being lesse hot and dry H. Sym. Seth. Being much eaten it causeth a shaking in the body Avic And quartan agues Rhas It is hot Avic it provoketh urine Vicent Bel. The liver is very bad and ill tempered The young horns help against aconite The way of dressing it may be seen in Apicius and Platina Plin. The bloud stoppeth the belly Diosc and helpeth the dysentery and coeliack as also that of a Goat or Hare Albert. Rhas Being injected with oile it helps the ulcers of the intestines and old fluxes Gesn Applied it stops fluxions Gal. Applied with vineger it is a psilothron Rhas Drunk in wine it helpeth against venomed arrows The flesh in rutting time stinketh like that of a hee Goat and is then vitiated Sym. Seth. The powder of the bloud drunk helps the bitings of venimous beasts Plin. Solin The flesh eaten preventeth feavers As for the marrow See that of the Calfe and Bull. Solin Ointments made thereof help the burnings of those that languish Gal. It is a paregoricotaton Aesculap It easeth paine Used as an ointment it driveth away Serpents Sym. Seth. It mollifieth hard cankers Gyrald It discusseth Plin. It filleth and purgeth other ulcers as well as in the legs so the ashes of the horne It helpeth fistula's with Venus navil-wort The same helpeth purulent eares With rosin lime Goose grease and the fat of an hee Goat it helpeth the chaps in the lips some add onions With that of a Calfe and the leaves of a white thorne stamped it helps the ulcers and clefts of the mouth Sext. Drunk in hot water it helpeth the paine of the intestines though there are tormina Cels Used downwards in an old dysentery it helpeth it taketh away the paine and helpeth the ulcers Marcel With butter Bulls gall and the oile of cypresse or bayes it helpeth bruised knees Hipp. Melted with fat and applied with wool it mollifieth the womb he maketh also a purgatory remedy of the same A pessary of the same with that of a Calf mollifieth the womb also so applied outwardly Rhas It helps the paine of the hipps and sides and fractures also Agric. Used in a pessary it draweth forth the menses Albert. It helpeth the beating of the heart though some deny it Gal. The fat is inferiour to noe mollifying remedy Rhas It heateth and mollifieth or lenifies It softeneth hard cankers so Sym. Seth. Absyrt given to a Horse with wax it helps their cough of a cold cause used with wine after purgation and suffumigation Marcel With tarre pissasphalt and the milk of a Cow or Sheep used every day it mightily helpeth the phthisick Anatol. With a little wine and beane meale given three dayes to a Horse it helpeth their pissing of bloud The tallow burned with oister shells mightily helpeth kibes being applied Sext. Hipp. when fresh the fat helps exulcerated wombs he useth it also to purge the womb with other things Plin. The fume of the haire helps the womb also Sext. It helps against abortion Plin. The shavings of the skinne done by a punice stone and stamped in vineger help S. Anthonies fire Magicians bind many amulets in the skinne Gal. Applied to the right thigh with the juyce or seed of henbane steeped in Asses milk it helpeth pissing in bed Aetius useth the bones of the leggs in the antidote of Philagrius against the gout And in that of Julian being burned against the stone and epilepsy Gal. The
of bed in Children so Rhas Avic In so much that being eaten often it causeth a dysury though some say it cureth the same Plin. That of the Sea drunk with the prickles expelleth the stone Avic Scrap The flesh of that of the Land helpeth long feavers and venimous bitings of Serpents Avic The fat Diosc or rather the flesh dryed helpeth the fluxes of the bowells Aetius maketh a remedy thereof against haires pricking the eyebrows sc of the bloud Archigenes addeth the Gall of the same and castor Rhas Albert. The bloud with Honey and hot water used as a gargarisme helps hoarsenesse The liquour of the left eye fryed in Oile put into the eare causeth sleep so Albert. Rhas Albert. Diosc The Liver dryed in the Sunne serveth as the flesh dryed Avic or against fluxions of the bowells Aelian It so helpeth the Elephantiasis Plin. The Gall is a Psilothron so also mixed with the brain of a bat and Goats milk or other milks Rhas The collyrie thereof helps the eyes Plin. With water it helps white spots in the eyes and Warts The Spleen used for two dayes with Vineger of squills helpeth the paine of the Spleen Marcel so being rosted and eaten The Reines dryed help the Leprosy phthisick dysentery and cough Marcel the fresh dung and Sandaracha with Vineger and Tarre being applied stoppeth the falling off of the haire Marcel the prickles of a Hedghog sticking in any part of the Body or feet are removed the feet c. being held in mans urine warme Schrod Hartm The grease helpeth the hernia the inward skinne of the ventricle helpeth the collick Jonst The flesh dryed helpeth the like The fat helpeth the stone The bloud helps the heat of urine As for the description it is needlesse being known to all people It is an enemy to the Bear Woolf Foxe Viper and Pondweed When assaulted it contracteth the Body it changeth the place of abode according to the change of the winde They generate after the way of rationals they are either Sow-like or Canine as to their differences Hee-goat Hircus P. In most Countries of the World inhabited M. Of Herbs Trees and Shrubbes c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Atud Arab. Teus Maez Hee-goat Aegin Gal. T. the flesh is of bad juyce and hard to be digested the next is that of Rams and that of Bulls worse amongst all which the flesh of the gelded is better and that of the oldest the worst The flesh is very hurtfull by reason of its hardnesse and difficulty in alteration Isaac the flesh is of worse juyce than that of Goats Aristot Bapt. Fier it is vitiated and stinketh in the time of lust Albert. by castration it becommeth more cold and moist Aegin The testicles resist concoction and cause vitious humours H. Platin. the liver as also of the Goat causeth the Epilepsy V. Sext. The fume of the haires helpeth the pain in the groin Plin. The powder of the horne with nitte and the seed of tamarisk with butter and oile helpeth the falling off of the haire the head being first shaved Sext. The ashes applied with meale help the scurfe and itch of the head Marcel Mixed with the gall and an equall weight of myrrhe they help the stinck of the arme holes being applied after the removall of the haire Matth. Some sell the bloud of a Hee-goat with dry services c. made up in stead of Sanguis draconis with rosin Diosc Avic The bloud dryed and drunk in wine helpeth against poyson Avic It presently ripens hot abscesses See that of the Bull. Aetius mixeth it with remedies against the Gout Marcel Applied it helpeth the Leprosy Applied fresh it helpeth against haires that trouble the eyes after evulsion Plin. It helps dimnesse of the eyes Sext. It stoppeth bleeding Plin. Eaten it helpeth the pain of the liver Dios When well dryed it helps the dysentery and flux of those that are coeliack See that of Goats Marcel So rosted an the coales Sext. mixed with rofin and fine wheat flower and so applied to the belly it helpeth the tormina Plin. With marrow it helpeth the Dropsy Avic Drunk it breaketh the stone Albert. So with stone parsley and wine some adde the powder of an hedg sparrow Some call it Manus dei so Aetius Alexander and Avicen Trallianus useth it outwardly also and it helps the dysury Marcellus addeth time also pennyroyal the ashes of a polypus white pepper parsley and the seed of Alexander Marcel It dissolveth the Diamond some use it with vineger or curd that it may not coagulate Plin. The flesh boiled in water helps impostumes in any part As for the marrow see that of the calfe but that of the harts is the best then the Calfes Hee-goats and Shee-goats Gal. The fat of kids is lesse hot and dry than that of Goats that of Goats than of the hee-goat and the hee-goats than the Lions Diosc It is very discutient Avic It resolveth more than the rest Plin. With St. Katharines flower brimstone and flower-deluce it helpeth freckles and spots and chaps of the lips with goose grease harts marrow rosin and lime Columel melted with old oile tarre and Cows marrow an it helpeth swellings in the necks of cattel Plin. stamped with the feet of locusts it helps the Leprosy Applied with locusts it helps scabbed nailes Marcel Injected with green oile it helpeth the dysentery Dios Rhas Applied with the dung of a Goat and saffron it easeth the gout some adde pepper the stalks of ivy pellitory of the wall or the flowers of wild cucumbers as also the stalks of elder and the juyce of torne sole Gal. The liver is of the same effect as the Goats Plin. It helpeth against the biting of a mad Dogge so Ponz this as the ashes of the horn or dung drunk in vineger stops bleeding or applied to the nostrils Plin. Applied hot it helpeth the Leprosy Boiled and drunk in austere wine it helpeth the coeliack or applied with myrtle oile to the navil some adde rue thereunto Marcel The same helpeth the dysentery Diosc Being eaten it helps the Epilepsy The gall is more weake than that of the Bull. It helpeth thyme warts and extuberancies in those that are Elephantick Plin. With Bulls urine it helpeth scurfe so with brimstone as also freckles with cheese crude brimstone and ashes of a sponge mixed to the thicknesse of Honey Diosc It helpeth the dimnesse of sight Gal. As also ulcers of the eyes and white spots therein and hindereth the grouth of haires that trouble the eyes they being first eradicated See that of the Sow or Hogge Plin. The spleen rosted helpeth the coeliack Marcel And applyed warme easeth paine Albert. The testicles rosted and eaten cause the generation of males Plin. The dung boiled with Honey helpeth apostumes Anon. mixed with vineger it helpeth black pushes Sext. Applied with wine it draweth out what is fixed in the flesh Plin. It helpeth ulcers except those in the legges Gal. 15 globuli thereof drunk
helpeth the alopecia with sowbread and brimstone but this is more effectual Being warmed it extennars cicatrices with myrrhe honey and saffron to which some add the flowers of brasse which Marcellus the Empirick appropriateth to the eyes being boiled with vineger with a like quantity of the slough of a Serpent and put into the eare with a cloath dipped therein being first fomented with hot water by a sponge it giveth great ease It loosneth the belly used as that of the Bull and helpeth the womb to which some adde oile of almonds Plin. The spleen boiled in wine pounded and applied helpeth the small ulcers of the mouth Marcel The glue dissolved in vinegar with a little unslacked lime to the thicknesse of honey applied helpeth the leprosy being left to dry thereon Plin. So boiled with vineger and honey That made of the genitals dissolved in vineger with live brimstone helpeth the tetters of the mouth used twice in a day Plin. It helpeth broken eares dissolved in water Plin. The fume of the dung helpeth those that are hurt by the Scorpion The ashes with vineger stop bloud Marcel With Womens milk it helpeth sordid ulcers Plin. Applied fresh it helps S. Anthonies fire The ashes with the boyled bulbs of lillies and a little honey helpe the paines of swelled vaines and all inflammations and suppurations The ashes with vineger help warts The dung kneaded with oile and gum helpeth the skin discoloured in the summer time Marcel With new oesipus honey butter and a dogs gall mixed it taketh all spots out of the face Plin Boiled in wine it helpeth melancholy Marcel And when fresh helps those that are collerick Plin. That of the male applied helpeth the dropsy Boiled in wine it helpeth the inflation of the intestines It helpeth late luxations so that of a Boar or Sow Marcel And the joynts with the dregs of vineger it helps the gout With vineger it helpeth the swelling of the testicles The ashes with the decocte◠bulbs of lillies and a little honey helpe the gout and articular diseases The urine when first calved with that of a Goat or Bull and a third part of vineger made to fume helpeth the paine of the ears and deafenesse Jonst The bloud of a Calfe with meat cut small being set in a pot for 10. days is a very good baite for fish Camel Camelus P. In Africa and Asia India and Arabia M. Of rushes barley grasse and thistles N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Gamal Arab. Gemal Camel Gal. T. Aristot Plin. Both their milk and flesh are of all the sweetest Their milk is drunk with twice or thrice so much of water yet some commend the milk only as sweet When nere the time of bringing forth there milk is more thinne All milk doth obstruct especially the liver except that of Camels when great and the Asses and Mares so Avic Also it is something salt Being used it causeth freckles or the morphew sc All but this It looseneth the belly as the other two It is the thinnest of all and of a better and more thinner juyce It extenuats thick excrementitious humour and frees from obstructions by reason of its vehement heat so Rhas Also the flesh is hot and dry V. Gesn One that is poysoned being put into the belly of a Camel or Mule new killed is helped thereby the heat thereof resolving the poyson and strengthning the spirits and all parts of the body so Ponzet Avic The flesh provoketh urine yet some affirme it of that of the hart The fat in the bunch burned helps the hemorrhoids by its fume Hal. The bloud dried helpeth the disentery and long flux of the belly Avic It stoppeth fluxions drunk after the purging of the termes it causeth conception so Gesn Though he doubts of the same It helpeth the epilepsie Plin. So the braine dried drunk in vineger so Gal. de Ther. The teeth help the excoriations of the intestines and hemeroides applied The froth drunk maketh demoniack Rhas The powder of the lungs drunk causeth blindness Plin. The Gall drunk with hony helpeth the falling sickness and quinsy Marcel Applied to the forehead it helps dimness of the eyes some adde hony and saffron thereto and then it cureth excrescencies and cicatrices there Plin. The taile dried looseneth the belly The haires thereof twisted together and bound about the arme help quartan agues Avic The milk when they are newly impregnated helpeth the asthma and shortness of breath It helpeth against the dropsy and hardness of the spleen as also that of the Goat and Asse Rhas It strengthens the liver openeth obstructions leasoneth the hard spleen and helpeth the dropsy being drunk hot especially sugar being mixed therewith Avic The milk when first great with oile of mock-privet helpeth the inward parts Except the same all milk is unwholsome for those that are splenetick and hepatick and those that want an attenuating diet For this agreeth with most distempers of the spleen and liver and increaseth the same Also it is very good in the dropsy especially drunk with their urine Avic It causeth a good stomach and thirst also it provoketh the termes and helpeth the vices of the hemorrhoids Haly the milk of a Camel is a good antidote against poyson And it helpeth the decayed temper of the body mollifying the belly Some say the ashes of the dung with oile curle the haire And applied help the dysentery And the epilepsy so much as may be taken with three fingers being drunk Avic The dung hindreth the marks of the small pocks and taketh away warts also it stoppeth the flux of bloud out of the nostrils The white dung powdered and applied with hony represseth tumours and purgeth dry wounds also it resolveth ulcers and schrophula's The urine helps running ulcers Plin. Being drunk it moveth the belly Applied it helpeth dandriff Avic It helps the losse of smelling also it helps the dropsy as also that of a man Matt. Some say that sal ammoniack is made of the urine thereof Jonst As for the description the foot is divided back knobbed taile like the Asses they are teated like a Cow the genital is back wards the buttocks narrow and gall venous They can abstaine from drink 15 dayes They engender backwards a whole day together and goe twelve months They are enemies to the Horse Lion and Oxe-fly Their deseases are the gout and baldness They live a hundred yeares They are revengeful docible love musick are bashful and compassionate They knele down when loaded and carry about 600 weight The Dromedarie will run 100 miles in a day Some are brown some white as to their differences Capricerve Capricerva P. In the Indies Persia Peru and like places M. Of a herb like Saffron and Hermodactils N. Capra Indica Montana Sylvistris Pazon Pers Capricerve Jonst T. The flesh of the last is not very pleasant yet eaten by the Indians V. A piece thereof applied presently helpeth the pain of the eyes being applied fresh Their stone called bezoar Garc.
the intestine crooked the excrement liquid The liver slit the lungs puffed up without an inner rim in the lower belly spleen bladder or reines and tongue of a foot long Peiresc Kept some thereof to see their formation and eruption in which he observed a great number of eggs They are enemies to the Hawk Crow Elephant and Vipers Celsus Saith that their mouth is always open In the winter they lye hid like the Lizard They are of the colour of what is next except red and white yet Gassendus affirmeth it not of those of Peirescius Some thereof are pale some black and of other colours as to their differences Cony Cuniculus P. In Germany France Italy and England c. M. Grass trefoile lettuce sowthistle c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Schaphan The young Laurix Cony T. Anon. Some count the flesh sweet and like that of a Cat. Platin. It nourisheth better and more easily than that of the Hare The brain as also that of the hare is commended against poysons V. Gesn Marcel The powder of a Cony burned alive in a pot with the like quantity of costus being drunk in wine sc one sponeful and the jawes rubbed with the same helpeth the quinsey Sylv. The fat is betwixt that of the Bull and Sow as also that of the Fox Badger and Cat c. It serveth to asswage the nerves which is affirmed by Vrsin Schrod And helpeth the hardnesse thereof and of the joints It is a very fearful and prolifick creature Jonst The fat in some helpeth the difficulty of urine The description is not necessary by reason of the commonnesse thereof They generate in halfe a yeares time or in a year then every moneth in hot countries If one departeth from a place the rest follow They chew the cud are emulous and easily tamed they stop their nest with sand that they may not be discovered and goe to them only in the morning and evening Their difference is from their colour magnitude intralls and place Aldrov Dur. Their flesh is cold initio primi dry 20. The fat helps vices of the urine Wecker maketh an ointment thereof for the same purpose the skin helps against cold Cow c. Bos. P. In England Scotland Ireland and almost all Countries M. Of grasse shrubs and leaves of trees N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Bakar Vacca Junix the Heifer Cow Gesn T. The flesh nourisheth much and the bloud generated thereof is more grosse therefore it causeth diverse melancholick diseases in those that are of that temper it is difficultly concocted but then it mightily nourisheth and compared with sheepes flesh it is cold and causeth melancholy bloud but it may be taken with vineger garlick and rue it is fit only for hot and strong stomacks and those that labour so Sym. Seth. Gal. The flesh is not moist pituitous or tender but hurteth much by reason of its hardnesse and difficulty in alteration Also it yeeldeth not a mean aliment or that may be easily dissipated but causeth too grosse bloud and so hurteth those of the same temper feeding too largely thereon Causing cancers the leprosy scab quartane ague and melancholy also swelling of the spleen after which in some followeth a cachexy or a dropsy The same flesh is so much thicker in substance than the Hogs as that is more clammy than it The young is best for young people and therefore the swines flesh being more moist than beefe Also beasts are fattest and fittest for mans body when they goe to grasse and after are more leane and of worse juyce So those that feed on shrubs and branches of trees The flesh of Hares causeth grosse bloud but is of better juyce than that of Cowes and Sheep Beife is of little and slow nourishment being cold dry so generateth an impure and melancholick juyce and causeth diseases thereof arising Isaac Platin. It stayeth long in the stomach and stoppeth the belly Especially the old the young is temperate of good nourishment strengthning so Cresc Plat. Beife ought to be boiled Celsus counteth it of the most nutriment fittest for the stomach amongst domestick creatures and is not so subject to corruption The Cows milk is the fattest the Sheeps Goats lesse fat so Gal. The milk of a Cow Asse Mare doe more loosen the belly than the Sheeps which is sweet thick and fatt The three former are most fit for the belly but trouble the same so Diosc Crescent The milk and cheese of Heifers is not so fit nutriment for man as that of Sheep Var. The milk that is most purging is first the Mares secondly the Asses thirdly the Sheeps fourthly the Goats Bapt. Fier The best is the Goats next the Sheeps and then the Cows Aeg. The most temperate is the Womans then the Goats Asses Sheeps and lastly the Cowe's The Goats is temperate in substance lesse purging than the Cows which is the fattest and thickest fit to nourish and penetrates moderately The cheese is styptick to which that of mares is like and of much nourishment V. Plin. The ashes of the tip of a Cowes horne helpeth the cough Two spoonfuls thereof made into pils with honey helpe the phthisick Rhas If of a heifer applied with vineger it helpeth the morphew and stoppeth the bleeding at the nostrils Marcel Two spoonefuls of that part next the head with water warmed and a little vineger drunk three dayes together help the spleen taken fasting Plin. The ashes of the hoof applied with water discusse hard swellings in the body Rhas That of a heifer causeth milk in Women and strengthneth them That of the huckle bone of a Cow drunk stops bloud and the menses Gal. So the ashes of a Bulls thigh Avic That of a heifer bindeth the belly which Galen affirmeth of the filings of a Bulls horne That of the ankle applied in wine fastens the teeth Plin. Rhas Hal. affirme it of the ashes and that it fastneth the gums Plin. And with myrrhe is a dentifrice Gal. The same powder drunk with honey killeth wormes Rhas And with wine those like gourd seeds Gal. Rhas Hal. The same with mulled vineger looseneth the spleen Gal. It also helpeth white spots Hal. and the leprosy Gal. Hal. It gently causeth venery Plin. The liquour helpeth wrinkles The flesh applied for five dayes when boiled helpeth the bitings of men but veal is more effectual The same applied helpeth tumours when hot it helpeth impostumes so the gall and bloud Marcel Plin. Applied fresh to the privities it helpeth the ulcers thereof and epiphora's The same boiled in water and vineger an and eaten tempereth the stinking savour and corrosions of the stomack S. Seth. The broth helpeth the flux of the belly caused by yellow choller Plin. if of a heifer as also the marrow It helps the ulcers and clefts of the mouth Plin. The ashes of a Cowes hide with honey helpe phagedens that of an old shooe soale helps gallings by the shooe Diosc as also burnings
haire also so the gall they being first pulled up The fume of the flesh or bones of a man found in the stomach thereof helpeth the gout The kell with oile helpeth inflammations in ulcers The ashes of the back bone with the tongue and right foot of a Sea Calfe and Bulls gall being boiled and applied with the skinne of an hyena help the gout The bones of the back help those that bring forth The fume of the first and eigth ribb helpeth ruptures The flesh and liver eaten cure the bitings of a mad Dog The liver eaten before the accessions helpeth quartans The sanies of it rosted with despumated Honey helps the glaucoma Diosc The gall is very effectual Gal. It 's used in ocular remedies as also that of a Cock Partridg and certaine other creatures it is also stronger than that of a Bull which exceeds the Hogs Sheeps Goats and Bugils yet it 's inferiour to that of the fish called Callionymus Sea Scorpion or Tortise The gall applied after evulsion hindereth the grouth of haire so Marcel and Gal. Also it sharpeneth rhe sight and discusseth the beginnings of suffusions with Honey Plin. And white spots in the eyes Marcel Some adde that of Bears to it Applied to the forehead it helps bleare eyes with Honey and saffron Also it helps the argema roughnesse excrescencies and cicatrices therein Marcel Used to the forehead it helps all paines of the eyes Rhas Albert. That of the male bound to the left thigh of any one causeth coiture drach 1. thereof drunk with the decoction of spikenard helpeth the tympany the membrane thereof drunk in Wine by those that are cardiack helps the same With the Asian stone it helps the gout The spleen helpeth the spleen The flesh with oile sc that of the loines helpeth the loines The fume of the fat hastens delivery The bladder drunk in Wine stops the urine The womb with the bark of the sweet Pomegranate helpeth the womb The fume of the genitall helps the spasme The substance taken with Honey causeth venery The feet applied help the bleared eyes ruptures and inflations The dryed dung drunk helpeth the dysentery and applied with Goose grease helpeth the whole Body hurt by evil remedies This as also that of an Hog may be put into plaisters against the bitings of a Crocodile Hieron Vincent Bel. It cureth putrid wounds Tops as for the description they are about the bignesse of a Woolfe but rougher haired having bristles along the back like a Horses mane the midle of the back is dented the colour yellowish but speckled on both sides with blew spots which cause him to looke terribly Their eyes change their colour at the pleasure of the beast They see best in the night The neck cannot bend except the whole Body be turned about Their heart is great and the genital like a Dogg's They procreate with Dogges Lyons Tigers and Woolves Their teeth are like Sawes The female is most subtile she counterfeits mans voice c. in the night and so gets a prey They are enimies to the Pardal I. Ibex Ibex P. They are bred in the Alpes in Clifts M. Of Herbs as other Beasts N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Ako Arab. Ohal Aegoceros IBex T. the flesh is not mentioned as to use Gesn V. the bloud helpeth the stone in apiate Wine taken thrice in a day Marcel The dung with Pepper Honey and old Wine helps the sciatica and joynt aches The curd is like that of the Hare So Serapio and Jonston c. Tops Against the stone one part of the bloud is used with 6. parts of the aforesaid Wine and Honey and so made luke warme using a bath at noon and in the evening after it for three dayes together As for their description the neck and haire is like a bucks with a beard under the chin the Hornes are 16. palms long bending backwards in other parts the Body resembleth the harts They are very swift and of incredible agility in leaping if they fall they couch their Bodies betwixt their hornes They love cold and otherwise would be blinde Their colour is yellowish and the hoof cloven like a Goats Hunters drive them to the smooth rocks They copulate by standing on their hinder legges and leap on the hunters their hornes serve for bowes Ichneumon Ichneumon P. In Aegypt neere Nilus and other places M. Of Mice Serpents Snailes Lizards and Birds c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mus Pharaonis Indicus Lutra Aeg. Ichneumon T. the flesh is not used Aegin Avic V. the fume of the haires helps against wormes Gal. The dung may be used in steed of the Cats Marcel The urine with the milk of a black heifer presently helps the collick Jonst The ashes of the skinne steeped in vineger help against the bitings of Serpents men being anointed there with As for the description hee is of the bignesse of a Cat but longer haired like a Woolf and nosed like a Hog with short round ears and black legs with 5. toes in the hinder He is long tailed with testicles tongue and teeth like a Cat. He is an enemy to the Crocodile breaking the egges when finding them It hates the Asp and all kinds of Serpents and the wind He bends together like the urtchin to defend from cold he sets up the haire when seing any creature and sets upon all with the rest and the Asp when dirty K. Kid. Hoedus P. Almost every where in England c. M. Of milke after of shrubbs c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Gedi Arab. KId. Gal. T. it's next to Hogges flesh in goodnesse Avic it 's lesse excrementitious than that of Rams It is temperate easily concocted meanly nourisheth and begets thinne and moist bloud it helpeth those that are of a hot and dry temperament Plin. The lungs prevent drunkennesse The flesh is best in the Summer As for the dressing thereof it may be seene in Apicius and Platina V. Gesn The flesh applied warme helpeth the bitings of Serpents The fume of the haire driveth away Serpents Plin. The fresh skinne helps stripes The fume of the haires helps the womb Gal. The broth made of the flesh helpeth the quinsey and inflammation of the tonsills Diosc The dry bloud is very profitable in antidotes Plin. It helps against poyson Drunk warme with vineger it helpeth the spiting of bloud It is used against the coeliack and dysentery Gal. The fat is lesse hot and dry than that of Goats The French make a pomatum thereof with camfire and rose water against chaps of the lips and to defend Womens faces from the Sun Some adde musk gum dragant ceruse and Goats milk with cloves And it 's then of the nature of the unguentum album camphoratum Some adde washed lime Goose grease harts marrow onions and rosin for the same purpose Plin. The ashes of the thighs help the ruptures of the intestines stop bloud and cure biles with Womens milk Marcel The curd is next to that
soft with a kinde of a down the ends of the hair on the back are whitish to the midst of the belly the eares are little and squarish the beard is of white haires like a cats the feet are shagged with five toes before and foure behind The crunium hath three futures the teeth are twenty They generate like dogs and bring forth two or three Their sight exceeds that of all other animals therefore they are said to see through solid bodies They are very swift and forget their prey if they looke back and are rough in the winter Lion Leo. P. In Mauritania Parthia Getulia and Syria c. M. Of the flesh of men beasts or birds N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Ari. Arab. Asad Pers Gehad Lion Albert. Isaac T. The flesh is hotter than that of other creatures grosse and slowly digested causing paine torsion and inflation Plin. Solin The Agriophagi in Aegypt eate the flesh as also that of Panthers Rhas Note the flesh of all rapacious creatures inclineth to drynesse and easily generates melancholick bloud in the body but of all the rest that of Woolfes Dogs is most condemned causing corrupt humours V. Rhas Albert. The bloud of a Lion rubbed on a cancer cureth the same Sext. The bloud rubbed on the body defendeth it from all beasts but Pliny attributeth the same to the fatt Sext. The flesh eaten defendeth from fancies Aesculap it helps all paines Albert. and the palsey Gal. Shooes made of the skinne helpe the paine of the feet Aesculap Being sate upon it helpeth the hemorrhoids Diosc The fatt is to be prepared as that of Bulls and is the hortest of all and groweth more hot by keeping and digesteth more than that of other foure-footed beasts being more hot and of thinner parts therefore it hurteth ulcers phlegmons but helpeth old tumours scirrhus's and spasmes That of the Bull is so much lesse hot than the Lions as it is more hott than the Swines so also in drynesse so Gal. the fatt resisteth poyson used with wine it expelleth evil beasts and the smell driveth away Serpents Aesculap The fatt of the reines used to the body driveth away Woolfs Rhas and flies Plin. With oile of roses it preserveth the skinne of the face causeth whitenesse and helpeth snow burnings paines of the joynts Albert. mixed with unguents it remooveth spots of the face which others affirme of the dung Sext. The fatt easeth all paines as also that of the nerves and knees being mixed with Harts marrow and lettuce Plin. With oile of roses it helps quotidian feavers Sext. Being dropped into the eares it helps the paines thereof Marcel and the tonsils being anointed therewith Being injected into the body in a clyster it helpeth the dysentery With the gall it helps the epilepsy The braine eaten causeth madnesse and dropped into the eare with oile it helps deafenesse Rhas The dogge tooth of a Lion hung about the neck of a child preventeth the toothach Plin. The heart eaten helpeth quartans Albert. The liver drunk in wine helpeth the paine of the liver Bertrut The gall drunk causeth present death though some attribute it to that of the Leopard With water it cleareth the eyes and with the fatt it helps the epilepsy being tasted Albert. A little drunk cureth the jaundise Gal. With honey it helps the ulcers and white spots in the eyes Used in a pessary it causeth conception Albert. The testicle taken with roses causeth sterility Aristot. Their bitings and wounds are cured as those of dogs that are mad and Woolfs sc By scarification washing with vineger taking out the splinters applying plaisters to suppurate purge and cicatrize as Aetius informeth Jonst The powder of the heart helps the epilepsy The fatt helps kibes The powder of the bones drunk with agrimony water cureth simple feavers As for the description he hath a mean head square forehead high eyebrowes eyes not very voluble or prominent nose thick jaws equal wide mouth neck large and thick brest strong metaphren broad and the middle of the belly narrow legs strong and nervous haire yellow and crisped with five toes in the foremost feet and foure in the hinder The Lionesse is smooth teated the bowels are like the Dogs the spleen black the marrow in the bones is little Their temper is most hot and dry by reason of the heat of the heart They drink little They generate with the Panther Leopard and Hyena sc the Lionesse and with the Dog They bring forth after six months and six young ones at once They love the Dolphin and hate the privities of a Woman bristles of Hoggs wild Asse Bull and Ape They looke on the earth that they may not fear the hunter They sleepe with the eyes open wagging the taile Their noise is hideous They will oppose a multitude of opposites and run only when not seen drawing in their nailes They are taken in pits M. Mole Talpa P. Almost every where in pastures and other places M. Of Worms earth and roots of herbs c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Pelagoz Mus terrenus MOle T. The flesh is not used in meat Plin. V. They help the bitings of the shrew so applied so Plin. Valer. Hal. They help the wounds of Scorpions Sext. Applied they help glanduls Arnold Olivar Their excrements with honey help the kings evil Furner The water in which they have been soaked till the haires come off used twice or thrice taketh away haire Ruf. The oile in which they have been boiled till dissolved causeth grouth of the same in horses The lye in which they have been often boiled used warm causeth white haires in horses Anon. So the fatt after long boiling The ashes applied with the white of an egge to leprouse parts help the same so Albert. Olivar So with oile or honey Plin. Marcel The ashes with honey help the Kings evil Vincent And the fistula Sext. Also it fastens the teeth The bloud causeth hair on a bald head so Albert. Anon. applied with paper it helps the paronychia Plin. Applied it helps the lymphatick The earth he casts up with the head helps wens and impostumes so the liver The tooth helps the teeth Schrod The ashes of a mole or want taken inwardly with beer or wine helpe the running gout The D. is scrup sem daily The heart helps the rupture one being taken at a time for three or foure dayes Jonst The ashes help fistula's They have little sight but excellent hearing Their description is needlesse Tops Usually they have a black dusky colour when they digg after wormes they creep out of the earth to avoide them In July they run upon the earth to seek food worms then being scant Their enemies are Weafels Wild Catts They may be taken by fastning pikes over the places where they work with a bridge They are killed by putting white hellebore and hemlock into the holes also burne sulphur to drive them away Mouse Mus. P. Almost every where in houses and
when newer and more nourishing when thick also it 's better than the milk of Cows so the cheese The milk is thick sweet and very fat yet not so fit for the stomack as the Goats Diosc Also the milk of an Asse Cow or Mare doth more loosen the belly than the Sheeps this being more thick Gal. The fattest milk is that of the Cow the Sheeps and Goats is lesse fat It is thicker than the Goats but the frequent use of it causeth the morphew Of milks the Womans is most temperate then the Goats Asses Sheeps and lastly the Cows so Aeg. Var. Milk is the most nourishing of any food we use that is liquid especially the Sheeps then the Goats Plin. The Goats is most fit for the stomack feeding more on Leaves than Herbs the Cows is more medicinal the Sheeps sweeter and more nourishing and lesse fit for the stomack being fatter and yeelding the fattest butter Var. The Cheese is next to that of the Cow Crescent And is best when new and better than that of the Cow V. Plin. The warme skins help the wounds of stroaks and such as are beaten Gal. in a day and a nights space it concocting and digesting the bloud under the skinne so Rhas and Albert. See Ram. Sylv. The skinne of the feet and snowt of an Oxe or Sheep being boiled by a gentle fire till like curd and dryed in the aire helpeth ruptures Plin. The bloud drunk helps the falling sicknesse The flesh burnt with water helps the vices of the privities so Plin. Cels The broth with vomiting as also that of a Goose or Calf helps venimous bitings Anon. A cloath dipped in the tallow and applied helps burnings Plin. with nitre it helps the colours of cicatrices Marcel With salt it openeth panicles Plin. When old with the ashes of Womens haires it helps fellons With cantharides and the juyce of the berries of wild vine it helpeth ringworms or tetters The fat cureth the roughnesse of the nailes Marcel Applied as a cerot with alum it helps adustion by cold and kibes Gal. Applied with hot water it helps diverse vices of the eyes Plin. With the ashes of a Womans haire it cureth luxate joynts Marcel Being boiled and drunk with austere Wine it helps the cough Absyrtus used it for Horses also Plin. It helps the dysentery and iliak passion Marcel or coeliack Diosc The fat helps the gout so that of a Goat discussing much applied with the dung and saffron Marcel The fat of the reines with the ashes of a pumice stone and salt helps the paine and swellings of the privities Plin. And other vices thereof Plin. Marcel That of the kell applied stoppeth bleedings at the nostrils Diosc The marrow is praised in the 5th place after the Harts Calfes Bulls and Goats The liver cureth the nyctalopie the eyes being washed with the decoction and the marrow being applied to the paines and tumours Hippoc. The powder of the borne of a Sheep or Goat being suffumigated with tosted and shaled Barly with oile bringeth forth the secundine and menses Rhas Albert. The brain applied helps the watering of the eyes Plin. It facilitats the breeding of the teeth but Galen addeth honey thereto to make it more strong and effectual The lungs help black and blew spots so Marcel being applied warme and discusse the same Plin. Being rosted and taken they prevent drunkennesse and used hot to the head they cure the phrensy and lethargy Marcel They help the dysentery boiled with line-seed the flesh being eaten and the water drunk and applied hot they cure the gout or ease the same Plin. The liver helps the nyctalops and the decoction used Marcel So that of a white sheep boiled bruised and applied with water Hippoc. Being rosted in warm ashes and eaten 4. dayes drinking old wine it helps the inflation of Women that are great so that of a Goat Diosc The gall is not so good as that of a Bull. Gal. It is a little sharper than that of a Hogge and helps old and purulent ulcers of the eares Plin. With honey it purgeth the eares Marcel Being mixed to the consistence of a clyster with mulse and injected into the eares the ulcers being purged it most certainly healeth the same and being dropped into the eares with Womans milk it helps ruptures therein Plin. And convulsions Rhas Albert. applied it cureth a canker or corrosion of the flesh Being applied to the head with fullers earth till it be dry it helps scurfe Marcel or the itch Plin. With honey it cureth the Epilepsie especially that of the Lamb. Plin. The Magicians used the spleen against the pain of the spleen so Plin. being tosted and stamped in Wine and drunk it helps the iliack passion as also the wringings of the guts Plin. Marcel The ashes of the thighs with wax help the breakings of the joynts Plin. So of the jaws burnt Harts-horne and waxe mollified with oile of roses The decoction of the thighs drunk with linesced helps the dysentery Gal. The ashes or dust of the huckle bone whiten the teeth and help other vices of the same those of the bladder or of that of a Goat drunk with oxycrate by those that pisse in their sleep help the same The secundine helps many evils in Women See Goat Plin. The milk of Sheep helps against all poyson except that of aconite and flie called wagge legge With oatmeale water and honey it helps long diseases and wastings Drach 1. of swallows dung being taken in 3. cupsful thereof or of that of the goat before the fit helps quartains A gargarisme thereof helps the tonsils and jaws Marcel So that of a Goat or Cow when warme and helps the paine and swellings It is used against the phthisick being boiled and drunk with bastard saffron it looseneth the belly With wake robin it cureth the exulceration of the intestines Diosc Being boiled and having pebles quenched therein it stops exulcerating fluxes of the belly and the tenesmus so Marcel and boiled taken alone or with butter it helps the tormina and coeliack passion It is inâ—…ed also against corrosions caused by medicines so that of the Coâ—â— so Plin. Crescent the whay thereof moveth the belly and purgeth forth choller Plin. The butter thereof with honey with the ashes of a Dogges head or Womb decocted in oile helps the clâ—fts of the skinne about the nailes Marcel So with elicampane and hard swellings also Plin. With honey and an owle boiled in oile it cures ulcers The old cheese thereof helps the dysentery Marcel And drunk in Wine it cures the coeliack Med. Mys The dung with vineger helps warts fellons and the Thymi And burnings in ulcers with the rose-cerot Diosc and cornes so Rhas fere and Albert Marcel and Plin. as also all sorts of warts and carbuncles newly arising Gal. Applied with oile as a cataplasme it cures green wounds made by a sword or wood Plin. Applied with vineger it helps the bitings of the field Spider and of Serpents boiled in Wine
helps the purulencie thereof Vnc. 5. of the urine cure the Dropsy N ° 9. of their lice taken help the running paines of the joynts As for the former its affirmed by Jonston and Aldrovandus c. As for the description it 's needlesse they love the Goat and hate the Woolf Beare Tiger Elephant Crow Eagle Serpents Bees and Rocket They are hurt by aconite hereon prick-wood savin knotgrasse money-wort sheere-grasse pimpernel bitter vetch acorns and scortching fennel They will live about 10. yeares their noise is called bleating they are very simple even to a proverb yet the Rams are very fierce but they may be made to leave off their butting by hanging a board with little pricks in it over their fore heads They love cold springs and bite up the very roots of the grasse they have milk half a year They know their Lambs by smelling on their hinder parts Shrew Mus Araneus P. In England Italy Germany and other places M. Of the roots of herbs thistles and flesh N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Hanaka Hisp Musganho Shrew Gesn T. they are venimous insomuch that Cats will not eate them V. Marcel The ashes with Goose grease cure the swellings of the fundament some use them against fellons and swellings behinde the eares Plin. The ashes of the taile help those that are bitten by a mad Dog Applied it cureth its own bitings The signe of their bitings are inflammation pricking paine rednesse a black pustule and livid colour of the next parts and after it turneth to an eating ulcer It is cured by oxycrat cupping glasses and scarification if not ulcerated use mallows mustard and pellitory else use the decoction of the bark of a sweet pomegranat and apply the same Also use worm-wood vineger garlick hot water colewort album graecum cuminseed barley meale leeks and vervain drinking the decoction of southern wood also lambs curd myrrhe and storax Sivet Cat. Catus zibethi P. In Africa Aethiopia and India M. Of Sugar and other things N. Zibethi feles Catus Zibethicus Civetta Sivet or Civet Cat. Jonst T. V. gr 1. Applied to the navill helps the collick applying hot bread threon It 's commended by Crollius in an ointment against the vertigo and apoplexie being used to the extremities of the nostrils temples and crown of the head In the suffocation of the womb it 's used downwards It may be adulterated with the gall of a Bull liquid storax and honey It s used also in powders sopes waters oiles essences and suffumigations as may be seen in Ambrosinus Schrod Civet is hot moist and anodyne It 's applied to the navils of Children in the paine of the belly Jonst Cardanus Counts it dry Renod. and Amat Lus It 's neere to Musk sc hot and dry 20. and helps the phlegmons of the Dugges Buboes and hard impostumes Applied to the glans it causeth great delectation in Women And it prevents sterility so the fume Put into the eare it cures the pain The smel cures the epilepsy cold soda it inebriats in wine helps the heart warms the matrice and causeth the courses They yeeld it as the Musk Cat. Sow Sus. P. Almost every where but hated in Scotland M. Of Grasse Fruits Roots c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ital. Porco Scrofa Sow or Hogge Gesn T. the flesh is the best of all fleshes and is best when not too fat Pork is worse but the other is of easie concoction and generats good bloud sc that of a midle age but the old and young is very bad it being the moistest flesh and phlegmatick the other yeeldeth great nourishment and neere to the temper of man and is better than that of Goats or Calves yet it 's glutinous and causeth obstructions When young it 's mucous and too humid yet the parts of motion are best The rest is soon putrified especially in stomacks filled with bad humours causing viscous phlegme and thence the Gout Iliack passion stone of the reines and palsey c. the old is cold and hard causing melancholy and long feavers Muff. The flesh of a sucking Pigge is moist 3° and causeth crudities agues apoplexies weakenesse of memory and corrupt humours and is hardly digested by weake stomaks not the coat by the strong it is best dressed being stuffed with salt and sage Pork however prepared is thought by some to have quid flatuosum cacochymicum febrile when powdered it's best to be eaten with green sauce to coole the salt and qualifie the malignity of the flesh The bacon is of harder digestion therefore both as also brawn are not to be eaten without wine or strong bear spiced with ginger and exercise after them The harâ—net is stopping and of bad nourishment yet the liver of Pigges is counted nourishing but their Lungs are very phlegmatick and waterish V. Aet Young Pigges applied warme help venimous bitings drawing forth the poyson and easing the paine Pelagon The bloud given warme helpeth pneumonick Horses see Boare Aet The decocted old salt flesh stamped with old sharp cheese helpeth the hardnesse of the joynts Scrab The wounds of Elephants are helped by butter drawing out Iron fomenting the ulcers with Swines flesh The ashes of the salted flesh is drying The bloud of Swine is moist and lesse hot very like to mans temper Eumel The bloud being given hot to Horses with wine helps the coolenesse thereof Some use the distilled liquour thereof with juniper berries agrimony rue phu scabious fluellin burnet succory pennyroyal and treacle against the plague apostumes of the sides or ribes diseases of the liver or spleen inflation of the spleen corruption of the bloud feaver swellings trembling of the heart dropsy heat besides nature ill humours and chiefely poysons and pestilent feavers drinking 4. or 5. drops thereof The warm bloud kills warts Plin. With the braine it helps the carbuncles of the privities That of a Sow applied to the teats helpeth the growing of the same Gal. or that of a Hogge The fat is lesse hot than that of the Goat and lesse moist as also than that of other beasts being lesse hot and dry and nere to the nature of man that of Bulls is much more hot and dry Plin. Axunge is used to mollifie heat discusse and purge and is more strong when salted Diosc And helpeth the pleuresie being washed in Wine With ashes or lime it cureth inflammations fistula's and tumours Aeg. It 's of the nature of that of Foxes yet that is more hot and lesse moist Plin. With the ashes of Vines it helps against tumours the bites of Scorpions and Dogs with oile or with castoreum and hore-hound Diosc So with the froth of Nitre With quicksilver it helpeth the french pocks Seren. It helps the stiffenesse of the neck the hammes being anointed therewith Myreps With quicksilver it cureth the scab and itch With quicksilver oile of bayes and the juyce of fumitory used to the palmes of the hands and soles of the feet thrice in a day it expels the
Jay with black feathers bill and legges whitish about the neck with haires about the eye lids They breed in the tops of trees and sometimes joyne with Crows They lay 2. egges they love their young they are scabbed in the summer solstice they fly swiftly and they love the Stork and Crane but hate Owles Crow Corvus P. Desolate humid and high places that are tilled M. Of Corne Apples Cherries and Worms c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Satyra avis Heb. Oreb Arab. Gerabib Crow Aldrov T. the flesh is counted unwholsome they feeding upon dead bodies So for Hawks also V. Drach 1. Of the ashes drunk thrice in a day with the water of Castoreum helps the Epilepsy Philes the egges with myrtles make the haire black so the bloud and braine with black wine Rhas So the fat with rue and oile Ornithol The braine with vervaine water helps the Epilepsy Rhas The gall prevents venery with the oile sesamine Rhas The fume of the same makes the haire white The hearte is said to cause watchfulnesse Plin. Marcel Sext. The dung with wool helps the toothach Plin. And the cough in Children the fume helps the white scald also Kiran. The egges cause abortion Arnold The egges help the spleen with those of a Pigeon applied to the spleen Schrod The ashes of Crows help the gout The description is needlesse Jonst They lay 4. or 5. Egges sit 20. dayes live 40. years and hate Kites Cuckoe Cuculus P. Almost every where in England Holland c. M. Of Flies Birds Flesh Egges and Fruits N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Kaath Gugulus Albert. Cuckoe Aristot T. The young are fat and of good taste the flesh is used by the Italians V. Plin. Being applied in a Hares skinne it causeth sleep Some use the dung decoct and drunk against the biting of a mad Dog Rondel The ashes help the paine and moisture of the stomack Schrod And the stone it also helpeth the epileptick and those that have agues being given in the fit the description is uselesse Jonst usually they lay but one egge chiefly in the nest of the Hedg-sparrow which bred some say after doth devour the damme their flights are short interrupted and low Their voice is known They are enemies to birds friends to the Kite Their feathers come off in Winter and they are scabed D. Duck. Anas P. In watery and Fenny places and the like M. Of the roots and seeds af aquatick plants N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pappos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hisp Anáde DUck Aldrov T. The flesh is hot moist grosse hard not easily concocted and excrementitious Gal. It 's harder than that of the Hen or Pigeon yet Archigenes commends it for those that are stomachick Avic It sometimes causeth feavers and descendeth slowly out of the stomack loading the same but if it be concocted it yeeldeth much nourishment nourisheth more than that of other foule making far yet it 's not of so good juyce The best part in them is the wing the liver is good sweet of good juyce but this rather agreeth to Geese It s in moisture like Mutton hotter than that of other domestick soules Mes It 's very moist clarifieth the colour voice helps flatulencies strengthens the body Elluch It 's good for those that are hot young chiefely in the winter It 's hot and moist 2° it 's best rosted with spices Plat. It's hotter than the Goose Jul. Alex. The liver helps fluxes caused by the vice of the liver Alex. Ben. H. the flesh is naught in times of the plague Fracast And for the french pocks Savon Also it causeth nauseousnesse Bruyer Those are worst that are bred in Cities Villanov They are best in autumne but never good for temperate bodies The wild are better than the tame and the young than the old a dayes after killed They are bad for those that are melancholick but good in cold seasons and for those that labour As for the cookery thereof it may be seen in Platina and Apicius Muff. Young Ducks fed with grinded malt are of good nourishment clear the colour help hoarsenesse increase sperme and expel wind V. Marcel The flesh eaten helps the termina so applied alive to Cows Horses or Men. Avic It causeth coiture Gal. The bloud drunk with oile helps against poyson some potions bitings of vipers so Kiran. and Myreps Diosc Therefore it s used in many antidotes as the Diahaematon c. it helps the bleeding of the nostrils and confusions of the eyes being after anointed with Oesypus and honey It stoppeth the belly Serap The fat is hot subtile and better than the rest but this rather agreeth to Goose grease Myreps It 's used in plaisters against the pleuresy With oile of roses it stoppeth bleeding Villanov The dung applied helps venimous bitings The womb is used in the Antidotus Ecloge of Myrepsus against the coeliack passion and spitting of bloud Schrod Applied alive they help the collick The fat heateth moistens softens digesteth and resolveth therefore it 's used in inward and outward griefs sc of the sides joynts and cold distempers of the nerves c. As for the description it may be omitted Jonst They generate in March and are very salacious They sit neere waters They goe showly by reason of the shortnesse of their feet and they are almost of the nature of Geese They shun the Eagle by diving They foretel wind thereby and raine by their noise E. Eagle Aquila P. In Peru. Germany and Polonia and other places M. Of the flesh of Pigeons Geese and Swans c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Nescher Chald. Nisra Arab. Alneser EAgle Aldrov T. The flesh is hard fibrous and excrementitous begetting a black juyce therefore it 's fitter for Medicine than meat so D. Hieron V. The skinne dressed like that of a Swan helps the collick and vices of the stomack The nerves help paines of the nerves and gout The bones help the Hemicrania Those of the scull ease the headach The wings put under the feet accelerate delivery The feet help the pain of the loines The braine drunk in wine helps the jaundise With oile and a little Rosin of Cedar it helps the Scotoma and all affections of the head The tongue helps the incontinencie of urine Being hung about the neck in a linnen cloath it helps the rough arterie vices of the Columella difficulty of breathing and the cough so Gal. the heart is said to drive away wild beasts The powder of the ventricle helps digestion but it emaciats The powder of the liver drunk with the bloud and oxymel 10. dayes helps the Epilepsy Diosc The gall is the strongest of all Gal. It 's used against swellings and suffusions in the eyes An errhine may be made thereof for Children against flatulencies in the head With water it clenseth white spots in the eyes Applied it helps the bitings of the viper and venim of Scorpions The powder of the testicles
causeth venery The quills kill warts Serap The fume of the dung bringeth forth the Foetus Port. It driveth away Serpents Jonst The braine is so hot that the powder thereof taken causeth madnesse As for the descripton the body is thick and upright the bones have little marrow the bill is crooked eyes little quills hard claws aduncate gall eruginous bloud thick and fibrous dung very sharp They copulate often they can fly from morning to night very high they see well they hate the Swan Crane Stork Vulture Dragon and Serpents they live long but when old dye by reason of their crooked bills G. Goose Anser P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of Graine Grasse and the like N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ganza Hisp Ansaron GOose Muff. T. Galen commendeth only the giblets stomack liver of a Goose soddeÌ„ in broth The flesh of Goselings well fed is nourishing and pleasant but the best is the stuble Goose being of a middle constitution If it be above 4. moneths old it cannot be well digested without Garlick sauce exercise and strong drink Their moisture is corrected by stuffing them with spices and hot herbs Savonarola counteth the flesh hot Albertus cold and Galen more moist than of any water foule but their feeding sheweth them to be hot and dry they drinking often delighting to be in the coldest water and eating lettuce endive purcelane trefoile ducks meat and sowthistle Aldrov The Jews delight in the flesh thereof The flesh is hard musculous and not easily concocted also they cause little laudable juyce Therefore they are not often to be eaten by those that love their health being excrementitious also and more grosse hot and moist than any domestick foule being of the nature of the Ostrich so Elluch Rhas Avic Savon it causeth feavers Jul. Alex. It causeth obstructions but if well digested it 's of much and strong nourishment Alex. Ben. H. they are naught in the time of Pestilence Villanov And for those that are troubled with the hemorrhoids Fracast or with the french pocks as also those that have the gout in all diseases They are best in the Winter as also all other hot strong flesh The egges are worse than those of Hens Sim. Seth. Grosse and hardly concocted V. Bapt. Port. The flesh eaten causeth length of life Fiâ—in So the fat Port. It maketh loquacious and to tell what is done in dreames It cureth Hydrophobie and causeth venery Gal. The fat is more fit for use than that of Cocks but more digesting being of a thinner substance it 's the most emollient of all wild foul's more loosening than lard drying and easing paine and lassitude yet that of Hens or Hogs may be its substitute Aet It s hotter and dryer than lard Aeg. or Goats fat and of thinner parts Goose grease if not salted helpeth the paine of the matrix and is mixed with plaisters for the eyes and chaps of the lipps paines of the eares roughnesse of the face and colour It easeth paine helps biting humours all tumours inflammations with paine and phegmons with oile of roses Aesculap Constant Also against all hardnesses scirhus's S. Anthony his fire bruises with mustard-seed honey and wax in wounds to stop bleeding with butter and to help gallings with the braine alum and oesipus Hippocrates useth it against cicatrices With honey it helps the biting of a mad Dog With hot water and butter it helps against poyson Avic It helps the alopecia so Marcel and Gal. With the seed of cresses it helps scurse Plin. Sext. and ulcers of the head Apollon It helps the paine of the head and temples Plin. Injected into the nose with oile of roses it stops bleeding With oesipus and myrtle wine it causeth sleepe and it preserveth the skinne of the face so Diosc that it be not hurt by the sunne or weather so Ruel and Marcel Virg. It helps the vices of the eares Pliny and Marcellus adde earth worms Pliny useth it with the juyce of Basil With womans milk it helps contused and fractured eares so with myrrhe butter or rosin with the former it helps their inflammations tumours and rednesse Marcel With earth worms decoct it helps purulent eares Bapt. Fort. It helps deafenesse some adde the juyce of onions also or of garlick the same helps the sounding of the eares so with honey Sext. Also with Bulls gall Apollon And the paine thereof with the fatt and it helps deafenesse with saffron with nitre rosin and oile it helps the inflations of the eares It helps when any thing is fallen into the eare and brings out any humidity with saffron With butter it helps diverse affections of the nostrils It helps the ozaena and chaps of the lips so Diosc Sym. Seth Plin. and Marcel Avic So those of the face and ulcers of the mouth It helps rigors of the neck and tumours thereof with the yolks of eggs With that of Mice it helps crump-backs Plin. With oile of roses it preserveth the duggs after child-birth with milk it restraineth them With tarre and the powder of anet it helps the empyema With Sea crabs it helps the phthisick Plin. With oesipus urine myrrhe and oile of myrtles it helps the dropsy Marcel With the braine butter alum and oesipus it helps the reines In clysters it helps the collick The former composition helps all vices of the fundament Marcel With agrimony it helps the condylomata With warme water the tosted spume of silver galls white wine oile it helps the hemorrhoids in Women and paine of the fundament with oesipus as also the ulcers of the genitals so Diosc with the curd of a Hare and barley meale it helps the incontinency of urine Avic It cureth the vices of the womb sc without salt and fresh with Womans milk and oesipus it helps the paines thereof Hippocrates mixeth it with other things Plin. Hip. It helps its swellings and hardnesse he mixeth it with other things to purge the womb To draw out the difficult birth and the dead infant to expel the secundine stop reds help the dropsy of the womb inflammation suffocation pustules inflamed ulcers to cause conception and to hinder abortion as also to help the falling down of the womb Plin. Applied it helps the paine of the duggs breaketh the mola and easeth the scab or itch with wall lice Furner Used fresh with ligature it helps the wrinkles in the bellies of Women Kiran. It 's also used in pessaries The liquour is used with other things against the palsey and gout Extenuaton of the joynts and spasmes The broth helps against poysons as the cantharides toxicum coriander aconite and dorychnium Diosc The bloud is used in antidotes Myreps It resisteth poysons with vineger Diosc It helps the poyson of the Sea-Hare Plin. So with oile and all evil medicaments with the earth of lemnos and the juyce of the white thorne with water When dry it 's used against long agues Plin. The gall helps
The flesh is austere V. Marcel The ashes drunk in wine help the colon Rhas Applied as a cataplasme it helps the bitings of a Crab. Plin. The heart helps the paine of the sides The bloud used to the temples causeth sleep The fume of the feathers expelleth worms The tongue helps oblivion The skinne helps the paine of the head Rhas The eye as an amulet cureth the leprosy Schrod The feathers help the paine of the head Jonst As for their description they are a little bigger than a Quaile and of a duskish colour which they change in the autumne They have a tuft on their heads They make their nests in foggs They lay three eggs like but lesse than those of Partridges and of a stronger smell They fly gently Their noise shews raine K. Kingfisher Alcedo P. Almost every where by rivers and ditches M. Of fishes by diving under the water N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Halcyon Avis Possideonis KIngfisher Kiran. T. V. Some affirme that being rosted and eaten the flesh helps those that are demoniack which seemeth to be fabulous As also that the eyes applied in a linnen cloth to the head of those that sleepe too much cause waking Bapt. Port. So the flesh eaten the bird being wakeful Schrod Some say that the heart dryed and hung about the necks of infants helpeth the falling sicknesse As for the description it may be omitted as uselesse Jonst They lay five eggs and build on the shore They love the Males and keep company with them all the yeare Some say that their breast alwayes turneth to the wind being hung up by the bill with a thred in the house Kite Milvus P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of birds and carrion and the like N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Daah Arab. Cheda Kite Avic T. The flesh is grosse Aldrov Yet it 's eaten by poore people in Germany V. Some say that a twig of the nest laid under the head easeth the paine thereof and the opisthotonos The powder of the flesh helps the gout Gal. and the epilepsy Plin. so the liver eaten as also the opisthoronos drunk applied it helps the vices of the eyes so Bapt. Port. Marcel the testicles drunk fasting with spring water and honey help towards fecundity or venery Plin. The dung helps the paines of the joynts Florent The fume of the same with storax driveth away creeping things Port. and Serpents The worms of the flesh help the gout The gall takes away the spots of the eyes Schrod The D. of the powder is scrup sem or scrup 1. The bloud applied with nettles helps the gout so the fatt Jonst They love the Cuckow L. Lark Alauda P. In England France and Italy and other places M. Of Corne and wormes c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cassita Galerita LArk Durant T. The flesh is hot and moist without excesse and is fittest to be eaten when fattest sc in autumne and winter And is of good nourishment When rosted they help the appetite and are easily concocted especially with sage if not too stale Cardan It 's hot and dry Savon 2° sc The Cristed Elluch That without the Criste is the best V. Aldrov The Cristed larke helps the collick being eaten rosted or boiled so Gal. and Diosc Marcel Virg. Seren. and Plin. So the powder so Alex. Tral and Port. They discussing their flatulency by garrulity Note They are fattest in the winter having ratified bodies and the winter hindering perspiration Schrod The heart applied to the thigh helps the collick The fresh bloud drunk in vineger helps the stone As for the description it is uselesse Jonst They build with dry herbs on the ground and breed thrice in a year Their disease is the epilepsy M. Moorehen Gallina corylorum P About rivers pooles and marishes M. Of graine but their diet is not much observed N. Gallina vitium Bonasa Orix MOorehen Ornithol T. Some count it a noble meat and the best of all wild foule and say there are three colours in the flesh Albert. It 's black without but white within tender and of a very pleasant taste Auth. de nat rer Mundel In the goodnesse of the juyce it may be compared to the Partridg V. Stumpf. The flesh is good against the epilepsy The ventricle helps the asthma in horses So Jonston N. Nightingal Luscinia P. In woods almost every where in England c. M. Of worms ants eggs and bread N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acredula Ales Daulia NIghtingal Aldrov T. The flesh is sweet and wholsome V. It causeth watchfulnesse Kiran. The gall with honey cleareth the eyes Alex. Ben. The flesh eaten helps the cachexy The description is needlesse Jonst They breede in May. Their voice is known They hate the Viper and Hauke and are docible O. Ostrich Struthiocamelus P. In Africa Lybia Aethiopia and Arabia c. M. Almost of any thing N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Avis Lybica OStrich Gal. T. V. The ventricle taken in the quantity of two spoone fulls with wine helps the flux if there be no feaver but else with water Kiran. The stone taken out thereof and hanged about the neck helps concoction R. Mos the inward tunicle helps the stone Avic The flesh is hot and fatt causeth appetite strengthens the body and causeth coiture for it is of very hard concoction much superfluity grosler and harder than any flesh The fatt is more efficacious than that of the Goose With the diacinnabar plaister it helps hard swellings And is used against arthritick pain Hermol The urine takes out the spots of ink Kiran. The eggs help the gout Schrod The fatt helps the nervous parts and softens the spleen Jonst They generate as the Camel Owle Noctua P. In England France Germany and other places M. Of wasps bees lizards and mice N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Kos Nyctimene Owle Aldrov T. The flesh is little used in meat and if so by the poorer sort of people wanting better victuals R. Mos Yet if young it 's of good savour But Rhasis saith it's cold dry and grosse V. Some commend the bloud against the orthopnoea Aet It 's a psilothron after evulsion The flesh helps those that are paralytick R. Mos As also those that are melancholick and troubled in mind The braine eaten helps the headach The same as also the liver infused in oile and put into the eare helps its impostumes Rhas That of the male helps the nyctilops Plin. It helps the quinsey Schrod The gall helps the spots of the eyes and the fatt quickens them P. Partridg Perdix P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of snailes chickweed corn and ants N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Kore PArtridg Muff. T. The flesh is temperately hot but inclineth to drynesse 20. The old are as bad as old beefe When young and tender they agree well with cold weake watrish and pale bodies drying up a moist stomach strengthning the retentive power easily
They rolle themselves in the dust that they may kill their lice And they love their owne images Pigeon Columba P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of corne cumin and other seeds N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Jonah Arab. Chamamah Pigeon Aldrovand T. The old are of hard aliment and not to be used because of their excessive heat and drynesse Gal. They are of a middle juyce and the young of a subtile chyme Ruffus placeth them in the second order of laudable birds Sym. Seth. They are excrementitious Gal. the flesh is good for languishing persons Aver The young are hot and moist and of grosse juyce as may be conceived from their gravity in motion and celerity of concoction Aet The flesh is used in the cold and phlegmatick collick Aret. And the cephalaea Hipp. It helps the hepatick griefe Florent The young are good after diseases H. they cause inflammations and feavers Sym. Seth. They hurt the head and eyes and cause the leprosy if too much used Rhaf. and the quinsey therefore Avicen and Rhasis grant the flesh to the cold and moist c. the young are more temperate The tame are best boiled but the wild when rosted Avic The eggs are very hot and of a badd taste Muff. Pigeons are very hot and dry when old but hot and moist when young and the wilder sort is most wholesome after flight their foggy moisture being lessened by exercise and are best when bleeding to death under the wing the same rosted cause great store of bloud increase heat in weak persons cleanse the kidnies and quickly restore decayed spirits especially in phlegmatick and old persons for whom they are most proper yet some use them in agues so killed V. Aristot the flesh is most hot Aldrovand It is of harder concoction than chickens and generateth melancholick juyce and is excrementitious also Being often eaten it preventeth the plague It helpeth the epilepsy and palsey relaxation of the leggs trembling and want of sense Cardan The broth helps those that are cold Amat Lus The parts after dissection applied presently to the head help those that are melancholick or foolish Sex Empyr Villanov and help all venimous wounds so chickens The same help the paine of the reines and corrupted bloud Some commend Wild Pigeons against the gout The flesh helps the tenesmus The braine causeth venery so the testicles The bloud stoppeth bleeding at the nostrils Gal. and helps stripes of the eyes so the diasmyrnon of Democrates Avic The bloud helps the gout Alex. Ben. The fatt helps the dysury So the ashes of the feathers with netles The eggs help the rhagades and hemorrhoids Diosc The same help against Ceruse being given with frankincense and the decoction of barly Plin. The yolks cause venery The dung is most hot Therefore Galen used it in phoenigms against inveterate cold diseases Fernel It 's very hot attracting rubifacient with barly meale and discutient with vineger Being stamped with the seed of cresses it helps old paines of the hipps neck loines gout and joynt aches Aesculap It easeth all griefs and dryeth up humours Gal. It helps old paines of the head as the hemicrania and cephalaea also it 's used in paines of the eares Marcel Stamped with barly meale lard the white of an egge and boiled it helps the paines of the reines With barly meale and vineger it helps all tumours Diosc Plin. c. It helps carbuncles some adde honey and oile Marcel and swellings behind the eares The same openeth botches Oribas It whiteneth cicatrices being mixed with frankincense sope fullers earth or vineger Plin. So with honey and the morphew Marcel And all cicatrices with vineger Plin. The same helps cornes Furner The distilled liquour thereof with other things is cosmetick Aesculap It helps ringworms Hipp. It helps the baldnesse of Women Marcel It helps the alopecia Myrepsus also useth the same Plin. The ashes with oile help burnings and discusse hard swellings with barly and dry up humours with vineger it helps fistula's of the eyes and white spots Galen addeth frankincense unto it And useth it with salt and oile to discusse defluxions of the knees Villanov Applied it helps venimous bitings Tarentin and the wounds of the Forke-fish The parts dissected and applied to the fore part of the head help the apoplexy The dung with Crows eggs helps the epilepsy from black choller applied to the spleen using leeches before it it attracting the matter from the head to the spleen and so causing an ague especially in Autumne Myreps Applied it helps the inflammations of the tonsils Plin. So with dry figgs and nitre Aret. The fine powder causeth suppuration in the quinsey Gal. So with honey Plin. Also with wine and oile it helps the same Gal. Applied it helps the coeliack passion Plin. So drunk which some affirme concerning the collick Avic So used in clysters Plin. Applied with honey it helps the iliaca passio Gal. It helps old paines of the loines and those of the joynts Galen useth it with other things against the dropsy And Myrepsus in plaisters as also against the spleen and cachexy Marian. Sanct. Barolitan The powder helps the stone So made into an Electuary with that of Mice and hony c. So the water Gesn or vineger in which it hath been infused The fume with castor myrrh and opopanax brings out the dead birth It helps the hemorrhoids The dung of Hens is counted by some much lesse effectual but of the same nature so Diosc the ashes with honey and arsnick consume dead flesh and help all ulcers of the feet With vineger it helps the hemorrhoids Schrod The body dissected and applied mitigateth the fiercenesse of humours and discusseth melancholick sadnesse used to the head it 's good therefore in the phrensy cephalalgy and gout The warm bloud helps paines of the eyes suffusions and the gout The powder of the tunicle of the stomach helps the dysentery The dung burneth and discusseth therefore it 's used in vesicatories and rubifacient remedies against the gout hemicrania cephalaea vertigo and old paines in the sides shoulders neck and loines as also in the collick apoplexy and lethargy c. It 's given against the stone from scrup 1 to 2. Jonst That of those that live on Mountaines is strongest Their description is needlesse They kisse before generation They hatch two young-ones and sitt both They drink like beasts and are troubled with fleas Pye Pica P. Almost every where in England and Holland c. M. They are amongst the Pamphaga N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Raham Pye Rhas T. the flesh is too hot and abominable yet the young Ones are eaten by poor people Demet. Constantinop But it 's good for Hawkes V. Aldrov They are of a very hot temper as may appeare by their salacity later writers commend them being boiled and eaten as helping the visory spirits and the asperity obscurity rednesse and pain of the eyes Gordon So the powder or any
their young ones without egges after the kind of propagation of beasts Mullet Mullus P. Their abode is in the septentrional Ocean M. Of the Sea Hare or any thing N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Triglis Mulio Barbus marinus Mullet Gal. T. In the goodnesse of their juyce or pleasantnesse of their taste they cannot be compared with the Jack Umber or Sturgian c. Yet others commend them as fit for the stomach of good juyce pleasant taste fleshy hardly corrupted and mean as to excretion Cels These as also Pikes have a midle flesh but most other approved Authors count them hard Psel They are hardly concocted but nourish much Gal. The flesh is the hardest of almost all other Fishes and friable it nourisheth well when concocted so other hard meats and those of thick parts but those that are fat fill presently and destroy the appetite as also the viscous Aet They are good in the collick from cold and pituitous humours as also the Scorpions and Sparrows Diph. The flesh is acceptable to the stomach a little astringent hard styptick if rosted and heavy fried and hardly concocted Muff. The Sea Mullets mugiles mar differ little in Shape from Barbels They are of a light and aerial substance They hinder venery sperm courage and conception but their flesh is wholesome white sweet and tender They are much nourishing being first sodden in wine salt and water and then sowced like a Gurnard or kept in a gelly like a Tench or eaten hot with vineger and pepper Of their egges and bloud with salt is made the Italians Botargo Aldrov Which recovers the appetite causeth thirst and helps the taste of wine V. The ashes of the head with honey help gallings of the fundament that of the ventricle strengthens the stomach and consumes its humidity so dryed in an Oven and washed in white wine and the water of Mints and Wormwood being boiled in wine and taken in vineger it stoppeth vomiting so the intestines the fat being taken off for all fat things laxate the stomach Rond The stones found in their heads help against the Nephritick passion Aet The Mulli are not to be used in the collick from cold and pituitons humours as also in the hemorrhage and hemorrhoids Diph. For they attenuate the bloud yet are astringent if rosted Plin. Diosc H. eaten often they dull the eye-sight They hinder venery and the love of wine Rosted they help the tormina So Marcel and Tral Alex. Ben. They are good in the time of the plague Gariopont They help the Dropsy Marcel The flesh of their heads with honey helps vices of the fundament and the head discusseth carbuncles Diosc Applied fresh they help the bitings of the Sea Dragons Scorpion and Spider as also of the Fork-fish with Laser Jonst They breed thrice in a yeare They hate the Sea Hare Mussels Mytili P. They live in sandy places in England c. M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chamae Arab. Amarchas Mussels Wott T. The least are whitest softest and soonest digested but the greater are of stronger and larger nourishment the red ones are very daingerous the yellow ones are suspected but the white are wholesome and much commended except unto hot and destempered stomachs They are best sodden in the water out of which they were taken else in water and salt and a little strong ale and vineger Boiled Mussels encrease heat and drouth if fryed they easily corrupt in the body and turne to a bad juyce If they are kept in Srt. Goodrons pickle for Oisters made of Sea water Wine Vineger Bayleaves Mints Pepper Ginger and Cinamon they are as wholesome and more pleasant than Oisters Horse mussels are not a wholesome meat Plin. Tasting brackish and strong and having a hidden poyson in their flesh Jonst They loose their virulency being boiled with mustard and cresses The worst are in sandy places Plin. their broth increaseth the body The greater are hard and therefore hardly concocted They beget thick bloud and no good juyce but they nourish much and moove the belly and urine V. In physick they have the same use as the Musculi Diosc Applied they help the bitings of a mad Dog The broth openeth purgeth the reines and lesseneth the bloud and fat therefore they are very good for such as have the dropsy jaundise joynt ach inflations c. And to purge Women The shell is used to take up oile with all like a spoon O. Oister Ostrea P. In the Sea and Rivers about Rocks c. M. Of Sea water Mud and Dew N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ostreum Minsh Gal Huistre OIster Muff. T. They are a common and wholesome meat They differ in colour substance and bignesse but the best are thick little and round shelld not flaggy through abundance of gellied humours but short firme and thick of flesh rising up round like a Womans breast being in a manner all belly and short find of a green colour and listed about as with a purple haire and may therefore be called Calliblephara such are our Walfleet and Colchester Oisters which in good relish substance and wholesomnesse farre exceede those of Vsk Pool Southampton Whitestable and Rye c. Gal. They are somewhat heavy of digestion and engender phlegme but he knew not the goodnesse of our English Oisters which are the second best in the World every man loving them and they offending no indifferent stomach though eaten raw but rather setling a bad appetite confirming a weak stomach and giving good nourishment to decayed members through their own goodnesse or being much desired they were also alwayes counted of light digestion being to be eaten first The fattest are taken in salt waters at the mouths of Rivers but the wholesomest and lightest are the marine upon Shelfs and Rocks which also procure urine and stoole and help the collick and dropsy eaten raw but if sod they bind the belly stop urine and increase the collick They are to be eaten drinking wine or strong and hot beere after them else they concoct hardly Little Oisters are best raw and the great stewed with wine onions pepper and butter or baked with onions pepper and butter or else pickled with white wine vineger their own water bayes Mints and hot spices but they are worst sod except in Sea-water All Oisters are worst when full of milk which is commonly betwixt May and August raw Oisters are best in Winter and cold weather when the stomach is hottest sc from September to April yet the Italians never eate them raw but broile them in their shell with their water the juyce of an Orange Pepper and Oile and so they eate daintily Pickled Oisters may be eaten at all times and to the taste and judgment of some they are more commendable chiefely to cold weake windy and queasy stomachs than any way else prepared Some affirme Oisters may be kept all the yeare in Snow and so be eaten cold in the Summer
C. Cockatrice Regulus P. In Affrick as also in other places M. Of Frogges Serpents and other creatures N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Pethen Ch. Armene Sibulus COckatrice Tops T. Their poyson is hot venimous and infecteth the aire round about so that no other creature can live by him he killing by his hissing sight and touch both mediately and immediately having an universal poyson yeelding a burning fume and therefore they burne up the grasse where they goe which sheweth their dennes Their sight killeth men the beams thereof corrupting the visible spirit Their biting turneth the bloud into choller causeth yellownesse and after the flesh falleth off V. The powder of the flesh is said to give silver the tincture of gold As for the description They goe half upright and have a comb like a Cock they are feared by all other Serpents when seen or heard Some say they are bred of the egge of Ibis the bird others of that of a Cock arising from the concretion of sperm and putrifying heat They hate Weasels and Cocks D. Dart. Sagitta P. In Lybia Rhodes Lemnus Italy and Sicilia M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jacularis Jaculus Serpens volans DArt Matth. T. Their poyson causeth present death Aet Avic The cure of their bitings if there be any at all is the same which cureth that of the Viper V. The gall hereof which lyeth betwixt the back and the liver mixed with the Scythian stone yeeldeth a very good eye salve As for the description They are about 3. or 4. foot long and gaine their prey by leaping in spires on passengers though 20. cubits distant Dipsas Dipsas P. Neere Waters and salt Marishes in Africa and Arabia M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causon Situla Melanurus Ammoatis Dipsas Gal. T. Their poyson is very fiery in so much that those that are bitten by them are intollerably thirsty and drink till the belly breaketh other Symptomes are like those of the bitings of the Viper also the patient cannot make water vomit or sweate The signes of death following are great thirst and inflammation of the body so that the parts outwardly are dry as parchment The remedy is scarrification cauteries and section If in the extremity apply Triacle Tarre with Oile Hens dissected the leaves of purslain beaten in vineger barley meale bramble leaves pounded with honey also plantain hysop white garlick leeks rue and netles abstaining from sharp and salt meates and drinking oile to cause vomit and making clysters of the same some use the leaves and barke of laurell As for the description they are lesse than Vipers but kill sooner They are about a cubit long the fore part is thick the head small and they are smaller backwards and the taile very little and black and the other whitish with black and yellow spots Double-head Amphisbaena P. They are in the Isle Lemnos often in Lybia M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amphicaephalos Amphisilene Double-head Tops T. They are very venimous their wounds are very small and scarsly discernable but the accidents are inflammation and a lingring death c. Like to those of the bitings of Vipers so the cure Plin. And Coriander drunk and applied Grevin H. The dead Body passed over by childing Women causeth abortion V. An olive branch wrapped in the skinne helps numbnesse As for the description their Body is of equal magnitude Their eyes are usually shut the colour earthy And the skinne rough hard and spotted They are hot lay egges and carefully looke to the same They are soonest destroyed by vine branches and have an antipathy against humain nature Hereunto is the Scytal Scytale like in poyson cure and body and going but that it goeth one way onely Dragon Draco P. In India Africa Ethiopia and Hesperia M. Of Fruits Herbs and venimous creatures N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Thanin Chald. Darkon Dragon T. Some say that they hurt more by their biting striking with their tails than by their poyson The males bite deepest yet no great paine followeth upon the wound The cure is like that of the bitings of other beasts that are not venimous Hay-dust is good also the Barble or head of a Dog with Euphorbium V. The fat of a Dragon dryed in the Sun helps creeping ulcers and dim eyes with honey and oile The eyes with honey made into an ointment are thought to prevent night visions Magicians used them to cause victory The fatt driveth away venimous beasts some say that the Sanguis Draconis is made of the bloud hereof The tongue of the Sea Dragon is said to cause safety and the fatt with the herb-dragon helps the headach scab and leprosy Dryine Chelydrus P. They live and abide in the bottomes of Oakes M. They live upon Froggs and the like N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Druinae Querculus Ilicinus Cherisidal Dryine Tops T. Are very venimous and hot therefore they are placed among the first rank of Serpents The smell thereof so stopifying a man that it almost strangleth him nature refusing to breath rather than to draw in such a filthy aire When they hurt they cause the skinn to be loose stinking and rotten and the eyes to be blind and painful It restraineth the urine causeth neezing and maketh to vomit bloudy matter Being troad upon the foot looseth its skinn and the smell causeth all things to smell of the same so they kill both by touching and smelling When it hath wounded or bitten there is a black or red swelling about the sore and vehement paine over the whole body with pustuls madnesse drinesse thirst trembling and mortification thus for the signes The cure is like that of Vipers Also hartwort drunk in wine trefoile or the roots of daffodils and a cornes powdered and drunk As for the description they are about two cubits long full of skales under which breed yellow flies which destroy the same Their smell is like that of a wett Horse hide Their back is blackish the head broad and flat and their Captaine hath a white comb on the head They goe directly on the earth to avoid noise and smell H. Haemorrhe Haemorrhous P. They live in Aegypt and the Indies neere rocks M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Affodius Sabrine Halsordius HAemorrhe Tops T. Their bitings cause a continual bleeding sweat with extream paine till death and bloudy excrements The place bitten is black from which floweth first a watery humour then paine in the stomach and difficulty of breathing Lastly there is a dissolution of the powers of the body with a cramp after which followeth death thus of the signes The cure is by scarrification ustion sharp meats c. as in that of the Dipsas Also vine leaves bruised and sod with honey the powder of the head drunk garlick with the oile of flower-deluce and raisins of the sunne with plaisters used
body or loosening it neither strengthning nor weakening the stomach neither procuring nor hindering urin or sweat causing no alteration in the first qualities neither over-nourishing or extenuating the body but preserving it in such state as before and restoring little more than is daily decayed as the heifer calfe sheep lamb kid pig and coney As for the Temperature some are hot as the lamb hog pig in the first degree in the second the hare and roe-buck others are cold as the cow steere coney rabbet young hedg-hogs in the first degree some are moist us the wild boare c. in the first degree in the second the hedgbuck c. in the third young hogs and pigs others are dry as the oxe deere hare and coney in the second degree In respect of Taste some are sweet which agree well with nature being of a temperate heate and so fittest for nourishment they delight the stomach and liver fatten the body increase naturall heate fill the veines digest easily soften that which is two hard and thicken what is too liquid but if over sweet and gluttish they soone turne into choller stop the liver puffe up the lungs and spleen swell the stomach and often cause sharp feavers the bitter if exceeding doe not much nourish except first boiled or infused in many waters they otherwise engendring cholerick humours and burning bloud they kill worms open obstructions cleanse the body but nourish little or not at all and that which is is derived only to some speciall parts those made sharp dry the body exceedingly hurt the eyes and liver c. drawing down humours sending up vapours inflaming the blood fretting the guts and extinuating the whole body therefore they are to be tasted or fed upon their sharpnesse being allay'd with washing infusion oiling and intermixture of sweet things those made soure though they naturally offend sinewey parts weaken concoction coole naturall heat make loane and hasten old age yet they are profitable in cutting phlegme opening obstructions clensing impurities bridling choller resisting putrifaction extinguishing superfluous heat staying loathsomenesse of stomach and procuring appetite but if made soure without sharpnesse they strengthen the stomach bind and corrâ—borate the liver stay fluxes heale ulcers and give indifferent nourishment to them that eat them if made salt as such they nourish little or nothing but rather accidentally in procuring appetite strengthening the stomach giving it a touch of much heate for if very salt they engender choller dry up naturall moisture inflame blood stop the veines gather together viscous and crude humours harden the stone cause sharpnesse of urin and leannesse sc the accidentall salt not the naturall and inbred the fat if excessive glut the stomach decay appetite cause belchings loathing vomitings and scowrings choake the pores digest hardly and nourish little so if two dry and leane on the contrary it 's worse and nourisheth lesse but the mean is best the insipid are of weak nourishment yet extraordinarily they nourish some nourishment being according to the relish usually and the unsavoury nourish lesse and not speedily also what hath here been said of substance and taste agreeth also to birds fishes and other edibles As for the age the flesh of those that are young especially if newly brought forth is slimy soft moist and excrementitious especially when they are most moist by nature yet it is sooner concocted and makes the belly soluble the flesh of those that are old is hard dry nervous hard of digestion and of little and bad nourishment wainelings are lesse hard and dry than the one and more firme temperate and nourishing than the other but generally they are best for most complexions when they are almost come to their full growth both in height length and bignesse their temper being then best and so most agreeable to our naturall moisture being in a mean the same may be said of birds as of beasts In respect of sex the flesh of the males is more strong dry and heavy of digestion the females sweeter moister and of more easy concoction but the males are to be preferred being hotter dryer more laborious and lesse excrementitious when gelt as appeares in oxen and weathers when gelt they are more tender sweet and of an easier digestion as appeares in barrow hoggs they then being of a middle nature As for their feeding those that feed in moist and moorish places have moist flesh and full of superfluities but those that feed on dry places and mountaines are without excrements more easy of digestion and fit to nourish those that feed in good pastures are sweeter and more nourishing so those that feed upon sweet herbs also the flesh of wild beasts is lesse excrementitious and dryer than that of the tame so likewise of birds And as to the preparation beasts after they have been fatted with goood food as often as they desire it in a clean and spatious place and chased then killed in their season they either keep relinquish or alter their property by preparation here therefore it 's to be noted that flashy meate and naturally moist should be dressed with a dry heate as in baking broiling frying and rosting and meats naturally exceeding in arynesse and firmnesse should ever be boiled and the temperate may be used any way if crude it 's eaten only by the barbarians if rosted it yeeldeth a dry aliment and often retaineth the excrements if adust it 's worse if fryed with externall humidity it 's sweet by reason of its fat humidity but by reason it doth not conveniently emit its internall superfluity but rather imbibeth more of the redundant externall it 's hardly concocted nidorulent and torrifieth the bloud if seasoned with salt and spices it is yet dryer if boiled it's dryer within yet by reason of exteriour humidity it moistâ—neth and descendeth sooner but rosted meat hath more of it 's own proper and naturall moisture that of the boiled passing into the broth and therefore it nourisheth lesse except eaten with the broth yet boiled flesh is best for such as are yet growing and so of a hot temper as also for such as are sick of hot and dry diseases and that in hot and dry countries and seasons of the yeare but rosted meats are best for those who are of a cold and moist temper who are loose and subject to cold and moist diseases if stewed being equaly prepared it generateth good temperate and permeable juyce if seasoned it 's according to the cookery Note also that flesh engendreth better purer and more perfect bloud than fish for sound men is the best sustenance As for the Parts of beasts The musculous flesh is more hot by vivifick heate than in birds therefore they grow larger the head is edible sc of the cow calfe sow boar kid hare c. but of hard concoction thick and viscous juyce yet of much nourishment the tongue is loose fungous humid and glutinous therefore it yeeldeth not a solid
feed upon garbage carrion or cittie filth and the like are not so sweet wholsome and pleasant as they which feed themselves in seas and rivers they injoying the benefit of fresh aire agreable water and meat correspondent to their own nature In respect of place those that live in fennes being more muddy and lesse exercised are full of excrements most slimy unsavory last digested and soonest corrupted those of great lakes are better the pond-fish are soone fatted having much meat and little exercise but they are not so sweet as river fish except they have been kept in rivers to scoure themselves especially if kept in standing ponds not fed with continual springs nor refreshed with fresh waters those of rivers if troubled and defiled with the filth of great citties are bad for the stomach of grosse substance and of difficult excretion but those of clear waters are better than the lakish and they are best and most wholsome and light when they live in rocky sandy or gravelled rivers running northward or eastward and are best when swimming up highest but those that live in slow short and muddy rivers are excrementitious of corrupt juyce and of a bad smell and evil taste the marine living in seas agitated with the wind and boreal have very good flesh by reason of their exercise and purity of the wind and sea fish is not only the sweetest of all other but the least hurtful and though their substance be thicker and more fleshy yet it 's most light and easy of concoction and wholsome the salt water washing away the inward filth it 's lesse moist and clammy easier of concoction sooner turned into blood and every way fitter for mans body when the next continent is clean gravely sandy or rockey and northeast and not calme or muddy the pelagious living in the bottom of the sea are of a hard flesh hardly concocted but of much nourishment the littoral by exercise dissipating the excrements of their feeding are better than the former the saxatil are easily concocted of good juyce abstersive light and of little nourishment sc those that keep their place and feeding the wanderers by reason of their constant motion and beating of the waves have harder flesh the fossile have a hard and unpleasant flesh and sometimes have been so bad that all have dyed that have eate thereof the Amphibii living partly on the land partly in the water by reason of the variety of their meat and motion are hardly approved of also fishes of the same kind and species differ in their goodnesse according to the healthfulnesse of the place in which they live and some are better in the ocean than in the mediterranean and the contrary Note that be a fish well grown it sheweth it's heal thy if fat it 's young and new it 's sweet and keepeth but till the next day if fed in a muddy or filthy water it soon corrupting also sodden fish or broiled is presently to be eaten hot for kept cold in one day if without pickle or vineger it will corrupt and hurt the eater and if taken out of a pan it 's not to be covered with a platter least the congealed vapour drop thence and so cause vomiting scouring or corruption in the veines also before the eating of a fish dinner the body is not to be heated with exercise least the juyce too soone drawn by the liver corrupt the whole masse of blood neither is it to be sodden or eaten without salt pepper wine onions or hot spices all fish compared with flesh being cold and moist of little nourishment engendring watrish and thin blood though crabs skate cockles and oisters procure lust yet it 's not by great nourishment but by wind making sharp nature and tickling and such sperme is unfruitful furthermore those fish which are scaly and have a substance that crumbles easily are more wholsome than those that are without them being of a dryer substance but the other are more slimy moist and glutinous As for the Parts of fishes The head in some is edible as that of the mullet salmon umber and carp The tongue is tender and fat in the dolphin sweet in the carp and causeth venery â—he eyes in the salmon are tender and fat The barbs are counted delicate The neck and throat salted are pleasant and hardly vitiated The livers of the aselli are counted better than those of other fishes and that of the sheath-fish is so sweet that it causeth nauseousnesse that of the pike rosted and seasoned with the juyce of an orange is not inferiour to that of geese The sides of sturgians and lampreys are commended The bowells are commended in the scarus and are pleasant in the dolphin by their taste and smell The belly of the huso tasteth like hoggs flesh that of tunies is to be seasoned with salt vineger and fennel The lactes are commended in the huso and lamprey The abdomen in the tuny is fat and savorie The intestines are commended in the pike salmon asellus conger The ilia of the flounder are commended also The Ioines are counted good in the sphyraena The taile in the pike and tunie is desireable The skin of the tench is by some women preferred before the flesh The egges or spawn of perches broil'd of carps sod and fried of the pike salmon and huso seasoned are desireable but those of barbels cause pain in the belly As for medicine the crustaceous or testaceous are all of a saline and tartareous nature and yeeld excellent remedies to resolve the stone or tartar to help the strangury dysury ischury and difficulties and suppression of urin the collick passion and tartareous diseases of the lungs c. And outwardly they are used in dentifrices especially if burnt also they consolidate and dry chaps in the skin And all kinds of stones found in the heads of fishes powdred and drunk in wine help the collick and stone in the reines 4. Of Serpents there are few that are eaten or that eate them And as for medicine the body having the head and taile cut off and intrals cast away being flead well washed boiled with wine with aromatized broth is commended against the leprosy The fume provoketh the menses Boiled in oile with the flowers of cowslips it helps the gout The ashes helpe fistula's And as for the parts The eye applied is said to help epiphora's The heart bitten or applied helps the toothach The liver eaten is said to be prophylactick The gall helps bitings of mad dogs tasted caseth delivery and applied helps the hemorrhoids The blood makes red the lips applied cleanseth the skin and helps stinking of the gumms The fat with other things helps the french disease the palsey and gout boiled with may butter and strained and with bulls gall in pessaries it helps sterility The flesh cleanseth the skin and a dramme of the powder taken with syrup of honey helps the leprosy also it helps wounds and cut sinews The
and moist and the meridional watrish showry and sickly it 's altered also by the starrs meteors as fiery aereal aqueous or impure zones cardinal regions the oriental being moderately temperate and healthy the occidental sickly the meridional making moist and the septentrional dry by the parts of the world kingdoms and provinces cities and edifices particular constitution of places being pure in high moist in low mean in plain thin in the stony open in mountains cloudy in woods moist neere rivers sickly in fennes wholsome in marine places various neere baths that is to be shunned that is stinking and suddain mutations therein are not to be made the cold is to be altered with fire hangings or stoves the hot by cold water roses strewed water-lillies nettles willows and leaves of trees the moist by fire and aromatick fumes the dry by irrigation of waters and moistning herbs the pestilent with the fume of aromatick wood and frankincense those that are idle are to walk in the open aire and fields in the morning about mountains and fountaines and rivers in the evening Then as for Meat it is to be temperate and familiar acceptable and usuall sc the flesh of animals and fishes with bread well baked also simple or various yet not of a diverse substance or qualities at the same time that it may be concocted at the same time with the same heat and not being taken in too great a quantity and it 's convenient firm flesh thin blood sweet phlegme bitter gall and sourish melancholy being to be preserved but they must be well prepared orderly taken and no errour committed in quantity time order and manner of eating it 's necessary in sicknesse also if compound of which more particularly after And as for the Quantity of meat it is either full increasing flesh spirits and humours and is fit for those that are young growing strong lusty and able to endure much exercise or moderate repairing flesh spirits and humours lost and is fittest for persons of a midle health of an estate of body neither perfectly strong nor very weak or else thin lessening flesh spirits and humours for a time to preserve life and the strictest especially is to be used only where there are violent diseases caused by fulnesse or corruption where the sicknesse is abated by the substraction of sufficient food Also a man in health must never eat to satisfy but rise with a quick appetite If drowsy weary and heavy after eating being before nimble cheereful it 's a signe that accustomed measure is exceeded and that the quantity must be diminished till such inconveniences cease If after meals there be unfitnesse for the actions of the mind as study contemplation and other functions of the mind and body then the due proportion is exceeded If there be too much repletion there must be evacuation and that is known by pain and heavinesse of the head long and troubled sleeps troublesome dreams sleep in the day-time after meals lazinesse wearinesse pain in the whole body or any part thereof want of appetite crudities in the stomach sower belching binding of the belly frequent distillations stopping of the nose after supper with little excrement evacuated and much in the morning much spitting unusual abundance of wind and loosenesse If a change be to be made it must be by degrees till come to a proportion not offending the functions of the body or mind and several sorts of meat are to be shunned at the same time some being concocted sooner others more slowly and so there is an evil concoction The Quality of meats also is to be regarded there being like food like flesh like meat like nourishment And the temperate are best for all sorts of persons especially for those well tempered as flesh and bread of good juyce The quality is to be heeded it altering the constitution of the body That is to be used which is most agreeable to every ones particular nature age temperature distemperature and complexion Young hot strong and labouring men may eat hard grosse meats as beife bacon poudered flesh and fish hard cheese hard eggs and rye-bread c. which may be concocted by degrees and nourish slowly the lighter meats as veal lamb capons chickens partridges pheasants or plovers c. in them being too soon digested and turned into choller and milk is best for children tender flesh for such as grow and liquid meats for such as are sick of sharp diseases If the body be bound the diet must be moist and of boiled meats but dry if moist Sweet meats are bad for young children and men and for hot stomachs but help those that are old and cold The bitter engender choller burn blood and give no general nourishment to the whole Sharp spices hurt tender bodies but the strong may eat them with grosse meats Soure meats with sharp as citrons limons oranges and vineger hurt cold stomachs and sinewy parts but if cold and astringent as sorrel quinces services and medlars they help the stomach eaten last except subject to fluxes Those over-salted help those only that toile and labour causing inflammations and obstructions c. the Fatty are good only for cold and dry stomachs All meats are to be given very hot to cold raw stomacks They are to be contrary to the disease when sick that which is naturally or accidentaly loathed is not to be eaten greedily when hungry being turned into wind belchings vimitings and gripings A strong and good stomach may taste of all things but not feed on them as nourishments The Time of eating depends upon custome but that houre may be omitted if the appetite be not quick yet it 's most convenient to eat twice in the day The supper in some that are healthy and in the flower of youth ought to be equal or larger than the dinner but in others more sparing and the most seasonable hour of dining is about 2. or 3. houres before noon and it 's most wholsome as for break fasts in close places and times of sicknesse they are very necessary otherwise it 's best to fast till dinner where the air is clear and wholsome except growing or chollerick the meals are to be often for children and much little and often for old men labourers very often sc 4. or 5. times in a day if working hard and the time quantity and frequency may be altered by custom sicknesse and appetite c. The Order of aliments is this that thin meats liquid easy of concoction loosening and easily descending are to be first taken and the contrary last At the beginning of the meal some broth flesh or some what else actually hot is to be taken not drinking first but drink with meat is necessary without fluctuation the most nourishing meat is to be eaten first and the cold last if the stomach be hot the breakfast may be of liquid meats the dinner of moist and boiled and the supper chiefely of rosted meats As for
V. Seren. The ashes thereof as also of eggs or Snailes helpe the spitting of bloud from the breast Plin. The decoction as also of the Cuckow Swallows drunk helps the bitings of a mad dog The bloud with salt being dropped into the hornes of cattel keepeth them from the plague and mortality so Brunsfels The liquor distilled from the bloud helpeth against the plague MS. The fresh bloud mixed with Armenian earth saffron and tormentil being powdered and kept and taken in the quantity of a bean with the fourth part of a golden denarius filed preserveth from the plague also crowfoot or spearewort may be applied under the botch Car. Bovill The dry bloud being powdered doth wonderfully help the leprosy Bras The fat doth mightily mollify Silv. It is betwixt that of a Bull or Hogge so that of a Dogge or Catt being more thick than that of a Hogge and thinner than that of Bulls and some think them more heating and digesting than the other two Seren. It helpeth against feavers and too much heat of the body Aesculap Being applied it helps those that are feaverish Albert. It helpeth the paine of the reines Some also use it against the Nephritick paine stone and other aking parts Agric. Applied or used in a clyster it helpeth the paine of the reines Leonel The fat as also that of the Fox and wild Cat is used by some in arthritick remedies Farriers use it with Dogs grease to mollify contracted sinewes Aesculap The braine boiled with oile cureth all griefes Plin. The liver with water helpeth the stinking of the mouth Aesculap The testicles boiled with hony cause lust Albert. The biting is sometimes venomous feeding upon venomous creatures though Arnold thinks that the hurt is more by the biting than by the poyson as also of the Lynx and Cat c. Jonst The fat helpeth the rifts of the dugs Weck The oile helpeth contracted parts Car. Bovill The dry bloud helpeth the leprosy The same distilled with salt and the hornes of living creatures is used in the plague Lonicer distils it only in the dog dayes the D. is drach 2. Albert. The braine testicles tooth or left foot tyed to the arme helpes the memory which is frivolous The skinnes serve to make garments and dogs collers of As for its Description it may be omitted the beast being common The generation is like that of a Fox to which he is an enemy hee turning him out of doores by defiling his habitation He hath a thick skin tender nose and one foot shorter than the other They are either tame or wild doggish or porcine so Schrod Bear Vrsus P. In Germany Lithuania Polonia and Norway c. M. Of any thing also woodsorrel and wake robin N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Dob Arab. Dubbe Chald. Duba Bear Albert. T. is very cold moist and pituitous Rhas The flesh is mucous hard of concoction and not praise worthy Isaac Also very viscous and of very bad nutriment rather fit for Physick than food H. It hurteth the liver and spleen engendreth many excrements and causeth nauseousnesse so Platin. The flesh boiled when they lye hid and kept increaseth so Theoph. The fore-feet are very sweet and pleasant being in motion and are a dish for the Gentry so Her in Germany Also the fore feet being salted and hung in the chimney and eaten are very pleasant V. Plin. Bears bloud discusseth apostumes in any part of the body Gal. and concocteth abscesses as also that of Goats The bloud helpeth hairs that grow in the eyes The fat is used in stead of the foxes Sylv. Of fats the Lyons is the hottest and dryest next that of the Pardal then the Bears and after the Bulls The later Physitians mixe Bears fat in Medicines that help convulsions and resolutions and acopons Marcel It taketh away spots and blewnesse Plin. With Lilly roots it helps burning so also used with Wax It mollifieth and suppurateth hard tumours Plin. It helpeth the pain of the loines and whatsoever hath need of emollition It helpeth the erysipelas especially that of the reins this as also that of the Foxe or Bull with vine Ashes and boiled with lie doth attennuate all high tumours a sope also is thus made serving for the same purpose With red lead it cureth ulcers in the leggs Marcel So with Alumme Plin. Also kibes and clefts in the feet Diosc It helps Chilblaines Rhas The fine powder of the spleen of an asse with Bears grease and Oile mixed to the thicknes of Honey causeth hair to grow on the eye browes Diosc Avic Bears grease helps the alopecia so with the burned head of an hare and vineger Gal. Also with the ashes of a mouse or used after rubbing with figge leaves or with the ashes of an hedghog Rhas So with the gall and a little pepper Plin. Marcel Seren. Also with oake balls Plin. Or wild roses Gal. Or ashes of the root of a reed Marcel or with ashes of barley the part being first rubbed with a sharp Onion Sext. With ladanum and old wine it helpeth the falling off of the hair and maketh it more thick So Marcel Plin. So with Maidenhair or the sout of Lamps with wine it helpeth scurfe and with the ashes of a Lizard it helps the alopecia and with the oile of Myrtle Plin. So with salt and a stamped Onion also it is used in diverse other prescripts used by Galen in his composition of remidies Sec. Loc. Marcel The grease with that of a Bull and wax an Is very good against swellings behind the eares Plin. Also some adde hypocystis Seâ—en also it helpeth the pain of the jawes Plin. and neck as also flatulencies caused by crude phlegme and the pain of the back and loines Marcel so with the stamped root of gladiol and live brimstone Plin. applied with nettle seed and old oile it helpes diseases of the joynts and gout Marcel So with that of a Bull and Wax an Plin. to which some adde hypocistis and galls Heraclid The ashes of the haires of the Beare mixed with their grease helpe the alopecia Soran. with the leaves and roots of reeds burned the burned haires of the Asse Maidenhair tarre the hair of Goats burned the rosin of Cedar and Bears grease an mixed and applied may the alopecia be cured Aet The skinne is useful to those that are bitten by a mad Dogg or that of a Sea Calfe Plin. The brain is poysonsome so that of a Cat. Rhas The left eye of a Bear dryed and hanged about the necks of Children preventeth the fears in their sleepe Aesculap The eye bound to the left arme of a Man helpeth the quartan ague Diosc The Lungs of a Hogg lamb or Bear applied defend gallings by the shoos from inflammation which Gal. affirmeth of the two former Physiol the gall of a Bear seperated from the liver and dryed may be kept two years Diosc it 's lesse effectuall though serving for the same purposes than the Bulls or Goats so Gal. Seren. Bears
roses an especially that of the Bull with the juyce of leekes or with honey if there be suppuration It helps the paine and vices of the eares and stench thereof being warmed in the pill or rind of a pomegranate so Plin. Avic The gall anointed on the pallate serveth as an apophlegmatisme drawing flegme from the head Some use a linnen girdle about their midles dipped into the gall using it three dayes against the jaundise renewing it every day Hipp. in lib. de nat Mul. Maketh a remedy thereof to cause conception in women Plin. Mixed with oile of roses and turpentine and so applied with wool it openeth the hardened womb Rhas Mixed with wine the flesh of a Gourd and honey and so anointed on the fundament it looseneth the belly Avic It openeth the hemorrhoids Gal. Especially that of the Bull. Applied it helpeth the piles Gal. It helps malignant and eating ulcers especially in the leggs called lupus being applied as a cataplasme with the juyce of carline thistle and the greater celandine an Plin. The Spleen eaten with honey and applied helpeth the paine of the spleen and running ulcers with honey It may also be drunk in wine against the spleen The cleaning applied helps ulcers in the face Plin. Twenty heads of garlick being bruised with vineger and put into the bladder of a Cow and applied help the paine of the spleen Marcellus addeth verdigrease and mustard seed To help the collick apply a hot brick to the feet wrapped in a cloth the patient being in bed then put some Goats milk into a Cows bladder apply it very hot to the navil to cause sweat and that the belly may not be stopped give the patient a little oile to drink warme Afric The foame applied keepeth flies from them The urine of an Oxe with the ashes of the tamariske tree drunk or taken with meat resisteth venery Used as a bath it helps the coldnesse of the stomach and hemorrhoids so Hal. That of Heifers used as a gargarisme helpeth ulcers in the mouth among souldiers that are infectious called die brune That of a Cow is good against wounds made by fire Their suppurations are better cured by Surgery than Medicine also their urine is good for the cavity used hot So Columella Plin. It helps bees fluxes caused by tasting of the flowers of the cornel tree so that of man Gal. The dung of living creatures is very digestive but that of man by reason of its extraordinary stinck is not much used that of the Cow Goat and certaine other creatures being without much smell is much used That of the Cow is of a drying faculty and drawing as appeareth when it is applied to the stingings of Bees or wasps notwithstanding it may help also by the property of its substance Some have cured the dropsy therewith plaistering the patient therewith and setting him to dry in the sunne That when they goe to grasse when moist helps phlegmons in rustick bodies being applied That when they feed on chaffe is in a mediocrity as to the other and they are fittest for the most rustick bodies sc against the kings evil and all scirrhous tumours applied with vineger as a cataplasme so Gal. Plin. Being heated it may be applied where there is need of breaking or that of Goats being boiled in vineger or wine Avic Gal. Applied with vineger it helps all tumours hot abscesses Plin. Applied it helpeth S. Anthonies fire so that of a Calfe also Applied fresh it helpeth the inflammation in wounds Diosc Applied with vineger it helps hardnesses and botches Plin. With honey it prevents swellings in greē wounds Some say that it will asswage any swelling with barley meale so that of Goats The same in May being dry with egge shells and the soles of old shoos powdered and cast on the wound or ulcers helps those in the leggs that are old also Cats tailes may be added for exiccation Rhas The dung blown up into the nostrils Stoppeth their bleeding some adde vineger for the same purpose Haly commends the ashes thereof Rhas Being wrapped up in a leafe and heated in the ashes it helps the swellings of the veines Avic Also it helps swellings behind the eares Plin. Being boiled warme with vineger it discusseth botches or wens Marcel The ashes mixed with bete help the scurfe of the head Plin. The fume taken helps the phthisick Avic It is used also in diseases of the lungs and its tabes c. Rhas Drunk or used in a clyster it helps the flux caused by the ulcers of the intestines The distilled water thereof drunk helps the yellow jaundise Marcel The liquor thereof strained when fresh being drunk helpeth the collick Some adde ginger cloves mace and cinamon Gal. Three spoonfuls of the dry dung burned and drunk help the dropsy so Rhas Some also observe the sex The dry with vineger and water mixed and applied as a cataplasme to the belly helps the dropsy so Rhas So that of a Calfe Diosc The fomentation therewith helps the sciatica so Plin. Marcel and Avic it being applied And the gout when fresh and hot Plin. Diosc The fume of that of a Bull helps the falling of the matrix Hippocrates addeth other things thereto Plin. The water of which they have drunk helpeth the paines of the head Hartm in Chymiat The extract of the spleen helps the suppression of the menses Prosp Alp. In Egypt some women take the gall nine dayes in baths to cause them to be fat Jonst Vital de furn The butter T. Is naturally hot and moist with the prevalency of heat viscous and unctuous V. The same eaten often moisteneth the stomack looseneth the belly lenifieth the brest and helpeth it as also ulcers thereof and of the intestines especially when fresh it is good also to lenify the lungs and cure its impostumes it having a property to maturate dissipate and cleanse all humours and superfluities of the brest especially eaten with honey and sugar It resisteth poyson moisteneth the body mollifieth and helpeth the roughnesse of the eyes dissolveth and ripeneth impostumes mitigateth the wounds of the brest lungs and gripings of the intestines And mollifieth and looseneth contracted nerves It is very good against inward poysons being drunk with warme milk in a great quantity it obstructing the passages by its fatnesse that the poyson cannot get to the heart The best is the freshest Cheese helps the dysentery Hipp. and 3d species of the tabes Donat. ab Alto mar A suppository thereof anointed with honey helps the ascarides in children The whey doth extenuate thick humours cleanse and loosen the belly Therefore the antients did often use it for the same purpose especially in those which they would purge without acrimony sc The melancholick epileptick leprous and against the elephantiasis and breeking out of pushes in the body The urine of an Oxe having amber quenched therein helpeth impotency The fume of the bloud with S. Katharines flower helpeth the hemicrania Their hornes serve to make lanthorns
testicles help the swellings behind the eares and discusse wens Sext. They help the groin often rubbed therewith Gal. A spoonfull of the powder drunk helpeth the erection of the genital Montagnana mixeth them with a remedy to cause venery in men and conception in Women but this may rather be attributed to the Satyrion called Foxstones which serve also against the tetanos Rhas Two of them taken by a Woman cause conception Sext. The taile woorn on the arme causeth venery Marcel The dung stamped with vineger and applied helpeth the Leprosy Rhas With Oile of Roses applied on the genital it increaseth the strength of salacity so used in a pessary by Women so Gal. Or applied to the privities of either with Cows tallow Schrod The Lungs consolidate and cleanse The liver helpeth the Hepatick The bloud applied to the abdomen groin and reins helpeth the stone The ashes of the flesh help the vices of the brest Jonston mentioneth not any thing but what hath been already related As for the description it is needlesse They generate lying on the ground copulate sometimes with Dogs bring forth 4. or 5. young ones blind which they then lick They are frends to the Serpent and enemies to wild Rue the Kite Vultur Eagle as also to the Crow Badgers which they drive out of their hoales by defiling them with their excremēts They imitate the Dog by houling barking They are very subtile and keep diverse hoals open When troubled with fleas they gently sink down in the water having a little Hay or some other thing on their backs for them to crepe to They kill urchins by injecting their urine into their mouthes They seem to play with the hares and so suddainly catch them when hungry they tumble themselves in red earth and so lie as if dead with their tongues out and when the birds of prey come to feed on them they suddainly take them Being taken by the foot they will bite it off to escape and if they cannot they will seem dead Comming into a Henroost they will shake their tails to affright them and when off their pertches they each them When hunted they will run up into a Tree where often they show much sport and when constrained to leap down they fall on the best Dogs to wound them or be killed by them Their differences are according to magnitude and colour being either back white or crossed hither may the Indian Foxes also be reduced of which c. See the Appendix of unusuall exoticks Frog Ranunculus vir P. Almost every where in woods and among reeds M. Of the Leaves of Trees bushes and reeds N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Calamites Agredula Isid Frog of the Land Jonst T. the green Frog is sometimes eaten V. It helpeth many diseases Pliny saith that it helps the cough the mouth being spitten in Sylv. Held in the hand it taketh away the heat of feavers Guainerius feedeth Hens with their flesh boiled made into a pap with Barly meale which then serve for those that are hectick Timotheus applied them dissected to the reins of those that are Hydropick to bring forth the water Plin. The Liver tied in the skin of a Crane causeth venery The fat applied to an aking tooth breaketh it The bloud hinders the grouth of hair after evulsion It is of the same vertue as the water Frog The bloud is a Philtron Weikard the ashes stop bleeding in wounds G. Goat Capra P. In Wales Africa Sardinia Spain c. M. Of the Arbute-tree Evergreen privet Oake c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Ez. Arab. Dakh GOat Gal. T. the flesh is lesse dry than beef yet much exceedeth mans temper The Kids is of easier digestion The Goats is sharp and of ill juyce but is best in spring and sommer feeding then on shrubs The older they are the worse it is of much nourishment strong juyce clammy and so lasteth long but of hard concoction and generateth melancholick diseases it hath all the evil proporties of beef and is more flatulent causing belchings and choller H. it is bad for Women that have ulcers in the Womb so that of Hogs and beef so Hipp. Rhasis connteth it more cooling than Motton and of little nourishment The milk doth but little trouble the belly feeding on astringent food so its good for the stomach so Diosc The most nourishing is Womans milk then Goats hence happily arose the fable of Jupiters being nourished thereby Gal. It is nothing neer so fat as Cows milk If the Goat feed on scammonie or spurge the milk will loosen the belly It is moderate in respect of other milks being not very fat or thick so in a mean It is not good to be taken without Honey it usually curdling otherwise and causeth griefes some also adde water or salt so Gal. The milk of Women is most temperate then the Goats Asses Sheeps and lastly the Cows so Aeg. the Goats is temperate in substance lesse purging than the Cows otherwise good enough and not a little nutritive next is the Sheeps and lastly the Cows So Bapt. Fier Mant. Var. Of all liquid things that man useth Milk is the most nourishing and so first the Sheeps then the Goats the most purging is the Mares 2. The Asses 3. The Cows and lastly the Goats Cheeses most nourishing are the Cowes and of difficult descent next the Sheeps and the Goats of least yet easily descend V. Gesn The Goat yeeldeth a multitude of remedies which is to be wondered at some affirming that they are feverish Plin. The decoction thereof with the skinne and the Frog called rubeta helps the diseases of all fourefooted Beasts Magicians use the right eye taken from a living greene lizard with the head cut off afterwards which applied in the skinne of a Goat helpeth against quartains Marcel The ashes of a Goats skinne applied with Oile helpe kibes Plin. The same help gallings by shooes Marcel The scrapings of the skinne pounded with Pumice stone and mixed with vineger help pushes Also a thong of the skinne tied about the Dugges of a Woman helps the bleeding of a Womans nostrills Plin. The decoction thereof boiled with the haire stoppeth the belly Aesculap The ashes of the haires stop all fluxes Sext. mixed with vineger they stop bleeding at the nostrills Marcel So with pitch and vineger Sext. and the Lethargy being put into the nostrils Plin. The dung in mulse expelleth the stone so the ashes of the haires The stinck of the Hornes or haires helpeth the Lethargy Marcel The ashes drunk help the strangury Plin. The haires or horne burned drive away Serpents and help their wounds being drunk or applied Plin. Magicians use the flesh rosted at the fire wherein a mans body is burned against the falling sicknesse so Sext. Plin. The Sanies or matter of a Goats liver rosted helps the dimnesse of sight or the gall thereof the flesh being eaten and the eyes held over the steme whilest boiled Plin. The Grecians used
the broth against cantharides As for the bloud see that of Bulls Marcel Applied it taketh away spots Diosc Drunk it helpeth against Toxicum being drunk with Wine Aesculap Drunk it resisteth poyson Plin. So decoct with marrow Some mixe it with earth of Lemnos Diosc commendeth that of kids also used in antidotes Sext. Drunk it helpeth humours or fluxes of the belly as some say though Pliny affirmeth it looseneth the belly as also the marrow and Liver which is denyed by Diosc and Gal. Who affirme it helpeth the paines of the belly also Some give it with Hony against the Dropsy it being of thick terrene essence and dry with heat Plin. Boiled with the marrow it helpeth the dysentery With Barly meale and Rosin spread upon the belly it helpeth the paines thereof Marcel With the branne of meale it stoppeth the dysentery Marcel It breaketh the stone with Barly meale it helpeth all vices of the fundament Dios The fat is astringent and therefore helpeth the dysentery and mordacity in the strait gut and Colon being of a thick substance Gal. That of Kids is lesse hot and dry and that of shee Goats than of the Masculine or male Goat Rhas It is more astringent than that of Cows Diosc It helpeth those that have drunk Cantharides Plin. Applied with Wax it helpeth the wounds of Serpents Aesculap It helps all bitings and hurts Columel For the most part griefs of the Body if without wounds are helped by fomentations the old by cauteries butter or Goats fat being dropped in sc in Cattel Plin. It helpeth Kibes with Lime it discusseth Wens so Marcel Plin. With Sandaracha it helps rough nailes so Sext. Plin. Applied to Ringwormes with Cantharides and the juyce of the grapes of the wild vine it helpeth them with Wax it helpeth creeping ulcers so with pitch and brimstone with Honey and the juyce of the bramble it helpeth running ulcers of the privities Applied with salt it helpeth whitelows or fellons and if there be paine with Oile so that of a Cow Aesculap With Roses it helpeth night wheales The same dropped into the eares helps deafenesse Plin. The meale of spelt in red Wine helpeth the stingings of Scorpions applied warme and the cough with Goats fat or butter Diosc The broth of the fat decoct helpeth the phthisick being drunk So with the pulp of Alica and the cough or with new mulse Marcel Decoct with Ptisan it helpeth the tormina in the declination Diosc With Barly meale rhöe cheese it is given against the dysentery may be injected with the juyce of Ptisan Plin. Drunk with any liquour it mightily helpeth the intestines or being drunk in cold Water Sextus commends the same against the Dropsy which is not probable Marcel The fat of the reines mixed with Barley bran Cumin Anet and Vineger an and so decoct in water strained and drunk doth speedily help the dysentery Plin. Applied with pellitory and Cyprus Wax it helpeth the Gout So with the dung and a little Saffron boiled Diosc As for the Marrow It hath the 4th place amongst Marrows sc after the Harts Calves and Bulls the last is the sheeps See that of Calfe Plin. The bloud of a Goat boiled with the Marrow helpeth against poysons that doe intoxicate the same helpeth the Dysentery and Dropsy The bloud Marrow or Liver looseneth the belly but others rather affirme the contrary all marrows having a gentle drying and emplastick faculty for the most part therefore that of the Goat may be used against the Dysentery The right Horne of a Goat is used in Mesue his Athanasia magna and antidotes of Serapio Haly and Avicen The fume thereof as also of the haire driveth away Serpents and the ashes drunk or applied help the wounds so Plin. Sextus so the powder and milk with organy and Wine Plin. The ashes anointed with Oile of Myrtles hinder sweating With Vineger they stop bleeding so that of the dung Sext. The crusts thereof made by burning it in the flame stamped with vineger of squills mightily help St. Anthonies fire The Horne laid under the head of a sick party causeth sleep Mixed with branne and Oile of Myrtles it helpeth the falling off of the haire and causeth it to grow Plin. So the ashes with nitre the seed of tamarisk butter and Oile the head being shaved first the smell thereof when burned discovereth the falling sicknesse so Sext. Plin. The same awaketh those that have the Lethargy so that of the haires Gal. The ashes whiten the teeth and fasten the gummes so those of the Harts so Rhas Albert and Avic Sext. The shavings mixed with Honey stop the flux of the belly Plin. The fume helpeth the Womb to which some adde Galls Lard and Rosin of Cedar Pallad The hoofes burned drive away Serpents Diosc Rhas The ashes thereof with vineger help the alopecia so Gal. Aesculapius useth them with tarre Plin. The juyce of the head boiled with the haire helpeth the rupture of the intestines The ashes of the huckle bones serve as a dentifrice as also those of almost all hairy creatures Plin. Magicians use the braine drawn through a gold ring giving it to children before they suck against the falling sicknesse and other diseases Aesculap with honey it helpeth carbuncles in the belly Sext. The water comming from the pallat mixed with honey and salt rubbed on the head c. killeth lice helpeth the paine of the belly and looseneth the same Plin The broth of the paunch gargled helpeth the exulceration of the tongue and arteries which some understand of that of the Cow Gal. The liver rosted helpeth the nyctalops and discovereth the falling sicknesse causing a convulsion so that of a hee Goat Diosc Being eaten it helpeth the former evils so also the vapour thereof Rhas some boile it with water and salt Plin. When rosted it helpeth the coeliack especially that of the hee Goat boiled with Austere wine and drunk or applied with oile of myrtles to the navil some adde rue to the same Marcel Some boile it with old wine Hippoc. Being rosted in ashes and eaten for foure dayes drinking old wine it helpeth the inflation of women delivered Plin. The gall used three dayes the haire being pulled up is a psilothron Marcel It helpeth botches With the ashes of alum it cureth the scab Applied it helps the elephantiasis With fullers earth and vineger it helpeth scurfe Seren with honey it helps the dimnesse of the eyes so Sext Diosc that of a wild Goat with a third part of white hellebore helps the glaucoma and cicatrices white spots in the eyes dimnesse of sight the weft argema With Womens milk it helpeth broken tunicles Applied to the eye brows it taketh away haire so Albert. Marcel With honey an scrup 1 put into the eare stopping it after with wool it helpeth the eares though cancerd Plin. With the ashes of a Serpents skinn it helpeth purulent eares With the leaves of leekes or a like quantity of wine it helpeth the vices of
luxations and discusseth tumours Plin. Boiled in vineger it discusseth wens Gal. It helps old buboes Plin. Boiled in wine or vineger it ripeneth what is to be broken Diosc Boiled in vineger and applied it helps creeping ulcers S. Anthonies fire and swellings behind the eares Sext. Mixed with honey and applied it helps cancers as also carbuncles which arise in the belly Marcel Warmed in vineger and applied it helps all ulcers of the leggs the butter of Cows being after added with oile of cypresse or bayes Plin. Applied with wine it draws out thorns c. out of the body With the rose cerot it being burnt bringeth the burnings of ulcers to a cicatrice Plin. With honey it helps luxations With old wine it helps broken ribs and after apertion and extraction cureth the same Boiled with vineger and honey it helps the paine of the nerves or putrefaction of the same Sext. With vineger it helps the diseases of the joynts so with Barley meale and Vineger in rustick Bodies With Honey it helps swellings behind the eares so Sext. and with Vineger it helps the contractions of the nerves so Marcel and tremblings Diosc Burned and applied with vineger or Oxymel it helps the alopecia so Rhas and Gal. Paul Plin. So with Honey Marcel 7. pills thereof with vineger applied to the fore head help the headach Plin. Marcel Applied to the neck with bulbs it helps the opisthotonos Marcel Sprinkled with strong Wine stamped applied and bound to the eyes it helps all paines and swellings thereof Plin. Applied with Honey it helps the warring of the eyes Diosc Applied with vineger it helps swellings behind the eares and applied with axungia also drunk in Wine it helps the jaundise Plin. Boiled with Honey and used to the belly it helps the coeliack Sext. and the collick Marcel And strained in water with mulse and pepper taken for 3. dayes Gal. Many use it against hard tumours of the Spleen and Dropsy Marcel Being powdered and drunk with Honey and drunk in hot water it killeth Worms Plin. In mulse it helpeth the stone Anon. The dry balls powdered and drunk in sack evacuate phlegme and help the cough With barly meale and vineger it helps the sciatica in rustick bodies so with axungia Some adde saffron mustard seed stalks of ivy flowers of the wild cucumber and pellitory of the wall Drunk with spikenard it provoks the menses and bringeth forth the birth powdered applied in wool with frankincense it stops the flux of women and other fluxes of bloud with vineger so Diosc With the haires of a Hare and fat of a Sea Calf to which some adde the scrapings of cedar used as a fume it bringeth forth the menses and secundine Plin. The urine of a Goat drunk helps the great flux of women the dung being applied Drunk with the vineger of squils it helps the stingings of Serpents Applied with wool it discusseth apostumes Marcel Put into the eares it helps the opisthotonos so Dios It helps the paines thereof Sext. So with mulse Plin. With Cows gall it helps the difficulty of hearing With the fume it helps swellings behind the eares Diosc With spicknard it helps the dropsy That of the mountain Goat helps the difficulty of urine and the stone taken warm with wine and water Sext. It provoketh the termes in women The description may be omitted they being common Jonst They are very venereous and generate when seven months old They goe five months and usually bring forth one young one They are frends to the Sheep Tiger Penny royal and Sea holly and enemies to the Woolf Pardal Elephant Schrich owle mans spittle honey spindletree the vine and fleabane Their noise is like that of the Sheep they feed in rough places They so hang on rocks that they seeme to stick to the same sc the Rock Goat Gulion Gulo P. In Lithuania Muscovia and the North parts M. Of any dead carkases N. Vultur quadrupes Scalig. Boophagos Crol Gulion Tops T.V. Their skinnes only are in use being white spotted changeably interlined like diverse flowers therefore the greatest Princes and richest Nobles use them in garments in the winter time sc the Kings of Polonia Sweeveland Goatland and the Princes of Germany also it soonest taketh a colour of all skinnes and retaineth it longest The outward appearance of the saide skinne is like a damaske garment Some think he is generated of a Woolf and a dogge he eats all the prey before he departs and emptieth the belly betwixt two trees till he hath done H. Hare Lepus P. In England Lybia and other places M. Of grasse corne and the like N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Arnebet Arab. Ernab HAre Gal. T. The flesh begetteth thick bloud but it 's of better juyce than beef or mutton It 's good to be used in a drying diet Celf. It 's of a mean and good juyce it bindeth the belly and provoketh urine Isaac Though grosse and dry yet it 's better than that of Goats Anon. It 's hot and dry and rosted helps the ulcers of the intestines It is good for old men and those of a cold temper Hal. It 's hot and dry 2° it 's best when taken by hunting in the winter and in cold countries It is good for those that are too corpulent and causeth watching It ought to be dressed with attenuating spices Some also count it cold and dry the former of which is conjectured from their timidity The way of dressing them may be seen in Platina and Apicius Gesn Plin. V. The ashes of a Hare with oile of myrtles helpe the paine of the head Pounded with honey it helps the enterocele Rhas Albert. The ashes help the stone The ashes of the bloud and skinne burnt in a pot and a spooneful thereof drunk fasting in warme water doe presently help the same So Sext. Those of the Hare helpe pissing of bloud also Hereof Nic. Alexandrinus maketh an antidote for the same purpose and Montagnana an electuary R. Mos A Coat of the skinne strengthens the body of young and old men The skinne wrapped about a horse foot that hath a tread helpeth the same being let bloud in the pasterne Marcel The bloud of a Hare applied warme helpeth spots in the face caused by the sun it being after a little while washed off using oile after it so Cels Vrsin It produceth haire beautifieth the skinne and easeth the gout Some use the ashes of the head or belly burned with the intestines against the falling off of the haire Some use the bloud against their growth the haires being first eradicated Diosc It helps the dysentery and fluxes being fried and eaten drunk in wine it helps against poyson Avic Fried it helps the Apostumes of the intestines Marcel When fresh boiled with barley meale and taken it helps the dysentery and flux of the belly so the curd Avic The flesh rosted helps the ulcers of the intestines Rhas Albert. It dryeth and therefore helps the paines of the intestines
drunk in wine doe the same Ornithol The fume of egges made by a fire hot brick causeth the menses but the contrary is more probable Plin. The yolks of raw egges applied with oile and wine help inflations of the womb Hipp. The fat of a Cock anointed an a suppository of nitre and rosin bringeth forth the dead Child Kiran. So the heart of a Hen applied to the hip Plin. or egges drunk in wine with Anet Rue and Cuminseed Myrepf A crude egge drunk with warme water expelleth the secundine The powder of egge shells applied helps the falling down of the matrix As for the externall use Plin. The white of an egge with Amylum helps St. Anthonies fire so with oile applying beete leaves so Seren. Gal. A raw egge applied presently helpeth burnings it moderately cooling and drying without biting some adde barley meale and a little salt Ornithol So the yolk with oile of roses Arnold The oile of egges helps the paine thereof The fame helps the itch or the destilled water thereof Galen for the same purpose mixeth egges with other things Sext. The red dung of a Cock breaketh fellons and easeth the paine So Plin. With vineger The white of egges with white frankincense applied helps broken bones Myrepsus useth egges in his Medicine against eminencies Plin. Mixed with Sow-bread they help moist ulcers in the head Ornithol the powder of egge shells and of the soles of old shooes with Cows dung stamped dryeth up old ulcers in the legges Arnold The oile of egges help fistula's and melancholick ulcers Avic egges with oile of roses help impostumes of the fundament they are used in plaisters also and in clysters against ulcers apostumes and the crysipelas with oile Pet. Apon Egges help the increasing of tumours Rhas The greene dung of a Cock applied plaister-wise with the yolk of an egge and a little saffron openeth any porulent abscesse Ornithol The skinne of the ventricle of a Capon powdered is good in mortified fistula's The whites of egges purge wounds and constringe what is laxe Plin. The powder of the shells helps all eruptions of bloud The liquour of the whites distilled helps cicatrices and other spots being often used so the oile of egges The egge used to the head and afterwards using water or the juyce of Sowbread killeth nits Plin. The fresh dung helps the alopecia Kiranides and Rhases use it with vineger after rubbing with an onion Oile of egges causeth the haires to grow The gall of a Cock helps the weakenesse of the eyes sharpning the sight and helping the spots thereof especially with the juyce of celondine and honey Gal. An egge steeped in vineger dissected and applied to the eyes causeth sleeping Constant The white injected into the eyes helpeth the prickings thereof as also all their heat and itchings Diosc The white of an egge applied to the forehead with frankincense stops and diverts defluxions Plin. So with womans milk and wool It helps the Epiphora also some use it with saffron or with snailes Diosc The white injected into the eyes helps the inflammations thereof Gal. So those of the eyebrows eares Dugges and nervous parts the whole being used With milk and oile of roses it helps phlegmons of the eyes The chymicall liquour of the whites cooleth the eyes strengthens them and is usefull in ocular remedies Gal. Plin. The white helps lippitude The gall helps suffusions especially with honey and the juyce of fennel rue eye bright swallow-wort or vervaine Some say the dung of a white Cock with hony and vineger injected into the eyes stops the weeping thereof Archig Gal. The white helps bloudy and bruised eyes so the yolk some adde honey so used with Wine Marcel The gall with honey helps darknesse Constant The bloud of a Cock also helps the eyes The fat injected helps the vices of the eares if stopped by water or are purulent as also if of difficult hearing Kiran With spikenard it helps the paines of the eares and passions of the nerves being hotter and dryer than that of Swine Avic The yolk of an egge helps hot impostums in the eare and the oile helps the paine thereof and openeth the same though Galen saith the white easeth paine To which if there be inflammation he addeth opium and Womans milk so the pellicle of the ventricle with wine and opium The fat of a Hen helps the asperity of the tongue The oile of egges with Goose grease helps the toothach Plin. The powder of egge shells serveth as a dentifrice Aeg. Hens fat mollifieth the gums and facilitats the breeding of teeth in Children Kiran. So the braine Marcel Plin. The fat helps the chaps of the lips Ornithol An egge applied with a linnen cloath and wine helps tumours of the Duggs Gal. The broth of a Hen or Kid helps the inflammations of the tonsills and quinsies so with other things in Eupor Kiran. A crude egge helps the ruptures and inflammations of the fundament Diosc Plin. So the yolk Diosc The fat helps the paine of the matrix and impostume of the same Avic A pessary made of the white with the oile of Alcanna helps ulcers of the womb The bath and fume from a Hen stuffed with wormewood helps the gout Marcel Plin. So the dung applied fresh Aetius used egges also in his podagrick cerot Kiran. The liver of a Hen applied with barley meale doth the same Marcel The ashes of the dung applied with oile help ulcers of the feet with oile and Nitre it helpeth cornes Thus of the outward and inward remedies hereof Furthermore Aet The broth of a young Cockrell after vomiting helps against poyson and that the white yolk will shew in the urine Diosc Eggs drunk with oile help against aconite Nicand The broth of a fat Hen helps against dorycnium The dung helps against Frogstooles with wine and vineger or oxymel So Aet Plin. and Rond The D. is Drach 1. or 2. The same helps against the bitings of a mad Dog Aet or of a Cat. The Body dissected helps the bitings of Serpents or of other venemous beasts so Gal. So the braine drunk with a little pepper Kiran. The bloud of a Cock helps those that have drunk the Sea Hare Plin. Egges applied with cresses help the wounds of Serpents The braine drunk with Pepper helps the bitings of the Phalangia so Rhas The gall also helps against venimous bitings and wounds as of the Scorpion the fish called Callionimus Sea Tortise and Hyena The rumps of live Cocks being successively applied help Buboes in the plague Hens fed with vipers help the Elephantiasis The dung helps plague botches A Cock dissected applied helps the Phrensie Some cast the dung into the nostrills of Horses against their phlegme Having egges given to them steeped in vineger they recover from their cough after using Fenigreek Prisan cremor and Honey Absyrt Hier. The dung used in a clyster with Wine and Nitre helps their Iliack passion and inflation of the belly using Cows dung by the mouth Anatol. The
way used Ryff So the liquour used with a linnen cloath the holy fire The powder of the egges helps white spots in the eyes Some use the parts dissected to weake joynts others against the nyctilops cardiack passion melancholy of a cold cause and canker in the yard Kiran. The heart with ivy helps the dysury Schrod The powder helps the Epilepsy so the water Q. Quaile Coturnix P. Almost every where in England and Holand c. M. Of Millet Wheat and other Fruits N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Schelau Arab. Salui Currelius QUaile Aldrov T. the flesh being eaten often and largly of they generate grosse pituitous and viscid humours fit for the generating of Epilepsies spasmes c. But if eaten moderately it begets good bloud but such as is apt to putrify if very fat They are most wholesome and best tasted when rosted Manard Muff. In the spring and summer they cause melancholy in Autumne and winter they are too moist they are of small nourishment causing loathing of meat and corruption thereof Muff. Yet when young they are counted a good and dainty diet V. The brain with the myrtle ointment used to the face helps the Epilepsy Kiran. The egges drunk cause lust Kuefn So the fat with hellebore Aetius useth it in pessaries to cause conception Gesn With myrrhe white vitriol and honey it helps the eyes Schrod The dung helps the Epilepsy or falling sicknesse The description is needlesse Jonst They are salacious like the Partridg and breed 4 times in a yeare They fly but little but runne fast their voice is known They love not the Pelican Their chiefe disease is the Epilepsy R. Ring-dove Palumbus P. Almost every where in England c. M. Of Beanes and Acornes and the like N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Guarascen RIng-dove Muff. T. the flesh is good when young of very good taste and nourishment Aldrov Yet some count it excrementitious V. Hipp. The flesh is good for Women that have pituitous menses it drying and binding the belly Gal. It 's harder then that of Pigeons Note here the flesh of Birds is lesse nutrient than that of beasts but more easily concocted especially that of the Partridg Heathcock Pigeon Hen and Cock but that of the Turtle Ring-dove and Duck is harder Paul C. The first place amongst Birds is due to the young Pigeon Heathcock Hen and Pheasant the second to Thrushes Blackbirds and Sparrows the third to Ring-doves and the Duck the fourth to the Peacock and the last to the Goose and Ostrich Mart. The flesh eaten hindereth venery Archig It helps those that are stomachick Tral Also the tympanie Aret. And Elephantiasis and cold and phlegmatick collick Alex. Ben. It 's good in the time of pestilence Hipp. It helps those that have lately conceived and the laxity of the womb as also the lientery Bapt. Port. The eyes help cicatrices and ulcers of the eyes Plin. The flesh boiled with vineger helps the dysentery and coeliack Tormina and contractions of the nerves The bloud is like that of Pigeons and helps the gout The dung operats as that of Pigeons and provokes urine Schrod So the ashes of the feathers and help the jaundies As for their description they are sufficiently known Jonst They generate after 3. months old after the manner of Pigeons They build in trees and lay twice in a yeare 3 egges at a time They live 30 years Their noise is like groaning They are simple and hate adultry S. Sparrow Passer P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of Corne Seeds and Flies c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Passerculus the Hedg-sparrow Troglodites SParrow Plat. T. the flesh is to be condemned in meat not nourishing well by reason of its too much heate difficulty of concoction and salacity some count it hot and dry 3° Gal. It 's harder than that of Partridges Elluch It bindeth especially if leane but the broth looseneth the belly it 's not good for temperate Bodies Muff. It engendreth hot and aguish bloud The best are the youngest fattest and wildest The Red and Hedg-Sparrows are unwholesome V. Aldrov H. they are naught in feavers yet they may be used in quartans of natural melancholy being eaten when fat they make salacious So Plin. and Marcel Especially the egges and braines so R. Mos Bapt. Port. Avic Hal. c. Some therefore preserve them with honey The flesh is good against the Epilepsy consuming humours by it's siccity and heate Trall It helps the tympany Gal. As also the stone in the reines and vices of the joynts Myrepsus useth the fat in his plaister against hard swellings Rhas The gall applied causeth venery Plin. The dung put into the next eare with warm oile helps the toothach Archig The powder thereof drunk helps the laxation and nausiousnesse of the stomach Kiran. And causeth falacity drunk with wine and applied with lard it helps the Alopecia and breaketh carbuncles Some use the dung in remedies against the worms in Hawkes That of the Hedg sparrow cleanseth the face and extirpats varices applied with mans spitle Plin. The ashes of the flesh drunk with mulse water help the jaundise two spoonfuls being taken those of the young Ones with vineger help the toothach Schrod The Hedg sparrow breaketh and expelleth the stone A few graines of the dung of the other loosen the belly in Children As for the description it 's uselesse Jonst As for their generation they are most salacious copulating 20 times in an houre They build under the tiles of houses or in holes in the wall they live 3 or 4 years They are very fearfull They hate the Vultur and Weasel c. Stare Sturnus P. Almost every where in all Countries M. Of Berries Grapes and almost any thing N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Sarsir Arab. Alzarazir State Aldrov T. Some count the flesh hard not yeelding to the stomack with a kind of a virouse odour especially in the time of hemlock Platina refuseth the use of it yet Galen reckons it amongst meats of good juyce when young and feeding on Mountaines They are best in Autumne so Jul. Alex. Cardan They are to be dressed without their heads Aver They are hot and dry Muff. Yet savory and good against all poyson so Kiran. V. Aldrovand The dung is cosmetick Aeg. It helps the Morphew also it helps Ringworms so Gal. Diosc Serap Porta as appears by its spots It is abstersive and drying So that of the Crocodile but it 's more effectual Kiran. The flesh helps those that have drunk poyson Arnold But hurts the Hemorrhoids Jonst They build almost like Sparrows fly together in a round circle and chiefely in the evening They fear Hawks Storke Ciconia P. In Egypt and Aethiopia and other places M. Of Frogges Snakes and Fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Chasidu Arab. Zakid Storke Aldrov T. the flesh is almost like that of the Crane their flesh is fibrous hard and of bad aliment
than in the Summer they being then fattest So Villanov Gesn V. The ashes of the flesh being burned in an earthen pot help the stone They are taken by nets in Cock shoots Brids lesse used in meat or Medicine CAstrel Tinnunculus Aldrov T. V. Plin. The dung helps white spots in the eyes Clotbird Coccothraustes Aldrov T. The flesh is used in meate it 's sweet grateful and not disaproved of They feed upon Olives and Berries but chiefely on Cherries and their Kernels Curines Arquatae Ornithol i. e. Gesn They are preferd before Hens the flesh is solid dry and almost like that of hares Bell. It 's like that of Deere but it 's a dainty in France Bell. They live on Worms Feldefare Turdus exoticus T. V. Muff. They feed like Thrushes and give almost as good nourishment Yea better when juniper Berries are ripe all their flesh being then perfumed therewith Goldfinch Carduelis T. V. Platin. The flesh if fat and before breeding is of good aliment but Wecker disaproveth of it yet Kiranides useth it rosted against the Iliack and collick passion Godwit Fedoa Muff. T. When fat it 's a light and fine meat they are a fenny fowl and live of Worms about River banks they are plentiful in Lincolneshire Gluts Muff. Glottides T. V. They are of no bad taste or evill nourishment They feed in the fennes upon red feedes bents and wormes Howlet Vlula Aldrov T. V. the flesh being boiled in oile with Sheeps butter and honey helpeth ulcers The gall helps white spots in the eyes suffusions and the dimnesse of fight Plin. So the fat Hickwal Jynx Hieron Trag. T. The flesh is eaten and of no unplesant taste Jay Gracculus Albert. T. the flesh is eaten after excoriation They are eaten by the rusticks in France yet Aldrovand saith little of the taste of the flesh Muff. It 's of bad nourishment causing the Epilepsy they feed upon mast and wormes c. Jack Daw. Monedula Muff. T. The nourishment is as bad as their conditions their feeding is sufficiently known Ibis Albert. T. The flesh and egges are venimous Kiran. But they rather drive away Serpents Plin. The ashes of the flesh drunk help the tormina The feathers resist Serpents The dung is a substitute for the leaves of the wild Fig-tree Lapwing Vannellus Aldrov T. V. Some buy eate and commend the flesh yet Rhasis counts the same anstere V. Marcel The ashes drunk with wine help the Colon a calaplasme thereof helps the bitings of mad Dogs Plin. The heart helps paines of the sides The bloud applied to the temples causeth in sleep to see wonderfull things The fume of the feathers expels worms The tongue helps oblivion The skinne helps the head-ach Rhas The eye helps the Leprosy Martinet Apos Aldrov T. They are not unpleasant when fat the young ones are dear at Bononia Plin. In wine they help the tormina Mavisse Turdela Anglicana Muff. T. When young fat and in season they are wholesome meate They feed upon hawes sloes misle and privet Berries Osprey Haliaetus Aldrov T. The flesh is not in much use V. Plin. The gall with attick honey helps wefts dimnesse and suffusions of the eyes yet some attribute this to that of the common Eagle Ox-eye Parus Major Muff. T. Their flesh is unwholesome they feed as ordinary Titmise doe upon caterpillers blossoms of trees bark-worms and flies Phenicopter Phoenicopteros Aldrov T. The tongue and brain were chiefely used in meat The cookery may be seen in Apicius Percnopter Percnopteros Avic The gall with oile of violets helps the paine of the head As an errhine it helps flatulency in Children The alcohol with cold water helps white spots in the eyes The gall used outwardly helps the bitings of the Scorpion and Viper Diosc Serap The fuffumigation of the dung expels the Foetus Pelecan Pelecanus Aldrov T. The flesh is hard excrementitious and of a strong nature V. Kiran. The gall mixed with nitre whiteneth black cicatrices taking away and cleansing all the blacknesse the same gall whiteneth rusty silver Plover Pluvialis Gesn T. The flesh is very pleasant and better than the green Lapwing Bellon And much eaten in France Muff. It 's best when fat in the winter-time Parret Psittacus Christ. Columb T. The inhabitants of Grachane count the flesh when fatted very acceptable Poole-suite Totanus Muff. T. They have a strong and unpleasant rellish and live wholly upon fish Puffins Pufina Brit. Muff. T. They are of ill taste and worse digestion how dainty soever they seem to strainge appetites and are permitted by Popes to be eaten in Lent Railes Rallae Muff. T. Those of the Land may be placed next the Partridge for their flesh is as sweet as their feeding good and are therefore preferred to noble mens tables The water Railes are preferred in Italy before Thrushes or Quailes They feed upon water-snailes and water-flies and the worms breeding in the roots of reeds they are very sweet and pleasant of taste yeelding a fine and wholesome nourishment Redshanks Erythropodes Muff. These as also Gluts feed in the fennes upon red seeds bents and worms and are of no bad taste or evil nourishment Redlings or water red-shanks feed as water Railes and are of the like nourishment Robin-red brest Rubecula Muff. T. Is esteemed a light and good meat they feed upon Bees Flies Gnats Wallnuts Nuts and crummes of bread Rooks. Corvi leguminales Muff T. They cannot bee ill meat when they are young feeding chiefely upon Corne but their skinne is tough black and bitter Sea Pye Picus marinus D. Cai. T. The flesh is of a bad taste they feed upon Spawn Frogs and Frie of Fish Sea-mew Larus Aldrov T. The flesh is leane black of a stinking smell and almost abominable V. Cael. Aurel. The dry braine smelled to by infants helps the Epilepsy so taken with mulse and vineger by the adult Kiran. It 's of the nature of the King-fisher and the heart facilitats Child birth The venter dry causeth concoction being tasted of Shovelar Platea Muff. T. They are not inferiour to fatted Gulls being dieted with good meat They feed upon Shell-fish Smirings Ochropodes Muff. They are a fine and delicate meat they live in waterish copses with worms Snite Sneppa Albert. T. The flesh is sweet Gesn yet not so good as Partridge Muff. They are of so light digestion and good in temperature that they agree with most mens stomacks especially a month after their first comming they are dryer and worse at their departure they require not so strong a stomach as the Woodcock They live upon worms which they get out of their holes by blowing into them Stone Chatters Arquatulae ter Muff. T. They are of a very good taste and juyce They feed as Witwals Teales and Widgins Querquedulae Muff. T. Commonly they are very fat and sweet of taste much better than wild Ducks or Geese yet suspected of ill juyce by many They feed upon worms herbs roots and seeds Titmouse Parus Aldrov Gesn T.
to the place made of vine-leaves and honey or the leaves of purslain and barley meale eating much garlick with oile to cause vomiting and drinking wine alayed with water Then let the wound be washed with cold water and the bladder be fomented with hot spunges Some cure it as that of the Viper also by the eating of hard eggs with salt fish as also the seed of radishes juyce of poppy lilly roots daffodil rue trefoile Cassia opopanax and cinamon drunk As for the description they are of a sandy colour a foot long having a small taile flaming eyes and small head with the appearance of horns They goe straight slowly and halting Their skales are rough and sharp therefore they make a noise when they goe Their bodies are spotted with black all over Horned Serpent Cerastes P. They live in the Lybian sandy Seas M. They live upon birds which they catch by craft N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Cerust Heb. Schephiphon Horned Serpents Tops T. They are immoderately dry and therefore their poyson is most pernicious causing death if it be not holpen within nine dayes And at first about the wound there groweth hardnesse and then pustules lastly black earthy and pale matter The genital standeth out straight the patient falleth mad his eyes grow dimme and nerves immanuable on the head of the wound groweth a scab and there is continual pricking as with needles thus of the signes and symptomes The cure is by cutting the flesh unto the bone or dismembring Applying Goats dung fod with vineger or garlick and vineger and barly meale or the juyce of cedar rue or nep with salt and honey or pitch and barly meale c. And inwardly with daffodil and rue drunk radish seed Indian cummin with wine castoreum calamint with emeticks As for the description they are two cubits long of a sandy colour with two hornes teeth like a Viper a gristle for a back-bone L. Lizard Lacerta P. They live almost every where in the fields M. Of grashoppers snailes and bees c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Letaah Ch. Haltetha Arab. Aâ—aia LIzard Tops T. Their flesh eaten causeth inflammation and apostemation head-ach and blindness sc of those in Italy The eggs kill speedily except helped by Falcons dung and wine When they bite they leave their teeth in the place which continually aketh until taken out The cure is by sucking the place then putting in cold water and afterwards making a plaister of oile and ashes V. The medicines of the flesh are the same as of the Crocodile and the flesh very hot therefore it maketh fatt The Henns being eaten that are fed with their fatt mixed with wheate meale halinitre and cumin Card. The same given to Hawkes causeth them to change their feathers Being dissected or the head beaten with salt draweth out nailes or splents With oile it causeth haire to grow upon the head Dissected and applied hot they cure the stingings of Scorpions and Wenns Formerly they used dry Lizards bruised to draw out teeth without paine And sod and stamped with meale or frankincense they applied them to the forehead to cure watering eyes The same burned to powder and mixed with cretick honey to an ointment cureth blindnesse Their oile put into the care helpeth deafenesse and driveth out worms The bloud anointed fasting keepeth children from swelling in the belly and leggs Also the liver and bloud wrapped up in wool draw nailes and thornes out of the flesh and cure freckles The urine if there be any helpeth the rupture in infants The bones taken out of the Lizards head scarify the teeth and the braine helps suffusions The liver laied to the gumbs or hollow teeth helps their paine The dung purgeth wounds and taketh away the whitenesse and itching of the eyes and sharpeneth the sight the same with water is used for a salve Arnold The dung with meale the black being cast away so dryed in a furnace and softned with the water of nitre and froth of the Sea afterwards applied to the eyes in a cloth helps the former evils The green Lizards living in meadows and green fields in Italy loving to Men and enemies to Serpents T. V. Are very useful the skin hanged upon trees and the gall used to the apples keepe them from rotting and drive away catterpillers The flesh eaten helps those that have the sciatica They are given to Hawkes without their touching them a hath thereof causeth a Hawke to cast her old feathers Eaten with sauces they help the falling evil If sod with wine to a third part and a spoonful taken every day they help diseases in the lungs It also helpeth the loines and may be prepared for the eyes Brasavolus his oile hereof helpeth the face and broken pasterns of a Horse with a little vineger The ashes reduce skars in the body to their own colour The bones cleansed by inclosing them in a vessel of salt help the falling evil The bloud applied in flocks of wool cures the beatings bruizings and thick skins in the feet of Men and Beasts The eye is superstitiously used against quartans and paine in the eyes so the bloud of the eyes taken in purple wool The heart helps exulcerations of the kings evil The gall takes away the haire of the eye lids They need not be described being known M. Myllet Cenchru P. They live in Lemnus and Samothracia c. M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cenchrines Milliaris Famusus MYllet or Cenchrine Tops T. They are very hot and therefore venimous in the second degree Therefore putrifaction and rottennesse follow their biting as also more deadly unresistable evils as drousinesse sleepinesse the lethargy paine in the belly especially the collick paine in the liver and stomach killing in two dayes if it be not remedied The cure is like that of the Vipers biting or take the seed of lettuce flax-seed savory stamped wild rue wild bettony and daffodil drach 2. in three cups of wine drinking also after it drach 2. of the root of centaury or hartwort nosewort gentian or sesamine As for their description they are spotted like millet seed about two cubits in length attenuated towards the taile the colour is darke like the Millet and is then most ireful when this herb is highest They goe straight therefore are avoided by winding too and fro They are very daingerous and strong and beate the Body with the taile whilest they suck the bloud N. Neute Lacerta P. They live in ditches and hedges and the like places M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lacerta aquatica NEute or water-lizard Tops T. Some apothecaries use them in steed of Scinks or Crocodiles of the earth but they are deceived deceive others in their vertues operation not having wholesome properties They need no description being well known If taken they shut the mouth they are bred in fatt waters and soiles Their eggs
of the hinde or hare Diosc It 's equal to that of the Hare being drunk in wine against aconite and coagulated milk in vineger See Hare Hal. drunk it helps against toadstooles Plin. And misseltoe white Chameleon and Bulls bloud and all bitings or wounds of all Sea creatures drach 1. being drunk in Wine It helps the spitting of bloud so with vineger Marcel The q. of a beane taken in myrtle wine fasting helpeth the coeliack Plin. And the dysentery Gal. With vineger it helps the fluxes of Women Sym. Seth. The lungs preserve from drunkennesse Marcel The ashes thereof help itchings of the eyes and rough eyebrows being applied as stibium Plin The ashes of the bladder help the incontinency of urine The spleen applied helpeth the pain thereof Marcel And swellings in Children Some adulterate euphorbium with the milk of a Kid but it may be known by its ill savour when burned Tops If they keep together they show a storm at hand else faire weather and when they leap and jump If geese swallow their haires they dye thereof They are not to be seperated from their dams till 3. months old they are then to be fed with milk three leaved grasse ivy and the tops of lentils tender leaves or small twigges of trees The hide serveth to make glew of and the hair to stuffe beds withall The red or sandy coloured are the best but their flesh is hurtfull to the collick else they are wholesome fod rosted or baked L. Lamb. Agnus P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of milk first then on grasse as the sheep N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Kebes Adasia Bidens LAmb. Crescent T. the flesh is good when taken from the dam. Platin. It is more humid than hot but that of a weather is temperate Gal. Amongst land fourefooted Beasts the flesh of Hogges is best then the Kids and lastly the Lambs which is moist and mucous causing flegme but the sheepes is more excrementitious and of worse juyce Here Note that the flesh of all of them when newly brought forth is mucous but especially the Lamb and Pigges See Ram and Sheep Their flesh is moderately hot and superfluously moist and therefore hurteth those who are of a moist temper but helps those that are more dry Also the younger it is the moister it is also and more hardly concocted so in other creatures so Sym. Seth. and by its lubricity it quickly passeth out of the stomach See weather It is good meate for those that are strong and in health but for those that are sick it is bad for though it quickly passeth out of the stomach yet by reason of its viscous humour it sticketh too tenaciously in the parts Athen. It is soon corrupted by reason of its fatnesse so Swines flesh V. Aet The flesh of a Lamb applied warme after cupping glasses helpeth venimous bitings so that of other small and young creatures as that of Hens Kids and Pigges Marcel The decoction of one that hath a white head applied helps baldnesse Avic unc 1. of the bloud mixed with vineger and drunk 3. dayes helpeth the vomiting of bloud so that of a Kid. It helpeth the Epilepsy with Wine so Avic Yet Gesner denyeth it antepilepticks having aâ—tmetick or inciding faculty Aet With fat the curd of a Goat Kid Hare and the gall together with Harts marrow and oile of roses and spike being used to the matrix after purgation it causeth conception Plin. The grease applied with the slough of a Serpent water and bitumen helpeth St. Anthonies fire yet some affirme it of the Beares fat Rhas The marrow melted at the fire with oile of nuts and white sugar being drunk dissolveth the stone of the bladder and helpeth pissing of bloud Albert. As also paines of the genital bladder and reines Aet The skinne spread with pitch and applied to the belly helpeth the dysentery with coldnesse R. Mos A garment made of the skinnes strengthneth the Body of young men They heate more than those of Goats and are better for the back and reines Marcel The ashes of the Bones cure ulcers that will not easily be cicatrized Gal. Plin. The lungs help gallings by the shooe Diosc And keep them from in flammation Marcel The ashes of the same with oile help the ulcers of Kibes Plin. The curd of a Lamb resisteth all evil medicaments and poyson Drunk in Wine it helps against aconite and curdled milk with vineger so Diosc Avic it helpeth all venimous bitings and those of all marine creatures drach 1. being drunk in Wine so that of an Hare or Kid. Plin. Drunk in Wine it helpeth the bitings of the shrew Drunk in water it helps the curdling of the milk in the stomachs of infants Plin. And the vices thereof with vineger Injected into the nostrils with water it stops its bleedings See Kidde Plin. Samon the gall with hony helps the Epilepsy Albert. Applied it helps Cancers Plin. The bloud that issueth out after gelding applied hindereth the grouth of haire after evulsion thereof The decoction of the feet helpeth the paines of the bladder The dung before they eate grasse being dryed and applied plaister wise helpeth the pain of the uvula and jawes so Marcel Schrod the wool with the skinne helpeth the quinsey and other swellings in the neck being applied Tops They know the voice of their dammes though amongst a 1000 Sheep and the Sheep them by smelling on their back parts They wagge the taile whilest sucking If they suck not their mothers their lips are to be anointed with butter or Hogs grease and milk Salt is to be given to them after eaning but the first are not to be nourished The best are bred in the spring and ivy preserves them Linx Lynx P. In Europe America Lithuania and Polonia c. M. Of the flesh of beasts Cats and chiefly the brains N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lupus Cervarius Oxyderches Linx T. The flesh is not yet used V. Schrod The fat helpeth the resolution of the sinews convulsions and luxations The claw is usually put into silver or gold against the falling sicknesse or spasme Gesn The ashes of the claws with that of the skinne being applied helpe luxury in man or woman The urine helpeth the losse of the same in man Plin. As also the paine in the throat Their claws are thought to help the spasme by signature Plin. He hideth the urine being medicinal which after turneth into a stone called lyncurius see my Pammineralogie which being drunk is said to expel the stone and to help the jaundise Solin It helpeth the paines of the reines Jonst Weck The ointment of the fatt expelleth the stone Crollius maketh a salt of the stone crabs eyes Euonimus mixes lithontriptick herbs with the bloud thereof to wast the stone As for the description their head is little eyes shining and countenance couragious They have teats in their breasts and spots on their skinne which is about three foot long the haire is
turning into pure bloud fatning the body and increasing lust Gal. They must not be eaten when newly killed but hang a while in the cold aire Their wings breasts are best as also of all birds that trust to flight except the Woodcock The best are the young and fatt killed by the Hawk after a long flight Their broth is good for a weak stomach for the jaundies and a tainted liver The panado thereof with Capon broth marrow eggs and bread is very nourishing eaten first in the morning or with chines of mutton They stop fluxes rosted and are best at the end of harvest before they have trod or laied Gal. The flesh is of a middle nature neither too thick nor too grosse The old are cold dry binding and resist putrefaction Avic The eggs strengthen the heart are temperate quickly turned into bloud leave little excrement and generate clear and thinne bloud but Elluchases counteth them more subtil and of lesse nourishment than those of Hens They are better boiled than fried V. Aret. The flesh helps those that are elephantiack Cardan Rosted it helps the french pocks Being boiled with quinces eaten and the broth drunk with styptick wine it helps the coeliack and stomachick persons Taken alone it bindeth the body dryeth up the humidity of the stomach and resisteth putrefaction Some use the pulp to restore the decay of strength in sick persons though it 's not now much used Plin. The broth helps the stomack Seren. also the paine of the liver Plin. and the iliack passion and jaundies Sym. Seth. So the marrow with wine so Sext. and Constant Plin. The powder of the ventricle drunk in black wine helps the iliack passion Sym. Seth. Hal. The liver dryed and drunk helps the epilepsy Plin. The bloud helps suffusions of the eyes Diosc The gall is one of the chiefest Gal. and helps the dimnesse of the sight and suffusions so Aet Donat. ab Altomar So with honey and the juyce of fennel Or with opobalsamum Kiran. The gall used to the temples once in a month strengthens the memory Myreps It being dropped in warm helps the want of hearing The fume of the feathers smelled to helps the strangling of the womb Orinthol lib. Germ. And the apoplexy with wild cumin and white frankincense Plin. The eggs make fruitful cause milk and help the eyes Schrod Crat. The liver is an antidote against feavers being taken often in yarrow water The fume of the feathers helps the collick and other paines Applied with mints and southernwood in a sacculus it helps the paines of the belly As for the description it 's needlesse Jonst They are very libidinous in so much that the males ejaculat sperme only hearing the noise of the female and seem to copulate with their own image in a looking glasse therefore they use to breake the eggs of their mates The females also are no lesse salacious They fight often and make their nests in bushes They lay 10 or 15 eggs and sit twice in a yeare the young runne abroad drawing their shells after them and seeke their meat They live 15 or 16 yeares Thy fly low and not farre Their call is known When the fowler commeth neere they runne like young ones and leade them from their nests and teach the young to squat when they heare their note Peacock Pavo P. In Asia Suecia England and other countries M. Of corne chiefely barly herbs and serpents N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pavus Avis Medica Junonis Peacock Marcel Ficin T. The flesh is in a middle nature betwixt that which is moist and dry Gal. It 's of most hard concoction Some count it hot and moist Aldrov Cardan But it 's rather cold and dry for that which is hot and moist presently putrifieth but this lasteth long so D. Augustin It being melancholick grosse and fatt therefore it yeeldeth strong aliment and is hardly concocted H. It is naught for those that are hepatick splenetick or troubled with the hemorrhoids The eggs are much of the temper of the flesh which is nidorulent hard fibrous and so bad yet not of an unpleasant taste Muff. The young are very good meat of a pleasant and strange taste and good nourishment Aldrov V. The broth if fatt is commended against the pleuresy And the tongue against the epilepsy Sym. Seth. The fatt with the juyce of rue and honey helps the collick of cold humours Also the powder of the bones applied with vineger helps the leprosy and morphew Gesn The fume of the feathers helps bleare and red eyes The dung helps the eyes and heat of the gout Sext. Kiran. Drunk it helps the epilepsy Schrod Querc Pharm Rest The fume of the feathers helps the rising of the womb The eggs help the running gout The D. of the dung is drach 1. The description is needlesse Jonst The males are salacious requiring five hens c. or else breake the eggs They copulate from February to March They live twenty or thirty yeares and they fly little Their voice is known They carry their tailes out of the dirt and spread them chiefly against the sunne Their diseases are the toothach and falling off of the feathers at which time they hide themselves When they cry much in the night they foretell raine Pheasant Phasianus P. In Media England France and other places M. Of Corne seeds and berries c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Piseon Munster Pheasant Gal. T. The juyce of the flesh is neither thin nor grosse as for nutriment and concoction it 's like that of a Henne Sym. Seth. It 's of good juyce and engendreth good and laudable bloud Some preferre it before the Partridg others count it in the midst betwixt that and the Capon but Averroes prefers it before that of any foule yet Isaac maketh them inferiour to the Partridg also Elluchases counteth them lesse subtile and temperate some say it nourisheth more but is lesse strengthning and restorative And Aldrovand prefers it before the forementioned fleshes it being of a good taste and so more greedily received by the stomach also it is quickly concocted and yeelds little excrement The eggs are next to those of Henns Muff. They are best in winter and when young they are fittest for weake stomacks The flesh is good after recovery in hectick feavers V. Alex. Tral The decoction helps those that are purulent being cleansing and loosening Leonel Fav The flesh is used in remedies against the Phthisis Villan It 's an antidote against the virulency of the marrow of a Ram. Kiran. The bloud resists all poyson Aeg. The fatt is used in the plaister diapyranu the same helps the tetanos and passion of the matrix The gall sharpens the sight The dung drunk causeth erection Gal. The fatt helps the affections of the reines As for the description it may be omitted Jonst They copulate in March and April One Cock serveth two Henns They lay twenty eggs They sit once in a yeare and hatch in thirty dayes