The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell.

[ 40] Of the hough boonie, or hard knob.

THis is a round swelling boony, like a Paris bal, growing vpon the tippe or elbow of the hough, and therefore I thought good to cal it the hough-boonie. This sorance commeth of some stripe or bruse, and as Martin saith, is cured thus. Take a round hot yron somewhat sharpe at the ende like a good bigge bodkin, and let it be somewhat bending at the point. Then holding the sore with your left hande, pulling it somewhat from the sinnewes, pierce it with the yron, being first made red hot, thrusting it beneath in the bottome, and so vpward into the belly, to the intent that the same ielly may yssue downeward out at the hole, and hauing thrust out al the ielly, taint the hole with a tainte [ 50] of Flaxe dipt in Turpentine, and Hogges greace moulten together, and also annointe the out-side with Hogges greace made warme, renewing it euery daye once vntill the hole be ready to shut vp, making the taint euery day lesser and lesser, to the intent it may heale vp.