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.

Of the Cough.

OF Coughes, some be outward and some be inwarde. Those bee outward which doe come of outward causes, as by eating a feather, or by eating dusty or sharpe

straw and such like things: which tickling his throate, causeth him to cough: you shal per∣ceiue it by wagging and wrying his head in his coughing, and by stamping somtime with his foote, laboring to get out the thing that grieueth him, and cannot. The cure accor∣ding to Martin is thus. Take a Willow wand, rowled throughout with a fine linnen clout, and then annoint it all ouer with hony, and thrust it downe his throat, drawing your hand to and fro, to the intent it may either driue down the thing that grieueth him, or else bring it vp, and do this twice or thrice, annointing euery time the sticke with fresh hony.