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 hungry euill.

THis is a verie great desire to eat, following some great emptinesse, or lacke of meate, and it is called of the olde Authorus by the Greeke name Bulimos, which is as much

to say, as a great hunger proceeding, as the Physitians say, at the first of some extreame outward cold, taken by long trauelling in cold barren places, and especially where snow aboundeth, which outward cold causeth the stomacke to be cold, and the inward powers to be feeble. The cure according to Absyrtus and Hierocles, is in the beginning to com∣fort the horses stomacke, by giuing him bread sopt in wine. And if you be in a place of rest, to giue him wheat flower and wine to drinke, or to make him cakes or bals of flow∣er and wine kneaded togither, and to feed him with that, or with wine and nuttes of pine trees. Hierocles saith, if any such thing chaunce by the way whereas no flower is to be had, then it shall be best to giue him wine and earth wrought togither, either to drinke or else [ 10] to eate in bals.