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 falling of the yard.

[ 20] IT commeth as I take it, through the weakenes of the member, by meanes of some re∣solution in the muscles and sinnewes seruing the same, caused at the first (perhaps) by some great straine or stripe on the backe. It may come also by wearines and tiring. For remedy whereof, Absirtus was wont to wash the yard with salt water from the sea if it may be gotten, and if not with water and salt, and if that preuailed not, he would al to pricke the outmost skinne of the yard with a sharpe needle but not deepe, and then wash all the prickes with strong Vineger, and that did make the horse as he saith, to draw vp his yarde againe immediately: yea, and this also will remedy the falling out of the fundament. Pela∣gonius would haue you to put into the pipe of his yard, hony and salt boiled togither and made liquid, or else a quicke fly, or a graine of Frankencense or a cloue of Garlicke clean [ 30] pilled, and somewhat brused, and also to powre on his back oile, wine, Nitre made warm and mingled togither. But Martins experience is in this sort. First wash the yarde with warm white wine, and then anoint it with oyl of Roses and hony mingled togither, and put it vp into the sheath, and make him a cod-peece of Canvas to keepe it still vp, and dresse him thus euery day once vntil it be whole. And in any case let his backe be kept warme, ei∣ther with a dubble cloath, or else with a charge made of bole Armonie, Egges, wheate-flower, Sanguis Draconis, Turpentine, and Vineger, or els lay on a wet sacke, which being couered with another dry cloath wil keepe his backe very warme.