The medicines of the Ibex.

Some do commend the blood of the Ibex to be a very good remedy against the stone of the bladder, being vsed in this manner: first, they deuide it in partes, and put one part of the blood, and about some sixe parts of wine Apiat and Hony mixed together, and doe boile them both together lukewarme, and afterwardes they reserue it in a cleane vessell, and the third day in the morning they giue it vnto the party to drinke who is grieued, and then they put him into a Bath about noone time, and in the euening, and this order is to [ 10] obserued for three daies together, for it will come to passe that in that space the stone will be dissolued and turned into sand or grauell, and so by that meanes will haue vent toge∣ther with the vrine.

There is also by the dung of the aforesaid beast, an excelent remedy against the Sciati∣ca or hippe-gout, by which that most excellent Physitian Ausonius himselfe was healed, and many other lying disperate of remedy, which is this; to gather the dunge of this beast in the seuenteeneth day of the Moone, neither is it any great matter whether you gather it in some part of the old Moone, for it wil haue the same operation: you shal ther∣fore take as much of this dung as you can hold in your hand or fist at one time: so that the quantity of the dung be vnlike, and you shall put it in a morter and beate it to powder, & [ 10] cast twenty grains of pepper into the same fime, being very diligently pounded or brui∣sed, and then you shall adde nine ounces of the best hony vnto the aforesaid mixture, and foure pounds of the best wine, and mixe the potion in the manner of a compound wine, and the dung or durt being dryed and beaten first, you shall mingle all the rest and put them together in a vessell made of glasse, that when you haue any need you may haue the medicine ready prepared, to comfort him or her which is so afflicted.