The medicines of the Panther, or Leopard.
If the skinne or hide of a Leopard being taken and flead be couered or laid vppon the [ 20] ground, there is such force and vertue in the same that any venemous or poison some ser∣pentes dare not approch into the same place where it is so laid. The flesh of a Panther being roasted or boiled at the fire, and smelled by any one which is troubled with the pal∣sie, or shaking in the ioyntes, as also by them which are troubled with the bearing and continuall mouing or turning of the heart, is a very profitable and excellent remedy for the same.
The same fat or sewet of a Leopard being mixed or mingled with the Oyle which pro∣ceedeth from the Bay-tree, and then mollified both together, and so annointed vpon any one which is troubled with the scurfe or Mangy, the scabs whereof doth cut or pierce the [ 30] skinne, doth presently and without any griefe or paine cure the same. The twigges of a Vine-tree being dryed and beaten into small dust or powder, and mingled together with the fat or grease of a Leopard, and so annointed vppon the face of any one who is grieued with akings and swellinges thereon, will not onely cure and heale the same without any paine or sorrow, but also preserue the same free from blemishes in the time of healing. The grease also of a Leopard by it selfe, being annointed vpon the head of any one who doth shead or cast his haire or is troubled with the Foxes euill, doth immediately helpe and cure the same. The blood of a Panther being annointed vpon the vaines or sinnewes of either man or woman who is grieued with any swelling or akings therein, is very profi∣table and curable to expell the same away. The braines of a Leopard being mingled with a [ 40] little quantity of the water which is called a Canker, and with a little Iasmine, and so mix∣ed together and then drunke, doth mittigate the paine or ach of the belly. The braines of the same beast being mixed with the iuyce of a canker & annointed vpon the genital of a∣ny man, doth incitate and stir him vp to lechery, but the marrow which commeth from this beast being drunke in wine doth ease the paine or wringing of the guts and the belly. The gall of a Panther being receiued into the body either in meate or drinke, doth instant∣ly and out of hand kill or poyson him which doth so receiue it. The right stone of a Leo∣pard being taken of a woman of a farre spent age, doth restore vnto her, her menstruall purgation being ceased, and doth make her to purge, if she doe hartely receiue hir meate [ 50] more often.