LIVING-CREATURES.
MIllepedes (so called from the multitude of their feet, though it cannot be supposed they have a thousand,) Sows, Hoglice, (in Sussex they call them Woodlice:) being bruised and mixed with Wine, they provoke urine, help the yellow Jaundice; out∣wardly being boyled in oyl, help pains in the ears, a drop being put into them.
The flesh ofa 1.1 Vipers being eaten, cleer the sight, help the vices of the nerves, resist poyson exceedingly, neither is there any better remedy under the Sun for their bitings than the head of the Viper that bit you, bruised and applied to the place, and the flesh eaten, you need not eat above a drachm at a time, and make it up as you shall be taught in Troches of Vipers. Neither any comparable to the stinging of Bees and Wasps &c. than the same that stung you, bruised and applied to the place.
Land Scorpions, cure their own stingings by the same means, the ashes of them (being burnt) potent∣ly provokes urine and breaks the stone.
Earth-Worms, (the preparation of which you may find towards the latter end of the Book) are an ad∣mirable remedy for cut nerves being applied to the place, they provoke urine, see the oyl of them, on∣ly let me not forget one notable thing quoted by Mi∣zaldus, which is, that the pouder of them put into an hollow tooth, makes it drop out.
Eels, being put into Wine or Beer, and suffered to die in it, he that drinks it will never endure that sort of liquor again.
Oysters, applied alive to a pestilential swelling, draw the venom to them.
Crab-fish, burnt to ashes, and a drachm of it taken every morning helps the bitings of mad-dogs, and all other venemous beasts.
Swallows, being eaten, cleer the sight, the ashes of them (being burnt) eaten, preserves from drunken∣ness, helps sore throats being applied to them, and inflamations.
Grashoppers, being eaten, ease the chollick, and pains in the bladder.
Hedg-Sparrows, being kept in salt, or dryed, and eaten raw, are an admirable remedy for the stone.
Young Pidgeons being eaten, help pains in the reins, and the disease called Tenasmus.