The Medicines of the Sorex.
Serenus and Pliny say, that if a woman with childe do eat the sinews of a Sorex, if her eyes be black, so shall the Infants be likewise;
Si praegnans artus captivi Soricis edit, Dicuntur foetus nigrantia lumina fingi.
The fat of these Beasts or of Dormice, is very profitable against the Palsie. The powder of the heads and tails anointed with Hony upon the eyes, restoreth the clearness of sight, and with Hony Attick, the powder and fat of a Sorex burned, helpeth running eyes; and the same powder mingled with Oyl, cureth bunches in the flesh.
There is another Mouse called by Mathaeolus, Mus Napelli, that is, a Wolf-bane-mouse: so called, * 1.1 because it feedeth upon the roots of that Herb; although there be some of opinion, that it is not a creature, but another little Herb growing near unto it for a counter-poyson.
And Marcellus also maketh mention of Napellus, and Antinapellus, whereunto I should easily con∣descend, but that the eyesight of Mathaeolus leadeth me to the contrary. For he writeth that he took one of them in the top of a high Mountain in Italy. And Sylvaticus calleth this Mouse Mus Suring, or Sucsinus, and calleth it a Counter-poyson to Wolf-bane, and that God might shew thus much unto men, he causeth it to live upon the roots, in testimony of his natural vertue destroying poyson and venemous herbs.