The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...

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The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...
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Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
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1658.
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The Medicines of the wilde Swine.

There are declared a M. things concerning the remedies of Goats, but a larger and more ample power shal be shewn of a wilde beast of the same kinde. Also the same regard shall be had concer∣ning the remedies of a tame Sow and a wilde Boar, yea, of all other tame and wilde beasts, that is, that the same or things like to either of them may be ended, differing only according to more or lesse, because the same parts of wilde beasts living, are lesse moist and cold then those that are tame. That which we repeat here concerning the common remedies of a Boar and Sow tamed, in some of the parts of them, to wit, the blood, the brain, the cheek-bone, the lungs or lights, the liver, the gall, the ankle bone, the hoof, the dung, and urine, is not in the Sow repeated before.

The brains of a Boar taken with blood, is very much commended against the bitings of Serpents. Again, the brains and blood of a Boar, doth help those that fear the coming of Carbuncles. The lard and fat of a Boar being sodden and bound fast together, doth with a wonderfull celerity make firm those bones that are broken. The fat of a Boar mingled with Hony and Rozin, is very much commended against the bitings of Serpents.

The fat of a wilde Boar mingled with the fat of the lungs or lights, doth very much profit those which have their feet broken or bruised by any mischance. The fat of a Boar being mixed with Oyl of Roses, is very good for those that are troubnd with blisters or pushes, it being anointed thereupon. The brains of a Boar is very profitable for Carbuncles, and the pains of a mans yard. The brains of a Boar being bruised very small in Hony, and put thereto, doth

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wonderfully make it sound. The brains of a Boar sodden and drunk in wine, doth ease all the pains and griefs. There are more things spoken concerning the remedies of the brain in the medicines of the Sow. The ashes of the cheek-bone of a Boar doth cure those ulcers which do encrease bigger by little and little.

Also the same thing doth make firm those bones that are broken. The lungs or lights of a Boar mixed with hony, and put upon the feet after the manner of a mollifying emplaister, they shall be freed from all exulcerations. Dioscorides also doth commend the lungs or lights of Sowes, Lambs; and Bears. The liver of a Boar being new killed and scorched by a fire, and beaten to powder, and so being taken in wine, is an especiall remedy against the bitings of Serpents and Dogs. The liver of a Boar being old, and drunken in wine with Rue, is very much commended against the bitings of Serpents. The Fibres of the liver of a Boar, and those especially which are neerest to the entrance of the gall and liver, being taken in Vinegar or rather wine, is much profitable against the bitings of Serpents.

The liver of a Boar is good to revive those whose spirits are drowsie. The liver of a Boar doth much profit, being stopped in the ears, for those that are troubled with Apostumes or any running sores therein. The liver of a Boar being new killed and drunken in wine is very effectuall against the loosenesse of the belly. There are certain little stones in the liver of a Boar, as there is in a common or vulgar Sow, or at leastwise like unto little stones, and they are also white, which being sodden and taken in wine, are very e••••ectuall against the disease of the Stone. Thou shalt read many more things concerning the remedies of the liver of a Boar in the medicines of the Sow. The gall of a Boar is very much commended for Wennes or swellings in the neck.

The gall of a Boar being mingled with Rosin and Wax, doth cure those ulcers which do encrease bigger and bigger. The gall of a Boar, and Lambs milk, being mingled together, and dropped in the ears, is very profitable for all pains therein. The body of a man being anointed with the gall of a Boar, doth stirre him up to carnal copulation. The gall of a Boar being mingled with sewet and applyed upon every joynt of the body, doth immediately cure all pains of the Gowt. We have declared also many things in the medicines of the Sow, concerning the remedies of the gall of a Boar. The stones of a Boar being eaten is very good against the Falling sicknesse, or the stones of a Boar being taken in Mares milk or water, is also very effectual against the same disease. The hoofs of a Boar being burned to ashes, and sprinkled upon drink, and so taken, doth very much help those that cannot easily make water.

The hooves of a Boar being burned and beaten to powder, and given in drink, is very effectual against the stopping of urine. The hooves of a Boar or Sow being burned, and given to drink in wine, is very much commended for those that cannot hold their urine in their sleep. The dung of a Sow (which liveth in the Woods) being dryed and drunk in water and wine, doth stay the voiding of blood, and doth ease also old pains of the sides: And again being taken in Vinegar, it doth stay all ruptures and convulsions, and also being mingled with the syrup of Roses, it doth remedy or help those places which are out of joynt.

The dung of a Boar being new made, and hot, is a speciall remedy against the flux of blood which issueth forth of the Nostrils. The dung of a Boar being mingled in wine, and applyed after the form of an emplaister, do presently draw away and make sound any thing which cleaveth to the body. It being also bruised and sodden with hony, and afterwards kneaded like Dough, and so applyed to the joynts, doth ease all pains that arise therein.

An emplaister made of the dung of a Boar, is very profitable against all venemous bitings, for it draweth forth the poyson. All other ulcers are filled up and cleansed with the dung of a Boar, except those which arise in the thighes. The dung of a Boar dried and beaten to powder, and sprinkled upon drink, doth cure all pains of the sides. Again, it being dried and beaten to powder, and administred in wine, doth not only cure the pain in the Spleen, but also the pain in the kidneys The dung of a Boar being burned to the ashes, and given to drink in wine, doth ease all pains in the knees and legs. The dung of a Boar nw made and anoynted upon those places that are out of joynt, is very profitable for them. The dung of a field-boar mixed with brimstone, and taken in * 1.1 wine, and strained Pitch, is very commendable for pains in the hips. The dung of a Boar being min∣gled with wine, and afterwards strained, and given to drink, about the measure of two little cup∣fuls at a time, doth speedily help those which are troubled with the Sciatica.

It also being sodden in Vinegar and Hony, doth mitigate all pains that rise in the feet or ankles The dung of a Boar burned to ashes, and sprinkled upon wine luke-warm, and so given to drink, doth help all those that are troubled with the bloody-flix. The rest of the remedies which con∣cern the dung of a Boar, thou shalt find in the medicines of the Sow. The urine of a Boar min∣gled with Hony and water, and so taken, is a speciall remedy for those that are troubled with the Falling sicknesse.

Again, the urine of a Boar being taken in sweet Vinegar, doth drive out those things which are dryed in the bladder. The urine of a Boar being kept in a glasse, doth cure all diseases and pains in the ears, but it is especially profitable for those which cannot hear. The urine of a Boar being * 1.2 kept in a glasse, and made luke-warm, and dropped into the ears, is a speciall remedy for all Apostumes that are therein. The urine of a Boar which is kept long, is far more profitable, if so be that it be kept in a vessel of glasse. Again, the urine of a Boar being dryed in smoak, and moistened with Hony, and so powred into the ears, doth cure the deafnesse of the ears.

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The urine of a Boar, and Oyl of Cypresse, each of them being equally mingled, and made luke-warm, is also good for the same disease.

The urine of a wilde Boar also is of the same force and vertue. The bladder of a wilde Boar doth stay the incontinency of the urine, if it be eaten, rosted, or boyled. The blather of a Goat being bured to powder, and given to drink in water and wine, is very good and profitable for those which cannot make water easily. The urine of a Boar being drunken, doth help those that are troubled with the stone in the bladder, but it is more effectuall if it be first of all mingled with the dung. The Bladder of a Boar moistened with the urine, and hung up untill the waterish hu∣mor * 1.3 cometh forth, and then boyled and given to those which are trueulent with the Strangury, is very profitable and good for them.

The Bladder of a Boar being dried and given in drink, is very profitable for those which are troubled with pains in the bladder and wringings of the guts. The urine of a tame Boar hung up in the smoak in the bladder of a Sow, and mixed with drink, is very profitable for those that are troubled with the Strangury. The urine of a Boar, or at least wise the bladder be∣ing given in drink, hath cured those which have been troubled with the Hydropsy as some do say. The urine of a Boar being taken in drink, is very good for those that are troubled with the Stone.

Now forasmuch also as Hunters are hurt by some, I thought it good to set down what remedies is fit for them. Therefore the wounds made of them are dangerous, because they are not only * 1.4 deep, but also large and great, and it is also impossible to bring them to a glutination with medi∣cines, for the lips of the wounds which is made by contusion, are cut off and burned. They use a mutuall gnashing and striking of their teeth together, as it were against a whestone, to take re∣venge upon those which pursue and follow them. Therefore they cause a certain scab to grow upon the lips of the wound, wherefore it is meet to use a suppurative and not a glutinative manner of cure in them. It is meet to use in running and moist ulcers, not hot things, but cold, both in Win∣ter and Summer. For it is an easie matter for a Boar to hurt a Horse in the inside of his knee, in the time of his hunting, which doth breed to a waterish ulcer, and there doth also follow a swell∣ing. To this cold things are to be applyed, and it is to be cured by anointing it with a medicine which is called Diachalcanthes, or the head of a Dog, being burned about the tongue, and beaten into pow∣der, and so to be applyed after the manner of a Cataplasme. And thus much concerning the me∣dicines of the Boar.

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