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 n••w 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 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 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.