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¶Auicenna saith the Asse hathe grete vertue for they that sitte in the water that the asse is soden in / it heleth them of lepry the crampe or drye shrōked se∣newes / & the flessh is gode for thē to be eten / the leuer rosted & etyn in the mor¦nynge fastinge is gode for the pulētis his flesshe li••er or houe brēt to asshes
& men gyd with oyle is gode for the dis¦ease named scrofulas / the vryne of the asse is gode for ye payne in the kydnes Galienus saithe the vryne of a wylde asse is gode for the stone in the coddes / and it helpeth also meruelously well the ronnynge or crepynge sore / The mylke of an asse is gode for the drying coghe and also for theim that spette or spewe blode / the mylte of an asse bray¦ed with clene water and layde vnto a womans brest draweth the mylke vn¦to it outwardes / the mylke of an asse dothe swage the great styffe belyes / & also mylke of a asse taken in the mou¦the of one that hathe weke gōmes and tethe dothe strengthen them very wel the lyuer of a tame asse eten / is gode for the epulentis whiche is the falling sekenes / the dounge of the asse is very medecinable to staunche the blode at the vaynes or of any other woundes the water of the donge dropped in the nose thrilles / staūcheth the blode there ¶Plinius saith that if a rynge be ma¦de of the houe or of the bone of ye asses legge where as no blacke is on & that p•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 on the finger of one that hath th•• ••ge sekenes / they shall be pre¦serued and nat fall / Make a smoke of longues of an asse in a house & though there were neuer so many serpentis adders or snakes or other venymous crepinge bestes / they sholde flee as fast as they coude from that place.