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CHAP. VII. Of the defects of the Ears.
SUch as want their Ears, either naturally or by misfortune, as through a wound, carbun∣cle, cancer, or the biting of wild beasts: if so be that the Ear be not wholly wanting, wasted, consumed, or torn away; but that some portion thereof doth yet remain, then must it not be neglected, but must have many holes made therein with a bodkin; and after that the holes are cicatrized, let some convenient thing, made like unto the piece of the Ear that is ••ost, be tied or fastned unto it by these holes.
But if the Ear be wholly wanting, another must be made of paper artificially glewed together, or else of leather, and so fastned with laces, from the top or hinder part of the head, that it may stand in the appointed place; and so the hair must be permitted to grow long, or else some cap worn under the hat, which may hide or cover the deformity, unless you had rather have it to be shadowed or counterfeited by some Painter, that thereby it may resemble the colour of a natural Ear; and so retain it in the place where it ought to stand, with a rod or wier comming from the top or hinder part of the head, as we have spoken before in the loss of ••he Eie; and the form there∣of is this.