As in other Venomous Bites, so in this, _Galen_ (88) very wisely advises to inlarge the Wound, by making a round Incision about it, to Cauterise it with a hot Iron, and apply drawing Medicines, so as to keep it a running Ulcer at least Forty Days. (89) _Scarifying_ and _Cupping_ may answer where this Severity is not allow’d: And however, the Dressing it with _Unguentum Ægyptiacum_ (or the like) Scalding Hot, must not be omitted; by which alone, timely applied, I am assured that one Bitten was happily preserved. But where these Means of destroying the Ferment in the beginning are omitted, the dangerous Consequences of its being mixed with the Blood is by all possible Care to be prevented. To this purpose, to say nothing of the many Inconsiderate Jumbles of _Antidotes_, _Theriacas_, &c. nor of such vulgar Trifles as the _Liver_ of the Mad Dog, of which _Galen_ (90) observed, that tho’ some who made use of it, together with other good Medicines, recover’d, yet that they who trusted to it alone died; one of the greatest Remedies commended to us by Antiquity, is the _Cineres Cancrorum Fluviatilium_; which _Galen_ (91) says, no Body ever made use of, and miscarried; and before Him _Dioscorides_ (92) assured, that ’tis a Medicine may be rely’d on. These were given in large Quantities, _viz._ a good Spoonful or Two every Day for Forty Days together, either alone, or rather mix’d with the Powder of _Gentian Root_ and _Frankincense_. The _Vehicle_ was either Water or Wine. In like manner at this Day the Remedy in the greatest Repute of any against most Poisons in the _West-Indies_, is a kind of a _River-Craw-Fish_, call’d _Aratu_ (93). This is manifestly an _Absorbent_, and very _Diuretic_ Medicine, especially when prepared after the right manner, which was by Burning the Craw-Fish alive upon a _Copper-Plate_, with a Fire made of the Cuttings or Twigs of _White Briony_: For whether the latter part of the Management signifies much or no, the former most certainly does; and the _Salt_ of the _Copper_, which powerfully provokes Urine, being mix’d with that of the _Ashes_, may very much exalt their Virtue. And it is upon this same Score, that the _Spongia_ of the _Cynnorrhodos_ or _Rosa Sylvestris_ is so Celebrated an Antidote, not only for this Poison, but also for that of the Viper, _Tarantula_, and others too, that ’tis call’d in _Sicily Sanatodos_, or All-heal; this being not a _Vegetable_, as _P. Boccone_ (94) who has wrote a whole Letter of its wondrous Virtues, terms it, but an _Animal Alkali_, as well as the former; for as Mr. _Ray_ (95) has observed, this Spongy Excrescence, if it be cut, is found full of White Worms; Being the Nest of these Insects, which lodging here all the Winter, do in the beginning of the Spring turn to Flies, and quit their Quarters. Indeed this Remedy was antiently too of so great Esteem, that _Pliny_ recommends it as the only Cure of an _Hydrophobia_, divinely discovered by an Oracle (96).