sideritis may take hold of Scorpions, and not be hurt by them.[1104] Dioscorides, among many other remedies for the sting of the Scorpion, prescribes “a fish called _Lacerta_, salted and cut in pieces; the barbel fish cut in two; the flesh of a fish called _Smaris_; house-mice cut asunder; horse or ass dung; the shell of an Indian small nut; ram’s flesh burnt; mummie, four grains, with butter and cow’s milk; a broiled Scorpion eaten; river-crabs raw and bruised, and drank with asses’ milk: locusts broiled and eaten,” etc. Rabby Moyses prescribes pigeon’s dung dried; Constantinus, hens’ dung, or the heart applied outwardly; Anatolius, crows’ dung; Averrhois, the bezoar-stone; Monus, silver; Silvaticus, from Serapis, pewter; and Orpheus, coral. “Quintus Serenus writes thus, and adviseth: These are small things, but yet their wounds are great, And in pure bodies lurking do most harm, For when our senses inward do retreat, And men are fast asleep, they need some charm, The Spider and the cruel Scorpion Are wont to sting, witnesse great Orion, Slayn by a Scorpion, for poysons small Have mighty force, and therefore presently Lay on a Scorpion bruised, to recall The venome, or sea-water to apply Is held full good, such virtue is in brine, And ’tis approved to drink your fill of wine. “And Macer writes of houseleek thus: Men say that houseleek hath so soveraign a might, Who carries but that, no Scorpion can him bite.”[1105] The natives of South Africa, when bitten by a Scorpion, apply, as a remedy, a living frog to the wound, into which animal it is supposed the poison is transferred from the wound, and it dies; then they apply another, which dies also: the third perhaps only becomes sickly, and the fourth no way affected. When this is observed, the poison is considered to be extracted, and the patient cured. Another method is to apply a kidney, scarlet, or other bean, which swells; then apply another and another, till the bean ceases to be affected, when they consider the poison extracted.[1106] There is a vast desert tract, says Pliny, on this side of the Ethiopian Cynamolgi--the “dog-milkers”--the inhabitants of which were exterminated by Scorpions and venomous ants.[1107] Navarette tells us, in the account of his voyage to the Philippine Islands, that there was there in practice a good and easy remedy against the Scorpions which abound in that country. This was, when they went to bed, to make a commemoration of St. George. He himself, he says, for many years continued this devotion, and, “God be praised,” he adds, “the Saint always delivered me both there and in other countries from those and such like insects.” He confesses, however, they used another remedy besides, which was to rub all about the beds with garlic.[1108]