Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globeBourke, John Gregory
Religion
Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe
Bourke, John Gregory
Scatology
Cow-dung, burnt, diluted with boys’ urine, was rubbed on the toes of the
patient in quartan fevers.—(Idem, c. 66.)
Calf-dung, internally, in melancholia.—(Idem, c. 67.)
Swine’s dung, internally, consumption.—(Idem.)
Wild-boar’s urine, internally, dropsy.—(Idem, c. 68.)
Cow-urine, internally, dropsy.—(Idem.)
Calf-urine, internally, dropsy.—(Idem.)
Bull-urine, internally, dropsy.[72]—(Idem.)
Calf-dung, cow-dung, swine’s dung, asses’ dung, all applied externally
for the cure of erysipelas and purulent eruptions.—(Idem, c. 69.)
Wild-boar’s dung, swine’s dung, calf-dung, goat-dung, cow-dung,
externally, for sprains, indurations, and boils.—(Idem, c. 70.)
Wild-boar’s dung, swine’s dung, hare-dung, goat-dung, externally, burns
of all kinds.—(Idem, c. 71.)
Goat-dung, wild-boar’s dung, externally, contusions, bruises, etc.—(Idem,
c. 72.)
The Emperor Nero, being of scrofulous tendency, drank the ashes of
wild-boar dung in water, to refresh himself.—(Idem.)
Asses’ dung, burnt, externally, hemorrhages.—(Idem, c. 73.)
Calf’s dung, burnt, externally, hemorrhages.—(Idem.)
Swine’s dung, externally, to ulcers.—(Idem, c. 74.)
Goat-dung, externally, to ulcers.—(Idem.)
Swine’s dung, fresh, externally, to wounds.—(Idem.)
Horse’s dung, cow-dung, fresh, externally, to wounds.—(Idem.)
Asses’ dung, externally, itch.—(Idem, c. 75.)
Cow-dung, externally, itch.—(Idem.)
Cow-dung, she-goat’s dung, applied externally to extract thorns.—(Idem,
c. 76.)
Wild-boar’s dung, or swine’s dung, internally, in inflammation of the
uterus.—(Idem, c. 77.)
Asses’ dung, in plaster or powder, or as a fumigation, for all uterine
troubles.—(Idem.)
Ox-dung as a fumigation, for falling of the womb.—(Idem, lib. xxviii. c.
77.)
Cat’s dung, as a pessary, for uterine ulcerations.—(Idem.)
“She-goat’s urine, taken internally, and the dung applied topically, will
arrest uterine discharges, however much in excess.”—(Idem.)
Swine’s dung, as an injection, used to cure beasts of burden of voiding
blood.—(Idem, c. 81.)
“The oxen in the Isle of Cyprus cure themselves of gripings in the
abdomen, it is said, by swallowing human excrement.”—(Idem.)
Dung of mice and the ashes of sheep-dung prescribed for dandruff. The
dung of a peacock stated to be of great value in medicine, but for what
not stated.—(Idem, c. 6.)
Sheep-dung, externally, in serpent bites.—(Idem, c. 15.)
“A most efficient remedy for wounds inflicted by the asp,” was for “the
person stung to drink his own urine.”—(Idem, c. 18.)
“For the bite of all spiders ... sheep’s-dung, applied in
vinegar.”—(Idem, c. 27.)
Poultry-dung, good as an application for the sting of the
scorpion.—(Idem, c. 29.)
“The dung of poultry, provided it is of a red color, is very useful,
applied with vinegar.” Also for bite of a mad dog.—(Idem, c. 32.)
The urine of a mad dog was believed to be injurious to those people who
trod upon it, especially those persons with scrofulous sores.—(Idem.)
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