“The proper remedy in such cases is to apply horse-dung.”—(Idem.) “Whoever makes water where a dog has previously watered, will be susceptible of numbness in the loins.”—(Idem, c. 32.) “Poultry-dung, but the white part only, ... is an excellent antidote to the poison of fungi and mushrooms; it is a cure also for flatulence and suffocations,—a thing the more to be wondered at, seeing that if any living creature only tastes this dung, it is immediately attacked with griping pains and flatulency.”—(Idem, c. 33.) “The dung of wood pigeons ... an antidote to quicksilver.”—(Idem.) Sheep-dung, mouse-dung, poultry-dung, applied externally in the treatment of baldness or “alopœcia,” so called from “alopex,” a fox, “an animal very subject to the loss of its hair.”—(Idem, c. 34.) Mouse-dung, externally, “affections of the eyelids.”—(Idem, c. 37.) Poultry-dung as a liniment for short-sighted persons.—(Idem, c. 38.) “Peacocks swallow their dung, it is said, as though they envied man the various uses of it.”—(Idem.) Pigeon’s dung, externally, fistula.—(Idem.) Hawk-dung, turtle-dove dung, externally, “albugo.”—(Idem.) Pigeon’s dung, externally, imposthumes of the parotid gland.—(Lib. 29, 39.) Mouse-dung, raven’s dung, sparrow-dung. The ashes of these were plugged into carious teeth, and used externally for all tooth troubles.—(Lib. 30, c. 8.) Mouse-dung, good to impart sweetness to sour breath (idem, c. 9); also prescribed for the stone.—(Idem, c. 8.) “The dung of lambs before they have begun to graze ... alleviated ... affections of the uvula and pains in the fauces. It should be dried in the shade.”—(Idem, c. 11.) Pigeon’s dung used as a gargle for sore throat (idem); used internally for quinsy (idem, c. 12); internally for dysentery (idem, c. 19); and externally for the cure of “iliac passion.”—(Idem, c. 20.) Mouse-dung, rubbed on the abdomen, was considered to be a cure for urinary calculi.—(Idem, c. 21.) The flesh of a hedge-hog, killed before it had time to discharge its urine upon its body, was a cure for strangury; but, it would cause strangury if able to urinate upon itself before death.—(Idem, c. 21.) Dove-dung, internally, for urinary calculi.—(Idem.) Swallow-dung, as a suppository and purgative.—(Idem.) Dog-dung, externally, fissure in ano.—(Idem, c. 22.) Mouse-dung.—(Idem.) Pigeon’s dung, externally, in fissure in ano.—(Idem.) Mouse-dung and pigeon’s-dung, externally, for tumors.—(Idem.) Sheep and poultry dung, externally, in gout.—(Idem.) Ring-dove-dung, liniment for pains in the joints.—(Idem, c. 23.) The ashes of pigeon’s or of poultry dung, externally, for excoriations of the feet.—(Idem, c. 25.) Mule-urine, sheep and poultry dung, externally, for corns on feet.—(Idem.) Dog-urine, sheep and poultry dung, externally, for warts of all kinds.—(Idem.) Swallow-dung, internally, cure of fevers.—(Idem, c. 30.) Pigeon’s, poultry, and sheep dung, externally, boils and carbuncles.—(Idem, caps. 33, 34.)