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
Cataract. Make an external application of human ordure, of boy’s urine,
or of the dung of wolves, green lizards, or geese.
Earache or ringing in the ear, or abscesses. Apply the urine of young
boys mixed with honey, or apply fresh human urine.
Other ear troubles. External application of boy’s urine or of the
patient’s own urine; external application of the dung of the white goat,
or pigeon’s, cat’s, deer’s, rabbit’s, jenny’s, wild hog’s or wolf’s dung.
Bleeding at the nose. External application of dog’s urine, of horse
urine, or of the dung of calf, donkey, hog, cow, horse, camel, or rabbit.
Nasal polypi. Dung of dog or donkey, externally.
Toothache or carious teeth. One’s own ordure, or the dung of wolf, dog,
raven, mouse, or horse, in all cases externally (pp. 52, 53).
Toothache. Apply a poultice of human excrement, mixed with
camomile-flowers, to the cheek.
Dropsy of the head. Take boy’s urine internally.
Croup and throat troubles generally. Boy’s urine, both internally and
externally; a gargle and a potion of one’s own urine; and both internal
and external applications of the white dung of dogs, gathered in July; or
the dung of geese, pigeons, eagles, goats, owls, hens, or wolves.
Asthmatic troubles. Salts of urine or pigeon’s dung, externally.
Coughs. The dung of dogs, internally, or the dung of geese; the dung of
ravens, deer, or sparrows, externally.
Spitting of blood. The excreta of wild sows, doves, sheep, cows, horses,
mice, dogs, or peacocks, internally.
Consumption. The patient’s ordure, internally; his own or a boy’s urine,
or mice-dung, internally (pp. 74, 75).
Another remedy for consumption was to let the patient drink a mixture of
his own urine beaten up with fresh egg; repeat for several successive
mornings; also, let him eat his own excrement (pp. 74, 76).
For pleurisy, we read that there was an external application of the
patient’s own urine, or that the dung of donkeys, horses, stallions,
mares, hens, pigeons, and dogs was given internally.
Fainting-spells. Human ordure, externally; one’s own urine, internally;
cow-urine or the dung of horses, sheep, or birds, externally.
Diseases of the mammary glands. The dung of cows or mice, internally, and
also an external application of that of oxen, goats, hogs, dogs, cows, or
pigeons.
Cancer of the breast. The patient’s own ordure internally, with external
applications of the dung of geese, cows, goats, or rabbits.
Wens. External applications of the dung of cows, rats, mice, goats,
sheep, geese, pigeons, or jennies.
Colic. Human ordure, internally; “Eau de Millefleurs,” internally (we
know that “Eau de Millefleurs” was itself a composition of cow-dung);
take bees internally (the only instance recorded of such a use of this
insect), or the dung of horses, cats, swallows, or chickens, externally.
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