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
A youth in Leyden fell madly in love with a young girl, but could not get
the consent of his parents to marry her. He was seized with a violent
fever and constipation. In this desperate condition he imagined that a
drink of fresh urine from his beloved would benefit him; he accordingly
wrote to her, begging her to satisfy his longing, which she accordingly
granted, and after drinking of the beverage to his heart’s content, he
found immediate relief (whether from the constipation or the passion
Paullini neglects to state).—(Paullini, pp. 106, 107.)
Abnormal appetite. The same remedies as are enumerated for colic, q. v.
Worms. The patient’s own urine, internally; the dung of horses or cows or
hogs, internally.
Hernia. Rabbit-dung, internally.
Sciatica. External application of the dung of goats, pigeons, horses, or
chickens.
Constipation. Human ordure, internally; human urine, internally; or the
excreta of sows, mice, chickens, geese, sparrows, magpies, or pigeons
internally.
Diarrhœa. Dog-dung, internally; sow, donkey, or cow dung, externally.
Dysentery. The patient’s own ordure or that of a boy, internally; human
urine, internally; or the excreta of dogs, horses, hogs, crows, rabbits,
donkeys, mules, or elephants, internally.
Obstructions of the liver. Salts of urine, internally; or the dung of
geese, swallows, or deer, internally.
Dropsy. Human ordure, internally; the patient’s own urine or that of a
boy, internally; or external applications of dung of geese, chickens,
goats, donkeys, dogs, deer, horses, or sheep, internally.
Kidney troubles. Human urine, both internally and externally; goose-dung,
internally; sheep-dung, externally; donkey or deer dung, internally.
Kidney diseases, stone in the bladder. Take internally human urine or
water, distilled over human ordure, or the dried catamenia of women, or
the scrapings of chamber-pots taken in brandy.—(Paullini, pp. 142, 143.)
Gravel. The patient’s own urine, internally; or the dung of pigeons,
rats, chickens, mice, wild hogs, or donkeys, both internally and
externally.
Excessive urination. The dung of goats, mice, or wild hog, internally.
Difficult urination. The urine of a girl, internally; the urine of
the patient, both internally and externally; the dung of sparrows,
internally; or the dung of donkeys, goats, chickens, geese, roosters, or
pigeons, externally.
Impaired virility and swelling of the testicles. The dung of prairie
hens, or that of sparrows, internally; or the dung of rabbits, bulls,
cows, or goats, externally.
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