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
Uterine displacements. Human ordure, internally; the dung of falcons,
horses, or bulls, internally, or the dung of sows, donkeys, or sheep.
Human excrement was applied outwardly in treatment of falling of the
womb; this was also considered a good method of treating inflammation of
the vagina; stale urine and the steam of old socks, and asses’ dung, was
applied outwardly. The scrapings of chamber vessels was taken inwardly,
mixed with other ingredients (pp. 154, 155).
For menstrual troubles menstrual blood was administered internally;
the urine of boys, internally; the excreta of donkeys and rabbits,
both internally and externally; and those of hogs, rats, and horses,
externally.
For cessation of the menses. Take internally pulverized menses dried, and
wear a chemise smeared with human blood (most probably the chemise of a
woman who had been more fortunate in her purgation); or boil boys’ urine
and garlic together, and inhale the steam (p. 158).
Gout, rheumatism. The patient’s own urine, both internally and
externally; the urine of boys, externally; the dung of mice or rabbits,
internally; the excreta of cows, bulls, calves, donkeys, pigeons,
peacocks, storks, dogs, goats, or wild hogs, externally.
Another remedy for gout and rheumatism was the excreta of chickens, dogs,
or cocks, internally.
Tertiary fever. Human ordure and urine, internally; the excreta of sows,
donkeys, chickens, and swallows, and the white dung of dogs, internally.
Quaternary fever. The ordure of infants, internally; the urine of an old
woman, mixed with donkey-dung, externally; the dung of geese gathered in
May, of dogs, of sparrows, chickens, and sheep, internally; and cat-dung,
externally.
Malignant fevers. The urine of the patient, internally; the urine of a
jenny, internally; the dung of a red cow, of a reindeer, horse, sheep, or
goat, internally; no external applications in this case.
Antidotes for poisons. Human ordure internally, and human urine both
internally and externally; the excreta of hogs, ducks, swallows, goats,
calves, or chickens, internally; of pigeons, cows, sheep, donkeys, and
horses, externally.
Plague. Human ordure and urine, internally; bull-dung, internally; the
dung of cows, chickens, or pigeons, externally.
Syphilis and venereal diseases. Human urine, internally, also externally;
and the excreta of horses and dogs, externally.
Abscesses and sprains. The urine of boys, externally; the excreta of
cows, goats, dogs, pigeons, chickens, camels, geese, externally; or of
the wild hog, both internally and externally.
Boils. Human ordure and urine, externally; the dung of chickens, pigeons,
goats, dogs, cows, bulls, sheep, or foxes, externally.
Wounds. Human ordure and urine, externally; the excreta of dogs and
goats, internally; or of cows, pigeons, chickens, donkeys, and sheep,
externally.
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