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
Ring-worm, felons. Human ordure, externally; menstrual blood,
externally; the excreta of geese, cows, sows, cats, sheep, goats, or
chickens, externally.
Itch, freckles, rash, tetter, etc. Geese-dung, internally; the excreta of
donkeys, dogs, chickens, crocodiles, foxes, or pigeons, externally.
Loss of hair, lice. Human urine, externally; the excreta of pigeons,
cats, rats, mice, swallows, geese, rabbits, or goats, externally.
Gangrene. The urine of a virgin, externally; the white dung of chickens,
or horse-dung, externally.
Colds. Human ordure and urine, externally; the excreta of sheep, cows,
bulls, chickens, hogs, pigeons, or horses, externally.
Warts. The patient’s own urine, externally; the excreta of dogs, sheep,
camels, goats, cows, calves, or of a black dog, externally.
Fissure of the rectum, bunions, corns. The excreta of dogs, hogs, sheep,
pigeons, chickens, goats, mice, or of cows, gathered in May, externally.
Fistula. Human ordure, externally; the dung of dogs and mice, internally.
Yellow jaundice. Take internally the oil of human excrements, or drink
human urine for nine days (pp. 132, 133).
Bloody flux. Human excrements dried, taken internally, are of great
benefit (pp. 108, 109).
Insomnia. Take the “Spiritus Urinæ” internally.
Fits or spasms. Take the urine of young boys internally (pp. 28 and 29.)
“Take an old rusty piece of iron, be it a horse-shoe or anything else;
lay it on the fire until it be red-hot; then take it out of the fire
and let the patient make water upon it and take the fume thereof at his
nose and mouth, using this three days together, and it will cure him (of
yellow jaundice).”—(“The Poor Man’s Physician,” John Moncrief, Edinburgh,
1716, p. 174.)
“For running ulcers of the head ... bathe the whole head with old
urine.”—(Idem, p. 66.)
“To provoke flow of urine ... neat’s dung, mixt with honey, made hot,
applied to the share bone.”—(Idem, p. 133.)
For stone in bladder, “mouce-dung drunk.”—(Idem, p. 134.)
“The dung, flesh, and haire of a hare drunk.”—(Idem, p. 131.)
“Goat’s-dung drunk ... for the space of three days.” (Jaundice.)—(Idem,
p. 116.)
“Goat’s-dung, if drunk, brought back the catamenia.”—(Idem, p. 141.)
“Goose and hen dung, drunk with the best wine, miraculously cureth sudden
suffocations of the mother.”—(Idem, p. 144.)
“For a perverse or froward mother (i. e., womb), apply stinking smells to
the privities, and sweet smells to the nose.”—(Idem, pp. 144, 151.)
“For the squinsy ... take the dung of a hog, newly made and as hot as you
can get it, ... apply to the place, and it cureth.”—(Idem, p. 172.)
“For all imposthemes ... the dung of a goose which had first fasted
three days, and then fed on an eel before being killed,” was applied
externally.—(Idem, p. 180.)
“For swellings behind the ears, ... goat-dung, boiled,” was applied as a
plaster.—(Idem, p. 84.)
For boils, carbuncles, etc., “an emplaister made of the dung of a peacock
cureth faithfully.”—(Idem, p. 163.)
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