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
Renal calculi. “Aqua ex stercore distillata” was given internally (p.
757). For cancers and malign ulcers, human ordure was used as a local
poultice; also given internally, in pills or powders. Pope Benedict was
cured of a cancer by this treatment (pp. 758, 759).
Epilepsy. Peacock-dung was used internally in conjunction with human
ordure (p. 762).
Erysipelas was treated with a poultice of human ordure (p. 762). “Oleum
ex stercore distillatum” was also given internally (p. 762).
Cicatrices, small-pox pustules. Bathe with “aqua ex stercore distillata”
(p. 760).
Gangrene, cured by application of warm ordure and urine (p. 763).
Dropsy; use “aqua ex stercore distillata” internally (p. 764).
Yellow jaundice, by human ordure drunk in wine (p. 764). Here he quotes
Paullini, and others with whom we are already familiar.
Piles. Plaster of human ordure (p. 766). The same method of treatment for
tumors (p. 777).
Ring-worm and other skin diseases. Use “oleum ex stercore” internally (p.
766).
Inflammation of the breasts of young mothers; local application of human
ordure (p. 767).
Burns and scalds. “Aqua ex stercore” locally (p. 760). Inflammations,
ditto (p. 766).
Dysentery. “Aqua ex stercore” internally (p. 761), quoting Paullini.
Empyematis. “Oleum ex stercore,” internally (p. 761).
Epilepsy. “Cured and prevented by excrement. infantis,” internally (p.
761).
For all fevers. Ordure, mixed with honey, internally, quoting Paullini
(pp. 762, 763).
Fistula in ano or in lachryma. Local application of human ordure (p. 763).
Birth-marks were effaced by a plaster of human ordure, or of meconium (p.
771).
Ophthalmia, cataract, etc. Human ordure, applied as a plaster. Also,
“aqua ex stercore distillata,” internally (p. 771).
Toothache. Plaster of human ordure, mixed with powdered chamomile
flowers, quoting Paullini (p. 772).
Œdema. Plaster of human ordure and of cow-dung (p. 772).
Felons. Plaster of human ordure. Also, one of the same, mixed with
assafœtida, quoting Paullini (p. 772).
Hysteria. Human ordure, drunk in wine (p. 773).
Bites of mad dogs, serpents, and all wild animals. Ordure, or “oleum ex
stercore distillatum,” or “aqua ex stercore distillata,” internally (pp.
767, 768).
In the island of Manilla, human ordure was held in such high estimation
as a remedy for the cure of the bites of all venomous animals, that it
was carried fresh, or dessicated, in little pyxes or pouches suspended
from the neck, ready for instant use. An example is given, on the
authority of a Franciscan friar, for years a missionary in that country,
of a man so bitten, and so near death that he could not open his mouth,
whose teeth were pried asunder, and this remedy inserted. He recovered
immediately.
Human ordure was also used internally, in Mexico, for the cure of serpent
bites, as we have learned previously from other sources. (p. 767.)
For worms in the head. “Oleum ex stercore distillatum,” applied locally
(p. 777).
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