“In the south of Hampshire a plaster of warm cow-dung is applied to open wounds.”—(Idem, p. 161.) “Water of cow-dung,” collected in May and June, used as a purge by people in England.—(Southey, “Commonplace Book,” p. 554.) On the same page he says that “man’s excrement which had been some days discharged, thinned with so much ale,” was given to horses with the blind staggers,—“a common experiment.”—(Idem.) A poultice of pigeon’s dung and pounded rose-leaves was in use for a stitch in the side.—(Southey, “The Doctor,” London, 1848, p. 59.) Swine’s dung as a remedy for dysentery in Ireland, alluded to in terms of high approval by Borlase, quoted by Southey in “Commonplace Book,” p. 149. Hon. E. W. P. Smith, secretary of the United States Legation in the Republic of Colombia, South America, states that among the San Blas Indians of that country, and the lower classes generally, the patient’s own urine is applied warm for sore eyes. Mrs. Fanny D. Bergen, of Cambridge, Mass., has for some years devoted time and intelligent study to the acquisition of data bearing upon the superstitions connected with the human saliva. While making this valuable and curious collection she has also been fortunate enough to encounter much relating to kindred superstitions, and has very generously placed at the disposal of the author of this volume all that related to the employment of human and animal egestæ. Urine a cure for chapped hands, on Deer Isle. Urinate into your shoe to keep it from squeaking, on Deer Isle. Sheep-dung tea, a cure for measles, is extensively used on Deer Isle. Boys urinate on their legs to prevent cramp. This practice was common in eastern Maine twenty to thirty years ago. Water standing in the depressions of cow-dung was formerly recommended as a certain cure for pulmonary consumption, in New York. Oil tried from the penis of the hog and applied to the loins of a child suffering from weakness of kidneys or bladder cured such diseases, in northern parts of the United States and in parts of Nova Scotia. One’s own urine was administered for gravel in Staffordshire, England, within the past ten years.