Poultry-dung, good as an application for the sting of the scorpion.—(Idem, c. 29.)
“The dung of poultry, provided it is of a red color, is very useful, applied with vinegar.” Also for bite of a mad dog.—(Idem, c. 32.)
The urine of a mad dog was believed to be injurious to those people who trod upon it, especially those persons with scrofulous sores.—(Idem.)
“The proper remedy in such cases is to apply horse-dung.”—(Idem.)
“Whoever makes water where a dog has previously watered, will be susceptible of numbness in the loins.”—(Idem, c. 32.)
“Poultry-dung, but the white part only, ... is an excellent antidote to the poison of fungi and mushrooms; it is a cure also for flatulence and suffocations,—a thing the more to be wondered at, seeing that if any living creature only tastes this dung, it is immediately attacked with griping pains and flatulency.”—(Idem, c. 33.)
“The dung of wood pigeons ... an antidote to quicksilver.”—(Idem.)
Sheep-dung, mouse-dung, poultry-dung, applied externally in the treatment of baldness or “alopœcia,” so called from “alopex,” a fox, “an animal very subject to the loss of its hair.”—(Idem, c. 34.)
Mouse-dung, externally, “affections of the eyelids.”—(Idem, c. 37.)
Poultry-dung as a liniment for short-sighted persons.—(Idem, c. 38.)