Hen-dung believed to be almost a specific against the effects of poisonous mushrooms; it was to be drunk in wine.
Stork-dung was another remedy for epilepsy; it was also to be drunk in wine.
Vulture-dung expelled the fœtus; mouse-dung expelled calculi.
Hen-dung, especially that laid during the dog-days, was good for dysentery.
Fresh human ordure was applied to inflamed wounds, and as a plaster in angina; dog-dung was also used in such cases.
Crocodile-excrement was in high repute as a cosmetic. (See “Cosmetics.”) Purchasers were warned that it was frequently adulterated with the excrement of starlings fed on rice.
The urine of the patient himself should be drunk in cases of serpent bites, poisons from drugs, bites of scorpions, mad dogs, etc. For old ulcers, cicatrices, “lepras,” an excellent application; also for ulcerations in the genitalia, sores in the ears, etc.
The urine of an undefiled boy was highly commended for various purposes, especially when triturated with honey in a brass mortar.
The “sediment of urine” (see “Mangeurs de Blanc”) was regarded as of great value in erysipelas. Bull’s urine was given for the cure of ulcerated ears.