Hare-dung was administered internally in calculus and dysentery, and externally for burns.
Hare-urine was applied in ear troubles.
Wolf-dung was found efficacious, taken internally, in colic.
Musk was frequently given, mixed with zibethum, as a carminative; also as a nervine and a cardiac.
Mouse-dung found its advocates as a remedy, given internally, in the constipation of children, calculi, used in enemata.
The internal administration of rat-dung removed catamenial obstructions.
Mouse-dung was styled “album nigrum;” dog-dung, “album Græcum.”
Sheep-dung was administered internally in yellow jaundice; “maximi usus in aurigine, sumptum cum petroselino” (rock-parsley),—while, externally, it was applied to hard tumors, swellings, boils, burns, etc.
The urine of red or black sheep was given internally in dropsy. “Urina (nigræ vel rubræ ovis) sumpta, aquam inter cutem abigit.” The dose was from five to six ounces.