Insomnia, donkey-dung, internally; gout and pigeon dung, externally. Human urine was also used for the same purpose (pp. 28, 29).
Vertigo. Pigeon, peacock, and squirrel dung, all used internally.
Dementia. Donkey-dung, externally.
Melancholia. Calf or ox dung, internally; owl-dung, externally.
Mania. Human ordure, internally; boy’s urine, internally, and also owl’s and chicken’s dung, internally.
Gout. Boy’s urine, externally, and owl’s, jenny’s, horse’s, cow’s, deer’s, and sow’s dung, externally.
Convulsions. Peacock and horse dung, externally.
Palsy. Let the patient wash with his own urine or that of a young boy (pp. 28, 29); administer peacock’s or horse’s dung internally.
For the cure of the dread disease, epilepsy, human ordure and the urine of boys were administered internally, and there were likewise internal applications of the dung of horses, peacocks, mice, dogs, black cows, lions, storks, and wild hogs; no external applications are noted for this disease (pp. 28, 29, 42, 43).
Another remedy for epilepsy was to take the excrements of a fine, healthy youth, dry them, and extract the oil by means of heat; rectify this oil and take inwardly (pp. 42, 43).