Cancer of the breast. The patient’s own ordure internally, with external applications of the dung of geese, cows, goats, or rabbits.
Wens. External applications of the dung of cows, rats, mice, goats, sheep, geese, pigeons, or jennies.
Colic. Human ordure, internally; “Eau de Millefleurs,” internally (we know that “Eau de Millefleurs” was itself a composition of cow-dung); take bees internally (the only instance recorded of such a use of this insect), or the dung of horses, cats, swallows, or chickens, externally.
A youth in Leyden fell madly in love with a young girl, but could not get the consent of his parents to marry her. He was seized with a violent fever and constipation. In this desperate condition he imagined that a drink of fresh urine from his beloved would benefit him; he accordingly wrote to her, begging her to satisfy his longing, which she accordingly granted, and after drinking of the beverage to his heart’s content, he found immediate relief (whether from the constipation or the passion Paullini neglects to state).—(Paullini, pp. 106, 107.)
Abnormal appetite. The same remedies as are enumerated for colic, q. v.
Worms. The patient’s own urine, internally; the dung of horses or cows or hogs, internally.
Hernia. Rabbit-dung, internally.
Sciatica. External application of the dung of goats, pigeons, horses, or chickens.
Constipation. Human ordure, internally; human urine, internally; or the excreta of sows, mice, chickens, geese, sparrows, magpies, or pigeons internally.
Diarrhœa. Dog-dung, internally; sow, donkey, or cow dung, externally.