Fistula. Human ordure, externally; the dung of dogs and mice, internally.
Yellow jaundice. Take internally the oil of human excrements, or drink human urine for nine days (pp. 132, 133).
Bloody flux. Human excrements dried, taken internally, are of great benefit (pp. 108, 109).
Insomnia. Take the “Spiritus Urinæ” internally.
Fits or spasms. Take the urine of young boys internally (pp. 28 and 29.)
“Take an old rusty piece of iron, be it a horse-shoe or anything else; lay it on the fire until it be red-hot; then take it out of the fire and let the patient make water upon it and take the fume thereof at his nose and mouth, using this three days together, and it will cure him (of yellow jaundice).”—(“The Poor Man’s Physician,” John Moncrief, Edinburgh, 1716, p. 174.)
“For running ulcers of the head ... bathe the whole head with old urine.”—(Idem, p. 66.)
“To provoke flow of urine ... neat’s dung, mixt with honey, made hot, applied to the share bone.”—(Idem, p. 133.)
For stone in bladder, “mouce-dung drunk.”—(Idem, p. 134.)
“The dung, flesh, and haire of a hare drunk.”—(Idem, p. 131.)