Erysipelas was treated with a poultice of human ordure (p. 762). “Oleum ex stercore distillatum” was also given internally (p. 762).
Cicatrices, small-pox pustules. Bathe with “aqua ex stercore distillata” (p. 760).
Gangrene, cured by application of warm ordure and urine (p. 763).
Dropsy; use “aqua ex stercore distillata” internally (p. 764).
Yellow jaundice, by human ordure drunk in wine (p. 764). Here he quotes Paullini, and others with whom we are already familiar.
Piles. Plaster of human ordure (p. 766). The same method of treatment for tumors (p. 777).
Ring-worm and other skin diseases. Use “oleum ex stercore” internally (p. 766).
Inflammation of the breasts of young mothers; local application of human ordure (p. 767).
Burns and scalds. “Aqua ex stercore” locally (p. 760). Inflammations, ditto (p. 766).