The following are among many of the curious recipes given in the “Tragedy of the Gout,” written by Blambeauseant, in 1600:—
“Ther’s the odorous sheep’s dung, given always on the sly.”
“A little blue ointment, mixed with man’s ordure.”
“Virgin’s urine, as a cure for all the men in town.”
(“Medicine in the Middle Ages,” Minor, p. 88.)
Further references can be found in the following list, taken from the “Bibliotheca Scatalogica,” which likewise contains several of those from which citations have already been made.
“Cet emploi des stercora, et en particulier, de ceux de l’homme, pour les usages pharmaceutiques, est très réel. On nommait médecins stercoraires ceux qui les prescrivaient, et on dissimulait l’origine de la substance sous diverses dénominations bizarres ou ridicules (carbon humanum, oletum, sulphur occidentale). Suivant Paracelse, les excréments humains pouvaient par une certaine préparation, acquérir l’odeur du musc et de la civette; de là le nom qu’on leur donnait de civette ou musc occidental.”—(“Bib. Scat.,” p. 29.)
Ganin, De Simplic. Medicament. facultat. lib. x. fol. m. 75, seq. “An stercoris usus licitur? Conceditur.”—(No. 200 of the “Bib. Scat.,” p. 77.)
“202. Gufer, Joh. Medicin. domest. tab. 3, p. 11, et Joh. phil. Gieswein, De Mater. Medic. p. 292, imprimis laudant stercus hominis qui lupinos comedit.”—(Idem, p. 78.)
“203. Helvetius, Joh. Freder, Diribitor. med. p. 112, seq., recommande le stercus humanum recens et adhuc calidum.”—(Idem.)