Oysters applied alive to a pestilential swelling, draw the venom to them.
Crab-fish, burnt to ashes, and a dram of it taken every morning helps the bitings of mad dogs, and all other venomous beasts.
Swallows, being eaten, clear the sight, the ashes of them (being burnt) eaten, preserve from drunkenness, helps sore throats being applied to them, and inflammations.
Grass-hoppers, being eaten, ease the cholic, and pains in the bladder.
Hedge Sparrows, being kept in salt, or dried and eaten raw, are an admirable remedy for the stone.
Young Pigeons being eaten, help pains in the reins, and the disease called Tenesmus.
PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES, AND EXCREMENTS.
The brain of Sparrows being eaten, provokes lust exceedingly.
The brain of an Hare being roasted, helps trembling, it makes children breed teeth easily, their gums being rubbed with it, it also helps scald heads, and falling off of hair, the head being anointed with it.