The head of a young Kite, being burnt to ashes and the quantity of a drachm of it taken every morning in a little water, is an admirable remedy against the gout.
Crab-eyes break the stone, and open stoppings of the bowels.
The lungs of a Fox, well dried, (but not burned) is an admirable strengthener to the lungs: see the Lohoch of Fox lungs.
The liver of a Duck, stops fluxes, and strengthens the liver exceedingly.
The liver of a Frog, being dried and eaten, helps quartan agues, or as the vulgar call them, third-day agues.
Castoreum resists poison, the bitings of venomous beasts; it provokes the menses, and brings forth birth and after-birth; it expels wind, eases pains and aches, convulsions, sighings, lethargies; the smell of it allays the fits of the mother; inwardly given, it helps tremblings, falling-sickness, and other such ill effects of the brain and nerves: A scruple is enough to take at a time, and indeed spirit of Castorium is better than Castorium, raw, to which I refer you.
A Sheep’s or Goat’s bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes.
A flayed Mouse dried and beaten into powder, and given at a time, helps such as cannot hold their water, or have a Diabetes, if you do the like three days together.
Ivory, or Elephant’s tooth, binds, stops the Whites, it strengthens the heart and stomach, helps the yellow jaundice, and makes women fruitful.
Those small bones which are found in the fore-feet of an Hare, being beaten into powder and drank in wine, powerfully provoke urine.