[2771] See B. iv. c. 23, B. viii. c. 59, and cc. 15 and 43 of the present Book.
[2772] “Smegma.”
[2773] See B. xx. c. 2.
[2774] No very great obligation, apparently.
[2775] See B. x. c. 49.
[2776] “Riparia.”
[2777] The only birds’ nests that are now taken internally are the soutton bourong, or, edible birds’ nests, of the Chinese.
[2778] See B. xxix. c. 39.
[2779] Marcus Empiricus says that the heart must be enclosed in a silver lupine and worn suspended from the neck, being efficacious for scrofula both in males and females. The silver lupine was probably what we should call a “locket.”
[2780] “The bull.” Dalechamps takes this to be the stag-beetle or bull-fly; but that, as Ajasson remarks, has four horns, two antennæ, and two large mandibules; in addition to which, from its size, it would hardly be called the “earth-louse.” He concludes that a lamellicorn is meant; but whether belonging to the Lucanidæ or the Scarabæidæ, it is impossible to say.