ABSTRACT
There is allo another excellent medicine for the curing of the Shrew, which Startonicus himfelf doth much commend, which is this: T o lance or fcarifie the wound affoon as it is bitten, but efpecially if it be compaffed with an inflammation, afterwards to fprinkle Salt and Vinegar upon it, then to encourage or provoke the Beaft the next day following by fome fweet water or liquor to run or go fome little Journey, firft having anointed the fore with Fullers-earth, being beaten fmall and mixed with Vinegar, and then daily to nourifh or bathe it with water which cometh from bathes where fome have wafhed themfelves, and this in very fhort time being fo ufed, will very well
Hierocles. and altogether cure the Beaft. Againft the biting of a Shrew Garlick is accounted for an excellent remedy being mingled with Nitre; but if there fhall be no Nitre to be had, mix it with Salt and Cumin, then to dry and beat them al together into powder, and with the fame to rub the places which are infeded with the biting : but if the venemous wounds do chance to break ; then to take Barly being fcorched or burned, and pound it into fmall powder, and fteep it in Vinegar, and afterwards to fprinkle it into the wound: This medicine Felagon affirmeth, will only heal the bites of a Shrew, and that the grief of the fore, by the ufe of any other medicines doth rather encreafe, then decreafe,
Vegetius. The flowre which is made of red Wheat, the herb called Dill,the liquor or Rozen which runneth out of the great Cedar, and two pound of the beft Wine, being mingled all together, given in a potion, and poured down the throat of any labouring Beaft which is bitten by a Shrew, will prefently eafe and cure him of his pain.
