swound howle bark snarle and apprehend strange phansies rage and the like it is past remedy And all medecines will prove ineffectuall Dying sooner or later as the symptomes are more or less prevalent and apparent as Delirium want of sleepe Convulsions c. And if the Hickop take them they for the most part dye the next Day after but many times that same Day However an assured token it is that Death is at hand If the wound or bite be not deepe or have offended the Nerves Veines or Aâ—teries there is more hope of life provided present help be administred If the wound be large some think it a greater sign of health then when the wound is the smaller because it thereby is more capable of evacuating much of the venemous matter The which if it aboundantly evacuate or send forth much blood thereby when it is first made or afterwards when it is curing or the Body of its own accord sweat freely and in any quantity emit much Urine and it black they are very good signes all of health if Rhasis and Avicenna may be credited The same Avicenna likewise affirmeth that it is a good sign if he be afraid of water which by most is thought a token of death provided he can behold his face in a glass But these Aphorismes are not infallible for we see that Philosopher in Aetius before quoted was cured by Drinking and Ducking himself in the Bath notwithstanding he feared the Dogg that bit him was in the water other examples you may find in the writings of the Learned contradicting most of the other assertions likewise which for brevities sake I willingly pretermit Wherefore then as touching the Cure in generall not only of this venemous infection but of all other wounds received by the biting of Serpents or any other poysonous Creature whatsoever There are 2 things principally to be considered First when any one is bit Of the Cure in generall of the bite of a Mad Dogg Serpent or other venamous Creature or any other wayes infected to prevent the raging raving madnesse And Secondly when they are therewith Captivated to cure as much as in Art is possible to be done In the former of these there are three things a Physician must be carefull to perform 1. That the Poyson may be hindred from entring into the Body and not only so but that it be also drawn forth of the wound or part affected and expelled 2. That the Poyson be hindred from spreading and delating it self or entring into the inward parts and principall members And the parts rather corroborated and fortified against it 3. That the Poyson and the malignity thereof be extinguished The first of these is performed by Ligatures if the part be such as will admit of them having a care that it be not bound too hard And if it may not by any means be tyed about the best way is to apply restringent medecines such as are Bolus Armenus Belaustia Sanguis Draconis cum ovi albumine vicinis locis imponenda c. Attrahentia sunt varia quidem sunt calida sicca in secundo gradu quae moderate attrahunt Alia vero in tertio quae magis Alia etiam in quarto quae maximè attrahâ—nt ardore Câ—tem in tumâ—ore attolunt ac rubore suffundum Tand inque vesicas excitant Talia sunt Cylamini Radices Aristolâ—chiae Dracuaculi Anâ—mones Gentianae Ranunculi Ari Narcissi Pyrethri Arundines Thâ—psiae Vriâ—a Flammula Seinen Sinapis Allium Caepe Nasturtii Fermentum Anacardia Gummi Galbanum Opopanax Ammoniatum Sagapenum â—iae sicca Propolis Cantharides fimus Anscrinus Gallinaceus Columbrinus c. Qâ—ibus Câ—mmode admiscetur Theriaca Vâ—ile est â—mplastrum v l Cataplasma De Angelica Commendatur plurimum ex Dioscoride dâ—sumptâ—m sapecum felici successu usurpatur ex Allio Caepis semine Tritici masticâ—to paratum Galenus Lib. 2. De Antidot Cap. 11. Commendat valde emplastrum paratum ex Picâ— Opopanate Aceto sic â„ž Picis Lâ—b j. Aâ—eti Acerâ—â—m Lib. j. â„¥ viij oppopanac â„¥ iij opopona â—prius in Cyathis 4. Aceti dusolvitur Acetum quod suprest cum Pice coqâ—itur et coquuntur â—avendo ne efferveant ser biâ—queâ—cem G. l nâ—s se neminem vidisse quo ino usâ—s moâ—u â—s sit In Lib. iâ—eâ— De 〈◊〉 a Ad Pâ—s num etiam cum felici successu Thâ—rinaâ— câ—m ol Rosar liquatam imponi testatur Aetius Tetr 3. Serm Cap. 10. Hoc laudat â„ž Spum Argent Ceruss resin Pini An. Lib. j. ol veter Lib. iij. â„¥ vij Amononiat Thymiam Galban An. â„¥ iiij Cerussae Argenti spumam ol Coquito donec manus non inquinent deinde liquefacta adducito unito Laudatur et emplastrum Diadictamnum quod Galenus Lib. 5. De Compositione medicamentorum secundum genera Cap. 4. Sic describit â„ž olei veteris heminas ij Lythargyri Ê’ij aeruginis rasae Ê’viij Squammae Ê’vi Colophoniae liquidae Ê’j manuae Ê’xij Ammoniaci Thymiamatis Ê’xxvj aeris Combusti Ê’viij Diphrygis Ê’vj Gentianae tantundem Aloes Ê’viij Galbani Ê’xij Propolis Ê’viij Cerae Ê’xxv Aristolochiae Ê’x Dictamni Cretici tantundem Conficito accuratissimè Capivaccius Lib. 7. Pract. Cap. 12. sequens commendat â„ž Ciner Cancr fluviat Allii Menthae Gentianae Aristolochiae Rotundae Ana. Ê’ij Baccar Lauri Boli Armenij Ana. Ê’j Misce cum succo Menthae q s Fiat Emplastrum vel potius Cataplasma Those and such like medecines may be fitly applyed to attract and draw out the venome or the same may be used as is requisite in the second Rule viz. which hinder the Poyson from diffusing and penetrating the Body Vt Si partis conditio ferat Cucurbitulae imponantur et quidem cum magna flamma venenum immissum extrahatur Et si vulnus sit exiguum scarificari debet et quidem si aliquod temporis spatium a morsu praeterlapsum sit saepius adhibendae sunt et partibus vicinis altiora vulnera inftigenda Sed vulnus antea si satis sit magnum non opus est scarificationes adhibere ne inflammatio excitetur quae postea impediat quo minus alia remedia quae venenum evocant adhiberi possint Si verò pars sit ut Cucurbitulae commodè affigi non possint scarificatio sola adhibenda ut sanguis effluat qui sicca spongia è vulneriâ—us exsugendus non verò vulnus aqua abluendum id est fontana sed potius cum Aqua Marina aut Vrina vel Aqua Vitae aut vino vel Aceto in quo Theriac aut Sinap fuerit Dissolut Et sic vulnus diu apertum servandum est non solum usque ad diem quadrà gessimum sed per integrii annum praesertim in morsu Canis Rabid Cum observatum sit ut antea dictum quosdam à rabidis Canibus morsos etiam post annum imò etiam longius temporis spatium in Hydrophobiam incidisse Licet etiam Animalia viva ut
16. Nat. Hist Cap. 10. will have it the Juice of the Tree called Taxus or Yew and that thence therefore it had its name But whether it be any of these or the tree Gaâ—acum or those other bearing fruit as Thevetus records Cap. 61. Lib. Sing Idem T. 1. Cosm Lib. 10. Cap. 3. in the Indies about the bigness of a tennis-ball the Juyce of which they affirm the Indians to dip their Darts in or some other I shall not adventure to presume to determine where so many Learned Men have been obscure or at least not clear It is so deadly and piercing a Poyson that it is immedicable killing even with the very touch Wherefore I willingly omit what others have affirmed in that particular To these Juyces I may well add besides Leekes and Lettice before named the Juyce of Mandrake and of Hemlock Half a Drachm of the former being enough to kill any one And the latter being reputed the death of * Plato in Phaedon SOCRATES that famous Pilosopher Their Cure is the same with the Roote any Hearb before treated of There may likewise hereunto also be annexed Mel Venenatum Poysoned Hony for so it often happens to be as appears by that of Galen Lib. 10. De simplic medicament facultat circa initium according as Schenkins and Sennertus quote as also that of Pliny Lib. 21. Cap. 14. Nat. Hist being gathered by the Bees Of Poysoned Hony and its Antidotes from poysonous Flowers c. And Rhodiginus Cap. 35.25 Tells us of Hony coming out of Box in Pontus that makes such as eat it stark mad Others again he records Cap. 30.18 that immediately kills being poysoned by the place in which it was made As soon as ever it is eaten any manner of way or drank in liquor it is in the Mouth and to the Tongue and Palate very sweete and pleasant But immediately after disturbes the Head causing it to be dull Vertiginous and filled with Chymeraes as also Deliriums tremblings aboundantly hinders respiration making grievous paines in the sides Breasts as also gnawings in the Intestines and aboundance of Wind an universall trembling over the whole Body and if speedy remedy be not administred Death it self seiseth on them Its Cures are the same with Aconitum before mentioned Lastly to conclude this Class touching Poysons belonging to Vegetables I may add that meanest and most unworthy of all vegetables Mushromes which although some are ventured on as food by Fanatick brains Yet others are poysonous and all pernicious Nay and none of them sit for food Whence Seneca did well term them a voluptuous Poyson Of Mushroomes and their Antidotes Pliny Ancipitem Ciâ—um Lib. 22. Cap. 23. Nat. Hist Destroying whole Families at a repast Claudius Caesar as Suetonius records was destroyed by them And Cardan Lib. 3. De Sanitat Tuend Cap. 47. Reckons up I know not how many more that lost their lives by this fantasticall food Those are the worst and most poysonous which as Avicenna notes are grayish or of a blewish colour which some think are not only mortall being eaten but destructive also to such as do but smell unto them And the reason is either 1. Because they are naturally nothing else but a bundle of cold moist and viscous vapours and matter of the Earth or Trees on which they grow Or 2. In that they are very apt to attract and suck in all manner of poyson from Toades Spiders and other noxious Creatures that do or may converse about them Whence such as eat them or such as are naught or those that are good in too great a quatity are as it were suffocated strangled or choakt having their naturall heat extinguished filling their bellies with wind causing the Hiccop exulcerating the Intralls and Bowells and bringing an universall palenesse over the whole Body and sometimes causeth madnesse an example of one thus affected Petrus Forestus hath Lib. 10. Observat Med. Observat 116. in Scholio of a Woman so affected by eating this trash only Likewise in the same place he tells us of a young Gentlewoman about Eighteen years of age quae in Convulsione qb â—utero ex fungis Comestis incidebat Lying so Convulst staring in a most horrible manner Continuing thus in her fit for six Dayes together c. It brings likewise Sownding â—its Cold Sweats â—alling-sicknesse and deepe sleepe Nay and Death it self as you have heard The which every Physician Confirmes Malignitati verò hujus veneni resistunt Calamintha Montana Origanum Hysopus Ruta Nasturtium Absynthium Allium Aristoloch Laudantur et Theriaca vel Mithridatium cum Oxymelite simplici vel scillitico exhibitum ut et species Diatrion Piperion Diacalaminthae Diamosci Diacymini Diagalanga Ê’j pondere cum vino generoso Tribus Diebus Continuis exhibitae c. And thus much briefly shall suffice to be spoken Of Poysons belonging to Vegetables OF POYSONS belonging to ANIMALLS CLASSE III. THus having spoken of Poysons belonging to Mineralls as also to Vegetables It resteth according to my promise I speak also to Animalls which may be divided into these severall rankes As being either 1. Of Beasts Or 2. Of Flying Creatures Or 3. Of Serpents Or 4. Of Fishes Or 5. Of Creeping things Of all which there are divers sorts As 1. Of BEASTS 1. Doggs 2. Cats 3. Woolses 4. Mus Araneus 5. Taurus 6. Vacca 2. Of FLYING CREATVRES 1. Cantharides 2. Apis 3. Vespus 3. Of SERPENTS 1. Draco 2. Crocodilus 3. Scorpio 4. Baziliseus 5. Salamandra 6. Vipera 7. Dryinus 8. Stellio 9. Aspis 10. Natrix 11. Haemorrhous 12. Sepedon 13. Cerastes 14. Dipsas 15. Amphysbaenas Sytate 16. Cenchris 17. Lacerta 4. Of FISHES 1. Torpedo 2. Draco Marinus 3. Pastinaca Marina 4. Canis Marinus 5. Lepus Marinus 6. Scorpio Marinus 7. Muraena 5. Of CREEPING THINGS or INSECTS 1. Scolopendra 2. Hirudo 3. Rubeta 4. Aranenus 5. Pini Erucae Of all which in order one word as I have done of other Poysons and so Conclude DIVISION I. Of Poysons belonging to Four-Footed-Beasts SECTION I. Of the biting of Mad-Doggs and the Antidotes AND First of such poysons as Four-Footed-Beasts yeild unto us Among which Doggs offer themselves in the first place to our Consideration Which Creatures in regard they are more subject to madnesse oftentimes then others and a raving kind of distemper and foaming at the mouth Do by biting or their venemous foame convey the same raging fury to Man or Beast which they wound As also severall other wayes as you may see beneath Of this Creature therefore I say we shall chiefly insist as touching the madnesse of Horses Asses Mules Beares Foxes and the rest which are not so subject to madnesse or so frequently raging or perhaps never unless it be unto them conveyed by the bite foame or other manner from these Doggs or Woolfes I shall refer thee to Bauchinus who hath written an whole Tract of them With him you may also consult Avicennas 6. quarti Tract 4.
who was thus affected by the ardent venemous and fierce aspect of a Mad Dogg earnestly looking him in the face neither biting or touching him any manner of way And this Poyson doth sometimes manifest it self sooner sometimes again later for what reason we are as yet left in the dark neither is the time exactly known when the effects begin to manifest themselves some say within a Week others nine or Fourteen dayes after A third sort say about the seventeenth or twentieth but most hold Of the time when the efects appears about the thirtieth or fortieth day after the bite Nay and sometimes there is no sign of it till 4. Moneths after as Galen holdes As also Codronchus Baldus the great Lawyer as Paraeus notes Lib. 21. De venenis Cap. 14. Dyed foure Moneths after he was bitten some not till the 6. or 8. Moneth or a year as others will Albertus Magnus De Hist Animal Lib. 7. Cap. 2. Sayes he saw a man that was bitten with a Mad Dogg in the Arm and yet was well for seven years after which the place be gan to be inflamed and so within two day dyed And Fracastorius sayes five years but Gnianerius twelve years Amatus Lucitanus gives instances of eight moneths and of three years But Petrus Salius of five seven and twelve years As also eighteen years Nay and Alsaharavius attests he knew one that lived 40. years before he was apparently infected I shall not presume to correct so worthy so learned Whether that Poyson which causeth this madness may be generated in Mans Body so able Physicians as these are which thus affirm but I may acknowledge my self ignorant in the reason hereof without prejudicing any man as also take that liberty as to think my pleasure and not conclude with all I heare especially since there are so many poysons that may accidentally interveane and be eaten unawares that may cause Death in such a manner as will be very difficult to determine whether was the Interficient dosse And so as some think There be many posons which being taken will kill at such or such certain times after Qua de re consule Galeotum De promiscua disciplina Cap. 12. Iobertum paradoxo 3. Lib. 27. Amatum Lucitanum Cant. 2. Curat 65. Julium Alexandrinum Annotat. Ad Galenum 680. Cardanum Lib. 2. Tract 5. Contradict 9. et de subtilitate Lib. 2. Mercurialem De venenis Lib. 1. Cap. 21. Francisc Valeriolam loc Commun Pag. 633. Vidum Vidium Tom. 2. Pag. 13. And Baccium Lib. 1. De venenoruns prolegomenis c. But as to this Tenet we spake our opinion in Part. 1. Sect. 4. Besides the same Poyson and venemous matter of which this madness ariseth may be generated in the Bodies of Men and Women without any infection from Doggs at all To this purpose Marcellus Donatus De Historia medica mirabili Lib. 6. Cap. 1. De Hydrophobia mira affectio gives us five severall examples of such as were so affected and fallen into the disease called Hydrophobia without the least communication of the said venome from any Dogg or thing but purely from some innate seeds thereof inherent in themselves Likewise the same aforequoted Petrus Salius De affect Partic. Cap. 19. Hath such an other instance So hath Felix Paterus obser Med. Lib. 1. Touching the nature and temperature of this Poyson many arguments are among the Learned Some maintaining it to be Hot others Cold with Enstathius Rudins Lib. 4. De Morbis occultis Cap. 12. who labours by severall arguments to maintain this Paradox But the most Rationall and Learned are of the contrary Judgement affirming it to be Hot and Dry of quality As Fuchsius Fernelius Sennertus c. Hildesheim Speciel 2. Confirms it by severall examples in such as have been infectected by the bite of Mad Doggs and dying madd being opened had no water or blood scarce or any other moisture left in them And Capivaccius Fract med Lib. 7. Cap. 12. Concludes it not only Hot but Hot in the fourth Degree which from his own experience in a certain Monck whose Body being defected dying in this sort of madness from the bite of a Dogg He observed these three things clearly evincing the truth therof First that there was no moisture in the Pericardion in the least but all wasted and dryed up by the fiery Poyson Secondly the Cells or Ventricles of the Heart were dry and destitute of blood Thirdly That some part of the Pericardiâ— on was so dry scorcht and burnt up that it was fit to be pulverized Besides their inordinate Draught evinceth putting the matter quite out of Doubt and makes it evidently appear to be Hot. And yet notwithstanding they will rather choose to Dye then Drink out of a peculiar inherent property or occult quality which as yet to tell you the truth is not known to Physicians and Philosophers even as they who are bitten with the spider Tarantula as you will hear beneath are in more ease Of the nature of this Poyson and why such as are affected abhor water and all other liquid things pleasant merry and Dance when they hear Musick nay and are oftentimes cured thereby And those who have eaten of the Sea Hare abhor all Fish So I say doth they who are infected by the bite of a Mad Dogg or otherwayes from an occult quality in the Poyson naturally abhor all water whence by the Ancients as Dodonaeus obs medicinal Cap. 12. notes it had it's Denomination Hydrophobia And that it is thus Rhasis hath a notable story to this effect Lib. 8. Ad Almansoar Cap. 10. we had once a patient in an Hospitall affected with that Disease called Hydrophobia by the biting of a Mad Dogg who whould usually bark in the night time Calling often very earnestly for Drink especially water out of the extremity of his Drought But when we gave him Water he abominated and rejected it saying it was full of filth and pollution And being demanded what filth he saw there He replyed the intralls and garbidge of Doggs and Catts intreating he might have some other Water brought him So accordingly other Water was fetcht But as before he continued in the same story and began to be angry Beseeching us earnestly that we would let him have some clear good Water So that hence we may Collect that this may likewise proceed from some Depravation of the Phansie the Brain being principally the part affected in this Disease as all Physicians unanimously agree And it being incident to all who are therewith infected to have the representation of a Dogg ever in their minds and therefore shun Looking-glasses Polite Bodies and Water because they imagine they see a Dogg in it of which examples are frequent in Authours And not only of Water are they thus afraid but of all other liquours and Drinks whatsoever as the same Dodonaeus loco aligato observes So doth Vidus Vidius Part. 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 6. Medecine Illustrating the truth
with intollerable paines and gripings in the bowells frequent vomitings of Choler the stomach is affected with Hickops the Head with vertiginous and unusuall paines the nose with eruption of blood the bladder and ureters with suppressions and obstructions so that there is but little emission of urine The Lungs with difficulty of breathing The Heart with faintings and swoundings The whole Body in a word with a burning feaver tremblings and cold sweats And lastly if not timely prevented with Death it self Especially if the patient bleed at nose his hands grow cold his nailes pale his lips greenish if he tremble over all his Body be molested with sownding fits If the wound be large in summer time and in an hot Country for it is thought they are more poysonous in such places then in others or given when the Viper was inraged or angry c. You may assuredly conclude Death to be at hand and that the patient will not live long sometimes within seven hours time after they seldom linger out to the third day Nay the same Brasavola in loco allegato tells us he saw one that dyed by the bite of a Viper within three hours after And Ambrosius â—araeus Lib. 21. De Venenis Cap. 16. records out of Mathiolus a remarkable story of a Country man who as he was mowing a meadow by chance cut an Adder in two with his sythe which perceiving and thinking it to be slain took up that end on which was the head in his hand fearing nothing but the enraged Creature turning about its head bit him by the finger the which he immediately clapt into his Mouth as the unadvised Custom of Men is to do if ought hurt them and sucking out the blood Immediately fell down dead-Such an other story is to be found in Amatus Lucitanus which Gesner of Serpents Schenckius of poysons and others record A certain boy seeing a Viper or Adder in the fields boasted to his Companions he could take it up in his hand and receive no hurt but they not believing of it or telling him he durst not the Lad rather then be thought to speak more then he would do put forth his hand to take up the Viper but the venemous Creature extending its neck bit him by the singer very sorely the which as you heard before of the Country fellow he presently put into his Mouth to suck out the blood and thereby bought his rashness and folly at a dear rate for not long after he changed this miserable life for death there being no medecine as my Authour adds that could do him any good yet if he had not put his finger into his mouth he might have been recovered In Curatione quod de aliorum Animâ—lium venenorum morsu dictum â—â—e faciendum Tamen hoc venenum uâ— aâ—â— peculiar Antididot habet Ardoynus De Venenis Lib. 6. Cap. 1. Veneni Viperarum Bezoar Costam esse scribit a Ê’ss ad Ê’j Cum vino Absynthite vel Decoctionis Absynthij exhibitum Laudantur Scilla sub cineribus cocta Alliis Porrisque tritis impositis Hordei farina cum Accto Melle stercore Caprino subacta impositasque cataplasmatis instar Quibusdam ex Dioscorid Lib 6. Cap. 47. exhibent Coaguli Leporin obol iij. vinumque frequenter bibendum mandant Et ita Gesner Hist Serpent Lib. 5. De Vipera ex relatione Gerardi Bauman quoque affirmat Puclla quaedam cum carnem cui venenum Vipera exemptum erat fortè gustasset in opisthotonum aliasque gravissima symptomata incidit Sed mox vinum copiose ei propinatum est liberata puella Nonnulli satis est exemplo lavisse fovisse plagam Aceto Sale pauco Melle Mtilis est radiX Asphodeli Gemianae Bryoniae Aristclochiae Rotundae Item Terra sigillata neâ— non Radix tormentillae quorum quodlibet vel seorsim vel plura simul mixta danturÊ’j cum vino veteri â—racastoreus De Contagiosis Morb. Libro 3. Capite 2. Sic de Radice Tormentillae attestat Conslat Rusticos quosdam dum fortè secarent herbas demorsos fuisse à Vipera ac repente inslatos apposita autem Tormentilla vocata herba supra loâ—um statim liberatos fuisse Cui si aliquid Rutae addatur efficacius medicamentum evadit Galenus Lib. 2. De Antidot Cap. 14. Ad Viperae morsus haec epithemata tradit â„ž Sagapeni Piperis liquoris Cyrenaic opopanicis An. Part. j. Galbani Sulphuris vivi An Part. ij Arida pulverisetur liquoris in Aceto solvantur aridis inijciantur F. Emplastrum Vel. â„ž Centaurij Aristolochiae Rad. Puced An. Par. Pondus Pulverisentur et Aceto ac Galbano excipiantur Vel â„ž Sagapen Asae faetidae Piperis Opopanicis An. Ê’jj Galbani Sulphuris vivi An. Ê’j Gummi Aceto Dissolvantur atque iis reliqua pulverisata inspergantur F. Emplastrum Item Galenus De Locis Affectis Lib. 3. Cap. 7. Scribit se vidisse Rusticum Cujustotum digitum Vipera momorderat qui salce quod tum fortè habebat ab ultimo articulo ictam partem resecans deinde inducta usitatis pharmacis in cicatrice nullo sumpto medicamine sanatus est Inter Composita Paraeus Loco â—â—tatato valde laudat Theriacam Antiquam in Aqua Vitae Dissolutam vel Methridatium ubi sic scribit Cum Rex Carolus nonus Monspessuli esset ac in Fargij Pharmacopolae officina Viperam unam tractarem ipsa extremum indicem qua inter unguem carnemque hiat morsu mihi praehendit unde statim subortus est acer dolor tum partis exquisitissimo sensu praeditae veneni efferi occasione è vestigio digitum supra vulnus arctissime constrinxi ut sanguinem venenumque ne se latius in corpus diffunderet exprimerem Theriacam Antiquam in Aqua Vitae dissolvi ex qua intinctum imbutumque bom bycem vulneri imposui atque intra paucos aies hee uno remedio planè convalui Licet uti Mitheridatio loco Theriacae Item inter Interna exhibentur ab Autoribus Theriaca quae inter composita primas obâ—inet Ê’j vel ij pondere cum vini generosi â„¥ iiij Cui succedit Mithridatium ut Docet Sennertus Vel. â„ž Radic Aristoloch Rotund Bacc. Laturi Cassiae ligneae Piperis An. Ê’ij Câ—storei Ê’j Anisi Ê’ss folior Rutae sylvestris Ê’j ss Pulverisentur omnia cum Melle despumato redigantur in formam Electuarij Dossis a Ê’j Ad ij cum haustu vini Mathiolus in Com. super praefat Lib. 6. Dioscoridis ex Antidoto quadam quam ibi describit aquam parat cujus tantas vires esse praedicat ut ea non solum à demorsu Viperis quod duabus Histories probat sed etiam à quocunque Animali veneno ictos sanare Imò in tanto mortis discrimine constitutos ut visum vocem et reliquos sensus amiserint ingenti Astantium admiratione à longo veluti somno excitare et à morte ad vitam revocare possit Dossis