dockes boyled in water to procure it to bleed sucking it first or rubbing it strongly with the hand or with scarification or by setting to of horseleches or ventozes It is sayd that the ashes of a fig-tree cast vpon the bitten place being closed vp will open it againe But for the more suretie it were good withall to scarrifie it This plaster following is much commended to lay on the sore Take of the ashes of crabfishes burnt of garlicke mynt gentium aristolochia rotunda each two drams bay-berries bole armeniake each a dram Temper them with the ioyse of mynts and make a plaster and wash the place often with the vrine of a yoong boy This powder following is very excellent to bee cast on the vlcer twice or thrice a weeke Take of the powder of precipitata of bezer-stone and the powder of angelica rootes each a scruple Mix them together This doth wonderfully draw forth the malignity and is of great force against poyson Inwardly also must be vsed Antidotes that haue vertue against such kinde of poyson as that which is mentioned of Galen by the prescript of Asinius made in this maner Take of fresh water crab fishes dried and beaten to powder ten drams of gentium seuen rams of frankencense one dram Mix them and giue the bitten body euery day three drams in water to drinke for the space of 40. daies together Aetius putteth but fiue drams of gentium to the rest Another mixture very like this is set downe by Diofcorides in this sort Burne crabfishes with the twigs or proinings of vitis alba that is white brionie and reserue the powder of gentium roots thus Take of crabfish powder three drams with which may bee mixt the powder of gentium one dram and halfe of pure wine six ounces Let so much be drunke fower daies together which being ended let the double or triple quantitie be drunke certaine other dayes Some compound them thus Take of gentian roots two drams of crabfish powder three drams of terra sigillata halfe an ounce Mix a dram of this powder with some fiue or six ounces of the decoctioÌ„ of crabfishes and giue it euery day to drinke This composition I like very well and so doe I this which followeth described by Ioseph Quercetano Take of gentian and valerian rootes each an ounce and halfe of Consolida minor which some take for the herbe called Selfe heale but other for the daysie of dry rew and penny-royall that some call organy each a handfull of mummia and crabfishes calcined each an ounce Boile these together in wine Of this decoction giue the bitten body about two or three ounces in the morning fasting for the space of eight daies together Vntill things of greater efficacie can be prepared and made ready it is thought profitable to giue the bitten body some of the mad dogges liuer burnt to ashes and enioyne them withall to a conuenient diet as meats of good iuice rather moyst theÌ„ dry that the bodie be loose prepared with opening roots that haue vertue or power to procure vrine Aetius commendeth the giuing of Treacle about the quantitie of a filberd nut the three first dayes saying that he neuer knew any fall into hydrophobie that is the feare of water which is the extreame and last act of this tragicall infirmitie that vsed to drinke treacle And Petrus Salius also vpon his owne often experience giueth it the price aboue all inward medicines that euer hee made triall off The powder of harts horne burnt and the bezour-stone are very good also to be vsed heerein Some beside treacle aduise also the vse of mithridate or the confection called Diatessaron which specially is commended against the byting of a madde dogge to be giuen also after the poyson is spred into the vaines and arteries because they thinke that the inward parts are heereby fortified Howbeit Capinaccius sayth that the great Antidotes among which these are the cheefe should not be giuen at all after one is attached with madnesse although before that time they ought to be vsed with al speed tempered with sorrell water or the decoction of lapatium acutum which some call herbe-patience or some other apt or conuenient liquor There is no remedie more vsuall or better hoped off among the vulgar sort then presently after the byting to wash the bitten body two or three daies together in sea water Which hath beene found very effectuall in some bodies of good complexions or in light hurts but it is not catholicon that is to say it seemeth not in all persons Nether will it doe any good at all after the first three or fower dayes from the byting This practise was first deuised and vsed by such as dwell neere the sea whereupon such as haue dwelt farther from thence in imitation of these haue cast their bitten bodies into brackish water which is so far from doing good as it is indeed exceeding hurtfull by reason of the antipathie betwixt his kinde of poyson and fresh water from which it is very little different Neuerthelesse Corn-lius Celsus aduiseth that such as be entring into hydrophobie should suddenly bee cast vnawares into a poole or riuer of water and if they be vnskilfull in swimming to suffer then to sinke into the water as it may run well into their mouths then to raise vp their heads again But if they haue skil in swimming then to sowse their heads somtime vnder the water that they may drinke whether they wil or not For so both their thirst fear of water wil be amended as he saith But in this practise he wisheth one thing to be looked vnto that is least their weake bodies be caught with a crampe or conuulsion which if it happen he wisheth them to be put into a vessell of hot oyle after they haue been taken out of the poole But how weake a remedy this is hath been by example declared before out of Andraeas Baâ—cius Elpidianus Some put the bitten body into a bath and make him sweat therein as long as he is able to endure it the wound being kept open that the poison thereof might the more easily be soked out then doe they make him drinke a good draught of pure vnmixt wine which is esteemed a thing contrarie to all poisons This being done three daies together they thinke the bitten body safe from all danger This practise is somewhat agreeable to that which the Philosopher before spoken of vsed on himselfe that Actius maketh mention of But Oribasius would not that any should aduenture to bathe themselues before 20. daies after the biting were expited and some 40. daies and Auicen admitteth it only in the declination of the euill that is after all other medicinall practises which indeed is most agreable to reason Petrus Salius saith that the vulgar sort of his countrie people put so great confidence in the vertue of holy bread and holy water that whosoeuer eateth and drinketh thereof from the hand
left because a great part of it had been consumed by washing in the sea application of the cauterie and for the remaining poison he thought it very requisite to doe that now which in the beginning might not be permitted His cure was to drawe forth as much as he could by the wound keeping it open almost 60. daies together and diligently clensing it to strengthen the inward parts with appropriate Antidotes and lastly to heale it vp For correcting and qualifying of his melancholike disposition and restrayning of the poison hee caused this Apozeme or syrupe following to bee made â„ž Borag bugloss amborum cum radicib suis lapatij acuticum toto ana M. j. summata tum fumer lupulor fraxini ana M. ss mellissoph M. j. beton tantundem sem citri acetos card benedict ana Ê’ ij polypodij queru recentis non corrosi purum contusi â„¥ j. pussulur exacinaturum N vj. Fiat omnium decoctio in aqua hordeacea recenter facta ad lib. ij colatur Colatura adde succorum Inmar lupulor pomorum redolentium ana â„¥ iiij aceti â„¥ iij. Fiat syrupus cum saccharo clarificatus aromatizatus cum puluere theriaculi Guidonis Ê’ j. This is to be giuen fower mornings together and to bee iterated againe some other three or fower mornings After the sicke man had vsed this sirupe eight daies together and now appeared some notes of concoction in his vrine and the grosse humors seeming sufficiently attenuated he purged him with this purgation following â„ž fol. sen Oriental mundat â„¥ iij. epithym Ê’ j. ss anis cinnamomi electi ana ℈ ij trium flor commumum folior meliss beton ana P j. Fiat decoctio ad â„¥ iiij coletur In colatura dissol rhabarb electi in sero lactis caprini per noctem infusi cum tantillo cinnamoni mane fortiter expressi ℈ iiij confect hamech prima descriptionis Ê’ ij ss thâ—riacae elect puluer theriaculis Guidonis ana ℈ ij syrup rosarum ex infusione rosar syrup de pomis ana â„¥ j. Fiat Potio By this purgation he auoided many cholericke burnt and melancholike excrements The next day following he gaue him treacle tempered with the powder of betonie and sugar For the bitten wound hee caused a cataplasme to bee made thus Take of white onions in number three make holes in the tops of them and fill them vp with treacle then couer the holes and rost the onions in hot embers till they be soft after which beat them in a morter and force them through a haire siue This done ad of both sorts of aristolochia beaten to powder each Ê’ iij. of galbanum bdellium myrrh each halfe an ounce of the powder of crabfishes siue drames Mixe them in the forme of a cataplasme spread it and lay it on the wound After the crust was seperated from the vlcer he prepared a mundificatiue made of rosine mixt with the powder of crabfishes and the rootes of aristolochia and vpon the vlcer he laid this emplastar Take of galbanum sagapenum and opopanax each halfe a drame of cuphorbium iridis Florentiae aristoloc rotund and gentian rootes each a dram powder of crabfishes two drams of waxe a sufficient quantitie of turpentine two ounces Mixe them and make a plaster This did drawe a wonderfull deale of filthie matter out of the vlcer and kept it from healing Inwardly hee gaue him this powder following for the space of fortie dayes together about two drams at once to drinke in buglosse water Take of the ashes of riuer crabfishes ten ounces of gentiaÌ„ rootes fiue ounces of olibanum one ounce Mixe them together and make a very fine powder When he had brought his cure to the point of healing he gaue the sicke epithymum in whaie of goats milke and sometime he purged him with diacatholicon and the confection of hamech and many times he washed the vlcer with the vrine of a yong boy For this a Auicen sayth doth forciblie draw forth the venome And lastly he healed it vp and recouered him perfectly from the danger of this cruell and fearefull euill But now to proceed as I began It is very wholesome to drinke the decoction of oxylapathum and pimpinella or mary-golds tempered with a spooneful of aqua vitae that gentium and treacle haue beene infused in Some country people haue made great account of a medicine made of rew wormewood garlicke daysie leaues mary-golds balme and a little blacke hellebor salt and vineger stamped and strained together and the iuice heere of giuen to drinke euery other morning fasting forthrice which is wont to purge them vpward and downeward in such manner that they thinke the venome of the byting is thereby so throughly expelled out of the body as they will neuer be touched with hydrophobie or water feare yet in the beginning while the venome resteth still in or neere the bitten place I thinke it not safe to vse it When the malignitie of the poyson is dispersed into the entrailes or inward parts some account the giuing of antimonium to bee a thing of speciall vertue because it maketh expulsion euery way as by vomit siege and sweat For in this case it is holden but lost labour to purge with other then such as be violent in operation In outward applications to the wound a hot iron as hath beene sayd before is much commended yet if three or foure daies after the biting be past without the vse of any other good meanes it is commonly to late to vse it but instead thereof may scarrifications be made and some blistering medicins as horse-leeches be applyed Such as are afraid of a hot iron may haue a potentiall cauterie instead thereof made of Vnguentum rosatum and sumblimatum tempered together Such as are vexed with this infirmity haue many times a continuall hot feuer withall for whose ease Aetius commendeth the vse of a medicine or antidote made of nuts as followeth R. sagapeniÊ’ij op ij Thebaici Ê’ ij Croci Ê’ ss Lycij Indici ℈ ixj ss Carnis nucum iuglandium non valde veterum Ê’ 40 Misce The dose of it is about a dram at once in raine water hot toward night and after the vigour of the feuer so that in the morning before be giuen an antidote of crabfishes and at night this of nuts For it is of very great efficacie to procure sleepe where is great want thereof After the cure is finished he aduiseth such as be cured to be purged once a yeere with Hiera for preseruation about the approching of that time of the yeere they were bitten in and vpon the instant day of their byting to take treacle for three dayes together For further cure of the sicke if need be Paulus sayth that Dropacismi Sinapismi with great profit be made all the body ouer But the most effectuall remedie of all other he sayth is the right vse of veratrum often practized and taken Which Salius seemeth to approue
where he sayth that the case is very desperate and hopelesse where this doggish madnesse is not holpen by gining of white ellebor well prepared It is good for the sicke to drinke whay Smithes water sorrell or lettice water which may easily be giuen them before they begin to feare water But after they once beginne to feare it let them be kept from the sight both of it and all other liquid things For nothing doth put them into such horrour and trembling and vexation and confusion as the beholding of these and some other bright things It were good also that they might not see such meat as is prouided for them Yet if they refufe to eat or drinke they must bee forced therto although this be noted commonly in them that they swallow with great difficultie As there may be deuices to keepe them from the sight of their meat that is prepared for their eating so may drinke be spowted into their mouthes or downe their throats with a syring or giuen them in a suckling bottle or such like Some not yet come to the feare of water but being at the point thereof haue suddenly vpon the sight of water fallen very grieuouslie into the feare of it by the sudden motion and stirring of that virulent and poysonnous matter contained in the body which in nature is contrary to water Some very superstitiously take vpon them to cure this disease with words and charmes which because it is vngodly and deuilish I passe ouer as a thing much more offensiue to God then healthfull to man When the cure is brought either neere or to an end by the vse of such meanes as haue beene declared it would be very profitable and to good purpose after a clister giuen if the body bee costiue to cause the bitten body to sweat in reasonable sort for the vtter expelling and vapouring out of the relickes and remainder of the venemous matter as well by inward as outward meanes And before the sore be quite healed vp a tryall may be made whether any of the venemous matter remaine yet vnremoued by the application of such things as haue beene before aduised for to know whether the byting dog were mad or not as the kernels of walnuts or bread such other layd to the sore offred to hungry dogs but first the sore place should be so sweetned from the sent smel of such salues and medicines as haue beene vsed thereto as dogs by reason of them might not take any dislike of the bread that is offred them And also triall may bee made by setting to the fundaments of cockes or hens as hath beene sayd And though the cure be as well performed as the skill of the Phisitian or Chyrurgian can deuise and no likelihood of any future harme seem to be feared yet for the better assurance and preuention of relapse some aduise as a point of good prouidence that the bitten body should be purged once euery quarter of a yeere and once in fifteene daies to eate a little of the best kind of treacle I haue not read in any mans writings that hath intreated of this doggish euill how dogges may be ordered to keepe them from madnes sauing only in Plinie or the citers of Plinie lib. 19. cap. 5. who sheweth that the ould Phisitians before his time vsed to cut a worme as they call it out of their tongues which indeed is no worme but a sinowy matter round in the fashion of a worme And some to that purpose cut of the end of whelpes tailes after they be fortie daies ould And the same Plinie saith also lib. 8. cap. 40. that the elder and bigger dogges should euery yeere in the dogge daies bee giuen hen-dunge mixt with the meat that they eat For in those daies they are most apt to be caught with madnes but if they chaunce to bee mad before the vse of these meanes then to purge them with elleborus But yet in my conceit vpon the consideration of that which before I haue noted and gathered out of the best most iudiciall practised writers before the purging of them there should be vsed outwardly if they were bitten by any other dogge some of those good remedies that are set downe for men and inwardly to giue them treacle and other good antidotes vsed against this infirmitie But the surest way is to hange them vp or kill them outright least being kept a liue they mischeiue others But for the preuenting and keeping dogs from madnes whether they be sound or bitten by a mad dog no meanes can be vsed more excellent effectuall for the sound then while the dog daies last for the bitten at any time to mixe with their meat or water that they drinke some of this excellent powder following that Doctor Iulian Palmarius hath so much commended All the aduise counsell and manner of curing this fearefull maladie carefully set downe by ancient moderne Phisitians hath no further scope then to helpe such as are not fallen into hydrophobie or feare of water which is the extremitie of this disease and so hard to be holpen as none finding the sicke in that case would aduenture the curing of them but leaue them as past all helpe and recouery Yet now of late yeeres through the carefull and commendable industrie of some notable men there is found out an Antidote of so excellent and pretious vertue as being rightly vsed hath by much experience been tried most sure and infallible not only for preuenting of hydrophobie but also for the curing of such as haue been attached therwith so that the wound be not in any part of the head aboue the mouth nor washt with fresh water For where either of these is found there remaineth either none or very small hope of helpe This pretious Antidote or all-curing medicine Iulian Palmarius a worthy Physitian hath made knowne for the benefite of all sorts of people affirming vpon his owne sundry trials thereof that it is so excellent in vertue as it will cure and helpe the bitten bodies at what time soeuer they be bitten yea though they haue neuer been purged or vsed any of the meanes before set downe or though they be vexed with the hydrophobie the conditions only excepted that are before noted By which meanes the sicke are freed from many tortures that in other manner of curings they be forced to endure This remedie of so rare vertue is made as followeth Take of the leaues of rew veruen of the lesser sage of plantaine the leaues of polypodie common wormewood mint mugwort balme betonie the lesser centaurie of each equall waight These must euery one of them be gathered at such time of the yeere as they be of most force which commonly is in Iune about the full of the Moone Let them be put seuerally into paper bagges and suffred to drie in such a place as neither Sunne nor raine may come neere them least they should grow too dry or wax mouldly
But yet because I am loth altogether to frustrate their expectation of somewhat from me that may helpe to direct such as be nouices in the practise of physicke for ordring the cure heereof when occasion shal happen to be offred I wil in few words shew them how I would proceed in hope of their helpe if any such came vnder mine hand First therefore if the byting be new and fresh I would binde the bitten member about foure or fiue fingers distance aboue the bitten place if it were in such a part as I might well doe it or lay on some astrictiue plaster such as before hath been set downe for the better restraint of the poysons passage especially in sanguine or cholericke bodies whose waies and passages are large and the heat of their complexions some motine to the speedier working of it the quantitie and qualitie of the venome being considered withall But in bodies of grosse humours and cold complexions the regard of such astriction may bee the lesse for that in such bodies the poyson findeth not his passage or operation so easie This done I would note whether the wound were great or small if great I would suffer it to bleed well if small I would enlarge it and make it bleed sufficiently hauing first washt away the foame or flauer of the dogges mouth with the vrine of a boy or some other good lotion either by circination as hath beene shewed before or scarification or leeches then set on a great cupping glasse with a good flame if the bitten part would receine it or a cupping horne after the remouing heereof I would wash and foment it againe with some strong brine or salt water tempered with the best sort of treacle or with the lotion that Ambrosius Paraus vsed to the Lady Grons daughter and lastof all I would foment it in such maner as Iulian Palmarius hath aduised with a mixture of his powder if I had it in a readinesse and giue of the same powder inward according to his counsell forbearing to torture the bitten body with cauteries as much as I could and rest only vpon the operation of this so much commended Antidote which I would continue for the space of 40. daies at the least still fomenting and bathing the hurt place euery day as I should finde occasion and withall vse meanes to keepe the fore from healing vp al that while though Palmarius affirme it needlesse so to doe But if this powder were not in readinesse then after the binding washing and clensing with such lotions as before are named and cupping with scarification I would seare it either with an actuall or a potential cautery according to the doctrine before deliuered by the learned procuring the fall or comming away of the scabbe or crust with what speed I could and keeping open the sear a sufficient time vsing euacuations by purging bleeding and sweating in their due times and inward corroboratiues and diet c. in such sort as hath beene specified But except I should see the greater occasion I wold in stead of opening a vaine in the arme vse a practise that none of them haue spoken of that I haue read namely the opening of the hemorrhoidall vaines in the fundament For so by all probabilitie the venemous pollution would be drawen downe thither from the princip all parts without detriment to any other If many daies were past before the bitten bodie came to my curing I would deale with him as Doctor Palmarius counselleth if I had his Antidote in a readines or els as Franciscus Valleriola dealt with his patient or like differing from his practise Prognosticke notes ALl that be bitten oâ— a mad dogge if they bee neglected or badly cured wil fall into the passion of fearing water called hydrophobie at one time or other and much the rather if they be repleat with euill humors But all this may easily be preuented if at the first there bee good order taken For fewe haue miscaried thereby that presently haue vsed good meanes to withstand it Petrus Salius saith that in his countrie it hath been long time obserued for truth that if such as be bitten by a mad creature chance to touch the plant or tree called Cornus or Sanguinaria that is the Cornell or dogbery tree within the space of one yeere after his biting he will certainely fall mad And some also affirme that if the bitten doe sleepe vnder the tree called Sorbus which we call a Seruice tree he will doe the like Though the biting be but small and in the vpper part of the skinne yet all speed ought to be vsed for cure thereof For otherwise it wil be a very hard matter to preuent the mischiefe depending thereon The poison conteined in the slauer or spittle of a mad dogge is hot and drie malignant and contagious causing a distemper like it selfe in all such as bee hurt thereby which if it be suffred to lie on the skinne of any part of the body and not quickly washt away with salt water vrine or such like it will infect the whole body though it be not bitten The fome or slauer of a mad dogs mouth touching ones lippes or tongue will so quickly and easilie peirce though those parts that it wil very speedily induce madnes if it be not quickly preuented which is verified by a historie out of Caelius Orlerianus which makes report of a certaine Semster or Sewster that while she was making a shirt a dogge that she no whit suspected to be madde snatcht at the shirt and rent it with his teeth which rent place she afterward held betwixt her teeth to plucke it out streight that she might the better sowe it euen but by this houlding betwixt her teeth she so lickt the bitten rent of the cloth that the third day after she became starke mad and so died That this is like to be true heare what Guiliel Iâ—b Obser Cuâ—at Câ—…rur Obser 86. Fabritius a very excellent and expert Chirurgian of our time reporteth of the like in his chirurgicall obscruations and cures A certaine Matron or ancient woman hapt to be met in the way by a madde dogge who catching hould of one of her coates tare it in two or three places and so went his way without hurting any part of her body at all This woman not knowing or supposing the dogge to be mad at her comming home sowed vp the rents of her coat and when she had done bit of the thred with her teeth without perceiuing any hurt at all thereby till three monthes were past After which she began by little and little to grow melancholike and troubled with imaginations horrible visions and feares and lastly she fell into a great loathing of water wine and liquid things and moreouer to barke like a dog loosing the knowledge of such as were vsually in the house with her and offring to bite them continuing in this state till she died The scratching also with the nailes as well as
simple wound Yet the paine of biting more then by a simple wound may be by reason of the tearing of the skinne and flesh through the thicknes of the teeth which rather doth bruise then pearce the flesh except they bee pressed very hard And such wounds as make round holes or such as be caused by stones staues stripes and such like are also more painfull and hard to cure then those that be made with swords daggers kniues and such like Wherefore whether a man woman child horse cowe swine or other creature be bitten with a dogge that is not mad or by a man or ape or such like let the biting bee presently fomented or bathed with vineger and nitrum called saltpeter mixt together Or as Oribasius aduiseth lay on a sponge soked in vineger or bruse a fenell root and lay it on with hony Paulus Aegineta counselleth that the bitten wound should first be sprinkled with vineger then beaten with the open or flat hand after which to powre vineger vpon it from a loft the vineger being first tempered with nitrum and then to lay on a newe sponge soked either in vineger alone or tempered with nitrum and so let it lie the space of three daies on the wound moistening the sponge with vineger when it drieth for it healeth perfectly as he saith Or lay on lana succida wet in vineger or an onion brused with hony or the toppes of origanum tempered with salt and onions in equall portions But for bitings that are come to suppuration or matter temper the meale of eruum with hony and lay it on For it is speciall good for such bitings If they be enflamed anoint them with spuma argenti or litharge beaten with water After the place hath been formented as before is said and the sponge remoued some account it very good to lay vpon the wound a cateplasme made of walnut kirnels onions hony and salt boiled together and made vp with wheat meale or farinaerui beaten together It is good to keep the wound open some reasonable time before it be healed vp Amatus Lusitanus being called to the cure of one bitten by an English Mastiue dogge that was not madde kept the wound from healing Curat med Centur. 2. Cura 78. a month together to preuent all danger that might haue hapned Simples of great vertue against the byting of a mad dogge AGrimonià Eupatorium Agrimonie is of force to purge by vrine and giuen either in powder or the iuyce of the greene herbe drunke of one bitten with a mad dogge after three or fower daies from the beginning is of great effect especially if the body haue beene dealt withall before with other conuenient meanes It is very excellent also against the biting or stinging of serpents and other poisons Allium Garlicke is of very great operation against all cold poisons and the biting of a madde dogge Alysson Madwort or Galens Moonewort Galen affirmeth it to be a maruelous herbe in curing such as are bitten of a mad dogge yea though they were entred into madnes It is brought out of Spaine and Italy but nowe some of our Herboristes haue it growing in their gardens Amygdala Almons beaten with hony are very good to lay to the biting of a mad dogge Angelica is very excellent against the biting of a mad dogge or any other venemous beast Aphronitrum Spumamaris tempered with swines grease auaileth much against such bitings Arnoglossa Plantago Lambes tongue or plantain is also very good Beta Beet is commended for a good herbe in this case Betonica Betonie is also greatly commended for such bitings Brassica Colewort This herbe saith Rabbi Moises hath a peculiar propertie against the biting of a mad dogge Bulbi omnes impositi iuuant Cancer fluuiatilis Riuer crabfish The ashes of these fishes as Galen saith are of wonderfull vertue by the propertie of their substance against the biting of a mad dogge either alone or much more by mixing them with gentian and frankencense or olibanum in such sort as there may be offrankencense one part of gentian fiue and of the ashes of crabfishes ten parts This he learned of his Master Aeschrion the Empiricke who alwaies had this powder in a readines prepared as followeth Into a pot of red brasse hee put a number of crabfishes aliue wherein he burnt them so long till they might bee beaten to very fine powder This he did after the rising of the dogstarre the sunne being in the signe of Leo and the Moone being 18. daies ould This powder he gaue the dog-bitten body euery day fortie daies together about a spoonefull at once sprinkled with water But after three or fower daies from the begining he gaue euery day two spoonefuls sprinkled as before An other of his Masters called Pelops did no lesse esteeme the powder of these fishes then the former Oribasius Paulus and Aetius prepare them much after the same manner The vse of them is very much regarded both of ould and late writers Caepe Onion The iuice of onions tempered with hony rue and salt is very profitable against the biting of mad dogges Centaurium minus The lesser centurie is an herbe of very great excellency for the same Chamâ—â—itis Herbe-Iuie or ground pine stamped greene with hony is of vertue against poyson or the byting of any venemous beast Gentiana Gentian or Felwort a dram of the powder of the root of gentian or felwort mixt with a little pepper and herbe grace and giuen inward is profitable for such as are bitten or stung with any maner of beast or for any that hath taken poyson Hyaenaepellis the skinne or hide of the beast Hyaena is of so admirable efficacie saith Aetius that if it be lapt about one that beginneth to be mad of the biting of a mad dogge he will quickly be restored againe to his wits Or the powder of it burnt and giuen in drinke will asswage the affection of hydrophobie Imperatoria masterwort the root with the leaues stamped and layd vpon the bytings of mad dogs or rather venemous beasts will cure them Lapatium Docke or herbe-patience is greatly commended by Aetius to be laid plasterwise on the wound or byting and the decoction therof drunk saying he knew an ould man that vsed none other remedie Lichnis Plumaria Fethertop or wild campion the weight of two drams of the seed heereof beaten to powder and drunke is good for such as are bitten of any venemous beast Lycopsis Anglica Echium Alcibiadion vipers buglosse or wall buglosse this herbe chewed and the iuyce swalowed downe is a most singular remedie against poison and the byting of any venemous beast or the root chewed and laid on the sore worketh the same effect Melissa Melissophyllon Balme drunke in wine or applyed outwardly is of great vertue against the byting of mad dogges or other venemous beasts Nepeta Nep dry is a very good herbe for this purpose It draweth all the circumstant moisture from the deepest parts of the