REMEDIES FOR HÆMORRHAGE

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Sanguinem sistit coagulum cervinum ex aceto, item leporis, huius quidem et pilorum cinis, item e fimo asini cinis inlitus—efficacior vis e maribus aceto admixto et in lana ad omne profluvium inposito—, similiter ex equino, capitis et feminum aut fimi vitulorum cinis inlitus ex aceto, item caprini cornus vel fimi ex aceto. hircini vero iocineris dissecti sanies efficacior, et cinis utriusque ex vino potus vel naribus ex aceto inlitus, hircini quoque utris, vinarii dumtaxat, cinis cum pari pondere resinae, quo genere sistitur sanguis et vulnus glutinatur. haedinum quoque coagulum ex aceto et feminum eius combustorum cinis similiter pollere traduntur.

Ulcera sanat in tibiis cruribusque ursinus adips admixta rubrica; quae vero serpant, fel aprunum cum resina et cerussa, maxillarum apri vel suum cinis, fimum suum inlitum siccum, item caprinum ex aceto subactumetsubfervefactum. cetera purgantur et explentur butyro, cornus cervini cinere vel medulla cervi, felle taurino cum cyprino oleo aut irino. fimum recens suum vel inveterati farina inlinuntur vulneribus ferro factis. phagedaenis et fistulis inmittitur fel tauri cum suco porri aut lacte mulierum vel sanguis aridus cum cotyledone herba. carcinomata curat coagulum leporis cum pari pondere capparis adspersum vino, gangraenas ursinum fel pinna inlitum, asini ungularum cinis ea quae serpunt ulcera inspersus. sanguis equi adrodit carnes septica vi, item fimi equini inveterati favilla; ea vero, quae phagedaenas vocant in ulcerum genere, corii bubuli cinis cum melle. caro vituli recentia vulnera non patitur intumescere, fimum bubulum cum melle. fimi vitulini cinis sordida ulcera et quae cacoēthe vocant et lacte mulieris sanant; recentes plagas ferro inlatas glutinum taurinum liquefactum, tertio die solutum. caseus caprinus siccus ex aceto ac melle purgat ulcera; quae vero serpant, cohibet sebum cum cera, idem addita pice ac sulpure percurat. similiter proficit ad caco ēthe haedi feminum cinis e lacte mulieris, et adversus carbunculos suis feminae cerebrum tostum inlitumque.

Scabiem hominis asininae medullae maxime abolent et urina eiusdem cum suo luto inlita, butyrum etiam, quod in iumentis proficit cum resina calida, glutinum taurinum in aceto liquefactum addita calce, fel caprinum cum aluminis cinere; bovas fimum bubulum, unde et nomen traxere. canum scabies sanatur bubulo sanguine recenti iterumque, cum inarescat, inlito et postero die abluto cinere lixivo.

Spinae et similia corpori extrahuntur felis excrementis, item caprae ex vino, coagulo quocumque, sed maxime leporis, cum turis polline et oleo aut cum visci pari pondere aut cum propoli.—Cicatrices nigras sebum asininum reducit ad colorem, fel vituli extenuat calefactum. medici adiciunt murram et mel et crocum aereaque pyxide condunt; aliqui et florem aeris admiscent.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Hæmorrhage is arrested by applying deer’s rennet with vinegar, hare’s rennet, hare’s fur reduced to ashes, or ashes of burnt asses’ dung. The dung, however, of male animals is the most efficacious for this purpose, being mixed with vinegar, and applied with wool, in all cases of hæmorrhage. In the same way, too, the ashes of a horse’s head or thigh, or of burnt calves’ dung, are used with vinegar; the ashes also of a goat’s horns or dung, with vinegar. But it is the thick blood that issues from the liver of a he-goat when cut asunder, that is looked upon as the most efficacious; or else the ashes of the burnt liver of a goat of either sex, taken in wine or applied to the nostrils with vinegar. The ashes, too, of a leather wine-bottle—but only when made of he-goat skin—are used very efficiently with an equal quantity of resin, for the purpose of stanching blood, and knitting together the lips of the wound. A kid’s rennet in vinegar, or the thighs of that animal, reduced to ashes, are said to be productive of a similar result.

Ulcers upon the legs and thighs are cured by an application of bears’ grease, mixed with red earth: and those of a serpiginous nature by using wild boar’s gall, with resin and white lead; the jaw-bone of a wild boar or swine, reduced to ashes; swine’s dung in a dry state; or goats’ dung, made luke-warm in vinegar. For other kinds of ulcers butter is used, as a detergent, and as tending to make new flesh; ashes of deer’s antlers, or deer’s marrow; or else bull’s gall, mixed with oil of cyprus or oil of iris. Wounds inflicted with edged weapons are rubbed with fresh swine’s dung, or with dried swine’s dung, powdered. When ulcers are phagedænic or fistulous, bull’s gall is injected, with leek-juice or woman’s milk; or else bull’s blood, dried and powdered, with the plant cotyledon.

Carcinomatous sores are treated with hare’s rennet, sprinkled upon them with an equal proportion of capers in wine; gangrenes, with bears’ grease, applied with a feather; and ulcers of a serpiginous nature with the ashes of an ass’s hoofs, powdered upon them. The blood of the horse corrodes the flesh by virtue of certain septic powers which it possesses; dried horse-dung, too, reduced to ashes, has a similar effect. Those kinds of ulcers which are commonly known as “phagedænic,” are treated with the ashes of a cow’s hide, mixed with honey. Calves’ flesh, as also cow-dung mixed with honey, prevents recent wounds from swelling. The ashes of a leg of veal, applied with woman’s milk, are a cure for sordid ulcers, and the malignant sore known as “cacoëthes:” bull-glue, melted, is applied to recent wounds inflicted with edged weapons, the application being removed before the end of three days. Dried goats’ milk cheese, applied with vinegar and honey, acts as a detergent upon ulcers; and goat suet, used in combination with wax, arrests the spread of serpiginous sores: if employed with pitch and sulphur, it will effect a thorough cure. The ashes of a kid’s leg, applied with woman’s milk, have a similar effect upon malignant ulcers; for the cure, too, of carbuncles, a sow’s brains are roasted and applied.

The itch in man is cured very effectually by using the marrow of an ass, or the urine of that animal, applied with the mud it has formed upon the ground. Butter, too, is very good; as also in the case of beasts of burden, if applied with warmed resin: bull glue is also used, melted in vinegar, and incorporated with lime; or goat’s gall, mixed with calcined alum. The eruption called “boa,” is treated with cow-dung, a fact to which it is indebted for its name. The itch in dogs is cured by an application of fresh cows’ blood, which, when quite dry, is renewed a second time, and is rubbed off the next day with strong lie-ashes.

Thorns and similar foreign substances are extracted from the body by using cats’ dung, or that of she-goats, with wine; the rennet also of any kind of animal, that of the hare more particularly, with powdered frankincense and oil, or an equal quantity of mistletoe, or else with bee-glue.

Ass suet restores scars of a swarthy hue to their natural colour; and they are equally effaced by using calf’s gall made warm. Medical men add myrrh, honey, and saffron, and keep the mixture in a copper box; some, too, incorporate with it flower of copper.