Animal simples, approved for modern uses of cure / by W.T. Fernie.

  • Fernie, William Thomas, 1830-
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Animal simples, approved for modern uses of cure / by W.T. Fernie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PAGE I'AfiK WHOOPING COUGH, contcl. Sugar (to determine sex Cochineal 93 of offspring) - 247 Cora], red - 8, 104 Toad (flooding) 484 Cuckoo spittle - 326 Whelk - 521 Dab Devil's thumb - Dog, transferred to Fox's milk Horse, piebald - 160 451 118 187 248 WORMS, to Expel. Animal oil (tapeworm) Earthworms (in children Ox gall (round worms) Salt 25 )533 196 422 Mouse - Musk - 356 362 Serum of blood 63 Owl broth 335 WOUNDS & SORES, to Heal. Sheep flock 431 Animal oil (gangrenous) 25 Spider, house -- 469 Balsam of ox gall 195 Sugar candy 248 Beeswax ointment 47 Toad in mouth 487 Butter, boiled - 77 WIND, Direction of, to show. Kingfisher - - 271 Copper - Cow dung plaster Dog to lick 527 108 121 WITCH, to bring in. Earthworm (wound of Urine - 504 sinews) 535 WOMB, Disorders of. Egg oil - 136 Badger (for conception) 40 Finger, the ring 148 Bee sting (ovarian Honey - 243 tumours) 47 Isinglass plaster 262 Bug - 72 Juniper bark 301 Charcoal—Animal 88 Pike cured by tench - 171 Civet (for barrenness) - 83 Saliva - 411 Cows (by Buprestis Skink (poisoned wounds 330 beetle) 56 Silver - 441 Cuttle fish (with con- Slug, slime of - 454 gestion of ovaries) 115 Snipe, a good surgeon - 346 Gall, ox (indurations) - 196 Spermaceti 519 Gold (cancer) - 207 Sun, direct rays of 529 Hare heels 224 Urine - 501 Hartshorn 231 Veal - 53 Loach (makes prolific) 114 Yarrow and goose turd 213 Silver, irritable 440 Wax, oil of 517 [C0NCEE2JING the animal excrements named above as foi-mer medicinal Simples, these, unless recent, and quickly dried, would undergo rapid fermentation, whilst giving off fetid smells in the presence of ah and moisture: compounds of ammonia, phosphorus, and sulphuretted hydrogen, would be then evolved. But it is to be noted that no noxious excretine, such as human ordure produces, is contained in the droppings of herbivorous animals. A substance of the same nature is found, together with an acid of butter, in those of carnivorous mammals. Man discharges from the kidneys much of the phosphorus taken in his food: not so the cow, the horse, and the sheep, which reject this phosphorus in their solid di-oppings.]