Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

  • Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    lO SHAKESPEARE'S [ant. anointed with lion's dirt [kidney-fat]. If the tail of an old wolf be hanged at the cows' stall the wolves will not come there nigh. Bear's eyes taken out of the head, and bound together under the right arm of man, abateth the fever quartan. Also the long teeth of a wolf healeth lunatic men. Tame four-footed beasts dread and flee if they see a wolf's eye taken out of the head. If thou besmokest the house with the lungs of an ass thou cleansest the house of serpents and other creeping worms. Bartholomezv {Berthe/et), bk. xviii. § i. Ant. Sometimes he angers me With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant. i. King Henry IV., iii. i, 149. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labourin| i' the winter. King Lear, ii. 4, 68. Sleight and business of them is much. For in summer they gather store by the which they may live in winter;