_Cow's Dung._ This seems to be of a hot penetrating Nature; and is experienc'd to do good in Erysipelous Swellings. This Cataplasm is also highly commended by some in the _Gout_. _Pigeon's Dung_ is sometimes ordered in Cataplasms, to be applied to the soles of the Feet in malignant Fevers and Deliriums. _Hog's Dung._ Is also used by the Country People to stop Bleeding at the Nose; by being externally applied cold to the Nostrils.--_English Dispensatory_ (_Quincy_), London, 1742.
Take a peec of Salt Beef & Rost it in the hott Ashes then make it Cleane & put it into the wound & the blood will stop imediatly
_For To Make a Man Vomit Presently That Is Sick at His Stomack_
Take white Copperes [dram]i in powder in a Litle Beere or Water & it will Cause one to vomit presently
[85] _Pleurisy. Stone-Horse Dung_, seems to owe its present Credit in medicine to the modern Practice. It is certainly of great Efficacy in _Pleurisies_, _Inflammations_, and _Obstructions_ of the _Breast_. In all these Intentions it is now very much prescribed.--_English Dispensatory_ (_Quincy_), London, 1742.
Take the Leaues of wild mallows & boyl them in Oyle & being taken out bray them in a morter & put them into a peece of Lining Cloth & applie it to the greue and presently it will Cause the paine to Cease Don Alexis
Take an Apple that is of a Sweete sente & taste in it a hole taking out the Core so that the hole goeth not thorow & put into the hole 3 or 4 graines of Frankincense of the male Kind Otherwise Called olibanum then Couer againe the saide hole with the Little Pece of Apple that you tooke of first & rost it apon the Embers so that it burne not but that it may waxe tender then take it from the fire and breake it into fower parts with all the frankencense in it & so giue the patient it to eate it will by & by make the Impostume to break & heale him
Take howse leeke Catts blod[86] and Creame mixed together & oynt the place warme or take the moss that groweth in a well & Catts blod mixed & so aply it warme to the plase whare the shingles be
[86] _Goat's Blood_ is mentioned in the English Dispensatory of 1742 as "deservedly almost forgot."
[87] _Quintessence of Vipers._ Fat Snakes, Adders or Vipers in June, cast away their heads, bowels and gall, cut them into bits, and dry them in a warm Balneo; then put them into a bolt head with Alcohol of Wine, so much as may overtop them eight fingers breadth; seal the glass Hermetically, and digest for twenty days in Balneo, then decant, etc., etc.