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Extracts from the writings of Dioscorides.—The
views of Galen.—Sextus Placitus.—“Saxon
Leechdoms.”—Avicenna.—Miscellaneous.—Human
Ordure.—Schurig’s ideas regarding the use in
medicine of the egestæ of animals.—Ordure and
urine in folk-medicine.—Occult influences ascribed
to ordure and urine.—Other excrementitious
remedies.—Hair.—Superstitions connected with
the human saliva.—Cerumen or ear-wax.—Woman’s
milk.—Human sweat.—Superstitions connected with the
catamenial fluid.—After-birth and lochiæ.—Human
semen.—Human blood.—Human skin, flesh, and
tallow.—Human skull.—Brain.—Moss growing on human
skull.—Moss growing on statue.—Lice.—Wool.—Bones
and teeth.—Marrow.—Human teeth.—Tartar impurities
from the teeth.—Renal and biliary calculi.—Human
bile.—Bezoar stones.—Lyncurius.—Cosmetics.