Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-11

cred a cure for cutaneOus disorders, but
that inwardly taken it is poisonous. The
Ghoorkas (Hinalaya) believe that the fat
Of the tiger is specific against rheumat-
ism. The Chinese ascribe wonderful med
icinal properties to every part of the tigers
body. Davidson, in his ''Notes taken dur
ing Travels in Africa, says of the be-
zoar: g had three of the fam
ed serpent-stones brought me to
purchase. They fetch very high prices,
as they are remedy for the bite of the
reptile, and are used as most costly medi-
cine. I made several offers. The men had
refused twenty-five ducats for the three-a
large sum for Moor to give and an Arab
to refuse. They are generally brought
from Sudan; these, however, were taken
from m hoe, which is a kind of antelope,
and are called Selsi in the Mandingo Ian
guage. They are used as an antidote in
case of poison, and are applied also to
pains and bruises. .s..... ...
Though hard such strange relations to receive,
Who dare deny what thousands dare believe 2"
In Germany the tongue of the caper-
caile is considered by many an excellent
preseryative against the pains of dentition.
Sewn up in a little bag, it is hung round
the infants neck.
Among the Swiss it was generally believ
ed that a few drops of the blood of the
steinbock, poured into glass Of wine and
taken before going to bed, produced imme-
diately violent perspiration, and cured
all sorts of diseases. The very ball with
which he was shot had it's use for water
into which it was dipped acquired valuable
medical properties. The shall, sort
of bezoar or morbid secretion, sometimes
found in the stomach of this animal, was
used as medicine It used to sell for its
weight in gold. Upon its virtues whole
treatises have been written.
| The horn Of the stag was long supposed
| to possess great medicinal virtues, espec-
tally the right or off horn, which it was
said was rarely found, and consequently
was the more highly priced. Michael Dray
ton, in note to his description Of a stag
hunt, says 'the hart weepeth at his dying;
his tears are held to be precious in medi-
cine" Deer horns, when in ssvelvet, are
eagerly bought by the Chinese, being es-
teemed valuable medicament.
Album qroecune, the white bony excre-
ment of the dog, bleached on the bank,
was long deemed efficacious in heart pains
and acidities.
Among the Turkomans the horns and
hoofs of the goat are burned to ashes, and
are then employed for the CALLED places on
camels. The blood of goat was once
thought sovereign remedy for the stone.
The goat was fed with sssaxifragoJls herbs
and such as were conceived of power to
break the stone" The blood of q goat,
when fresh and warm had the property, it
was supposed, of making soft the diamond,
the hardest of all stones. The gall of
bear is valued by the Chinese at its weight
in gold. -........
''In every tench's head, says Tzaak Wal
ton, ''there are two little stones which for
eign physicians make great use of; but he
is not commended for wholesome meat,
though there be very much use made Of
them for outward application. Rondele-
tius says that at his being at Rome he saw
great cure done by applying a tench to
the feet Of a very sick man." He then calls
the tench ''the physician of fshes-for the
pike especially; and that the pike, being
either sick or hurt is cured by the touch
Of the tench." Gesner says that the fat
of a grayling, being set with little
honey day or two in the sun. in a glass
SIS very excellent against redness or swar-
tbiness or anything that breeds in the eye
The same authority declares that the Jaw
bones and hearts and gall ofPikes are very
medicinable for several. diseases. or to stop
blood, to abate fevers, to cure agues, to op-
pose or expel the infection of the plague,
&c. A writer OF the 18th century says that
''the physicians make the gals and stones
in the heads of carps to be very medicinal
BILE.
Mr. Yarren in his ''Histsry of British
Fishes, states that the oil extracted from
the ling is used by the poor as medicine,
and Mr., Couch says that those who have
been able to overcome the repugnance ar
ising from its nauseous smell and taste in
siet that it is very effectual in severe cases
ofrheumatism, when taken in small beer
in doses of from half all ounce to an ounce
and a half.
At this time cod-liver oil is generally
used. In Newfoundland the process of
making this article is very simple. The
livers, fresh from the fish and nearly white,
are carefully washed and thrown. into a
caldron heated bysteam, where they grad
ually dissolve into oil, which is dipped
while hot, and strained first through conf
cal felt bags and then through those of
white moleskin, from which it runs pure.
In this state it is barreled for market.
The cuttle-bone. of the sepiado8 was for
merly employed as an antiacid by apothe-
carries.