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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.