[399] ¶ Ad caducos: Galli testiculos contritos cum aqua ieiuno dabis bibere. abstineant autem a vino diebus decem, caducis remedium est. Debebunt autem testiculi sicci servari, ut cum fuerint necessarii, continuo sumantur, Sextus et Constantinus. Ad comitiales[1]: Gallinacei testes ex aqua et lacte quidam bibendos censent, antecedente quinque dierum abstinentia vini, ob id inveteratos, Plinius[2]. Galli gallinacei testiculos in pulverem tritos ex aqua et lacte ieiuno propinato, idque diebus quinque facito, vino autem abstinendum est, Trallianus hoc se ex Gallia accepisse scribens. Serapion pro epilepticis probat medicamen confectum e testibus galli gallinacei: Caelius Aurelianus, improbans ipse ut videtur.

¶  For epileptics: You will give to drink minced testicles of rooster on empty stomach with water. But it represents a remedy for the epileptics if they abstain for ten days from wine. And the testicles will have to be preserved dried, so that when needed they can be assumed without interruption, Sextus Placitus Papiriensis and Constantinus Africanus. For epileptics: Some are thinking that the testicles of rooster must be drunk with water and milk, preceded by abstinence from wine of five days, and that's why they are aged, Pliny. Give to drink on empty stomach with water and milk the crushed testicles of rooster. And repeat this for five days, but to abstain from wine is needed, Alexander of Tralles who writes he received this information from Gaul. Serapion for epileptics praises a medicine prepared with testicles of rooster: while Caelius Aurelianus, as it seems, disapproves this.

¶ Gallinaceum fimum omnia quae columbinum, sed inefficacius, praestat, Dioscor. minus calidum est columbino, Galenus. Et rursus, Caeterum ut in aliis omnibus animalium partibus aut excrementis plurimum refert, montanisne locis, an in pratis, paludibus, lacubus et aedibus versentur. Semper enim quae exercentur, iis quae non exercentur sunt sicciora: et quae cibis utuntur calidioribus siccioribusque iis quae humidis frigidisque. Itaque ut columbarum stercus semper imbecillius expertus sum quae in domibus degunt quam nomadum et montanarum: sic gallinarum quoque inveni multo infirmius earum quae conclusae servantur et furfuribus aluntur, non paulo autem valentius earum quae in agris, atriis aut foris pascuntur. Stercoris gallinacei pulli drachmae duae dissolutae in multa aqua calida, et potae, vomitum movent, Arnoldus de Villan. Stercus galli cum succo prasii datum, mox vomitum proritat, Idem. Certo educit per vomitum. quare contra venena propinatur, Ferdinand. Ponzettus. Idem {Gaynerius} <Guainerius>. scribit, sed misceri iubet, cum lini urticaeve semine in aqua decocto, aut aqua et butyro, etc. Ad felis morsum galli stercus liquidum cum adipe gallinaceo subigito et imponito, Aetius. Idem ex aceto impositum morsibus canis rabidi, salutare traditur, Kiranides. Gallinaceum fimum privatim contra venena fungorum bibitur ex aceto aut vino, (vel oxymelite, Rasis,) Dioscor. Nicander contra idem venenum commendat πάτον στρουθοῖο κατοικάδος (ὀπτόν.) Galenus etiam adversus strangulationem a devoratis fungis gallinarum domesticarum fimum cum oxymelite bibi consulit, in Euporistis 1.131. nimirum  ut vomitus subsequatur. Cum medicum quendam in Mysia gallinaceo utentem stercore conspexissem, in eis qui ab esu fungorum suffocabantur: et ipse quoque sum usus in quibusdam urbem inhabitantibus, qui et ipsi fungos esitarant, ipsum videlicet ad l{a}evorem contritum tribus quatuorve oxycrati aut oxymelitis inspergens cyathis. et palam adiuti sunt, idque celeriter. nam qui praefocabantur, paulo post vomebant pituitosum humorem omnino crassissimum, et exinde plane liberati sunt symptomate, Galenus lib. 10. de simplicibus. Vide etiam inferius inter remedia ex candida parte huius fimi.

¶ The dung of chicken offers all that is offered by that of pigeon, but it is less effective, Dioscorides. It is less warm than that of pigeon, Galen. And again: However, like for all the remaining parts of the animals or their excrements, it is very important if they are living in mountain places, or in meadows, in swamps, in lakes and in buildings. In fact, those taking some exercise are more dry than those not taking it: and so also those using more warm and dry foods than those feeding on more damp and cold ones. Therefore, like I have experience of the fact that the dung of pigeons living in dovecotes is always less effective in comparison with that of stray and of mountain subjects: likewise I have found that that of hens is very less effective if they are kept shut up and fed on bran, and is very better that of hens going to graze in fields, under porticos or in markets' squares. Two drachmas [6.42 g] of poultry's dung dissolved in a lot of warm water, and drunk, cause vomiting, Arnaldo from Villanova. The dung of rooster, given with juice of horehound, causes vomiting at once, still Arnoldo. Without doubt it makes expel thanks to vomit. That's why it is given to drink against poisons, Ferdinando Ponzetto. Antonio Guainerio writes the same thing, but prescribes to mix it with linseed or with seed of nettle and cooked in water, or in water and butter, etc. Against the bite of cat mix liquid dung of rooster with fat of chicken and put it on, Aetius of Amida. They hand down that the same dung prepared with vinegar and applied on bites of a rabid dog, turns out as curative, Kiranides. The dung of chicken is drunk with vinegar or with wine especially against the poisons of mushrooms (or with sour-honey – a mixture of vinegar and honey, Razi), Dioscorides. Nicander of Colophon against the same kind of poison recommends páton strouthoîo katoikádos (optón), that is, excrement of domestic hen sparrow - of hen - (toasted). Also Galen – Oribasius - against the suffocation from eaten mushrooms - muscarinic syndrome - prescribes to drink dung of domestic hens with sour-honey, in Euporista 1^st,131. Obviously, so that the vomit is arising. Since I had seen in Mysia a physician using dung of chicken in those facing suffocation because ate mushrooms: I also used it for some inhabitants of Rome who also ate mushrooms, and precisely, after I powdered it until be almost impalpable, dredging it with three or four cyathi [150-200 ml] of water and vinegar or of sour-honey. And they glaringly derived benefit from it, and quickly. In fact those who were suffocating, soon after vomited a liquid similar to catarrh and very thick, and from that moment they became completely free from symptomatology, Galen in 10^th book of De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis et facultatibus. See also more ahead, among the remedies drawn from the white part of this dung

¶ Gallinarum fimum recens illitum alopecias celerrime explet, Plinius[3]. Gallinaceorum stercus cum oleo utroque (non explicat quibusnam) permixtum, alopeciis utile est, Marcellus. Cum aceto alopeciis impositum prodest, Rasis et Kiranides. Si prius fricetur locus cum panno et cepe donec rubeat, Rasis. Aridum quoque tritum cum nitro et arido (vox corrupta) unguento alopeciam inspissat, Kiranid. Recens adpositum podagris, plurimum iuvat, Marcellus et Plinius[4]. Perniones quae nascuntur in manibus impositum sanat, et omnes morsus, Constantinus. Est qui gallinae perducat stercore corpus, Serenus inter carbonis (carbunculi) remedia. De usu huius stercoris ad fistulam curandam, scripsimus in Rubeta G. {Phlegmonas} <Phlegmones> quae nascuntur in naribus impositum sanat, Aesculapius. Furunculo medicando: Praetereaque fimum, ex gallo quod legeris albo | Imbribus ex acidis fidens appone dolenti, Serenus. Vide etiam infra inter remedia ex rufa parte huius fimi. Fimum gallinaceum cum oleo et nitro clavos pedum sanat, Plinius[5]. Marcellus pulli gallinacei fimum rubrum clavellis frequenter illinendum consulit. Fimum gallinaceum recens inunctum, contusiones ex calciamentis sanat. aufert etiam myrmecia{s}[6], Kiranides. Si fiat ex eo cataplasma cum melle, id illitum crustam ignis Persici rumpit, Rasis.

¶ The fresh dung of hen when smeared makes the alopecias recover with extreme rapidity, Pliny. The dung of chicken mixed with both kinds of oil (he doesn't specify what kind), is useful for alopecias, Marcellus Empiricus. It is helpful in alopecias applied with vinegar, Razi and Kiranides. If with a piece of cloth and some onion the area is firstly rubbed until to redden it, Razi. Also dried and powdered with saltpeter and a dry ointment (corrupt word) makes the alopecia less glabrous, Kiranides. Applied fresh to gouty chalkstones is of extreme utility, Marcellus Empiricus and Pliny. Applied, makes recover the chilblains rising in hands and every kind of bite, Constantinus Africanus. There is someone sprinkling his body with dung of hen, Serenus Sammonicus among the remedies of the coal (of the carbuncle). About the use of this dung for the therapy of a fistula I wrote in the chapter of the rubeta – a poisonous frog, paragraph G. Applied, makes recover the suppurations growing in nostrils, Aesculapius. To treat a pimple: And in addition trusty apply on the patient the dung you picked up from a white rooster and dissolved in sour water, Serenus Sammonicus. See also more ahead among the remedies drawn from the reddish portion of this dung. The dung of chicken with oil and saltpeter makes recover the callosities of feet, Pliny. Marcellus Empiricus prescribes to repeatedly apply red dung of chicken on calluses. The application of fresh dung of chicken makes recover the bruises due to footwear. It makes also disappear the warts without peduncle - or sessile, Kiranides. If a cataplasm is prepared from it with honey, its application makes break the crust of the Persian fire, Razi.

¶ Mactatae recens gallinae ventrem una cum stercore involvito melle, et iumento adhuc calentem in fauces immittito, Pelagonius adversus tussim iumenti e faucibus vel gutture provenientem.

¶ Blend with honey the entrails along with the dung of a just killed hen, and introduce them still warm in mouth of a draught animal, Pelagonius against the cough of a draught animal due to jaws or to throat.

¶ Gallinaceum fimum contra coli cruciatus ex aceto aut vino bibitur, Dioscor. cum aqua calida et melle, Rasis. Medicus quidam Mysus hoc fimum bibendum dabat iis qui diutino coli dolore fuissent vexati ex oenomelite: vel si id non aderat, ex aceto, aut vino aqua diluto, Galenus lib. 10. de simplic. Et rursus in opere de compos. sec. loc. ex Asclepiade: Gallinarum interanea omnia exempta, et in vas fictile coniecta assato, ac trita reponito. usus vero tempore cochlearium unum et dimidium, et seminis dauci Cretici tusi et cribrati tantundem, ex aquae mulsae calidae cyathis tribus exhibeto. In libro quodam Germanico manuscripto albam tantum huius fimi partem adverus colicum affectum e vini cochleario, salubriter bibi legimus.

¶ The dung of chicken is drunk with vinegar or with wine against the pains of the colon, Dioscorides. With warm water and honey, Razi. A physician of the Mysia to those continually tormented by a pain at the colon was giving to drink this dung with wine sweetened with honey or, if this wasn't there, with vinegar or with wine diluted with water, Galen 10^th book of De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis et facultatibus. And again, in the treatise De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos, drawing it from Asclepiades the Young: After all the bowels of the hens have been removed and put in a terracotta vase, fry them, and after you minced put them aside. At proper time you will use a spoon and a half of them and the same amount of seed of Crete's carrot crushed and sieved and you will give to drink with three cyathi [around 150 ml] of warm water sweetened with honey. In a manuscript German book I have read that against the colitis, to be able to recover from it, only the white part of these excrements has to be drunk with a spoon of wine.

¶ Stercus gallinae suffitum secundas educit, Arnoldus Villanov.

¶ The smoked dung of hen makes eject the placenta, Arnaldo from Villanova.

¶ Ad iumentorum remedia: Si equus pennam vorarit, primo uratur in umbilico, deinde in os eius stercus bovis tepidum inseratur: tum fiat phlebotomia. demum omnia interiora gallinae sanae in os eius immittes. Et si ne ita quidem liberatur, minue diligenter ipsum, Rusius[7]. Equo ex pituita per nares laboranti, fimum gallinaceum in nares inflabis, Obscurus. Si equa marem non patitur, gallinaceo fimo cum resina terebinthina trito, naturalia eius linuntur. ea res accendit libidinem, Anatolius. Sunt qui ad ulcera iumentorum utantur fimo gallinac. arido trito cribratoque, inspergentes mane, et vesperi succum sambuci immittentes per dies aliquot: ubi ulcera primum abluerint vino in quo sambuci folia decocta sint cum modico sale.

¶ To prepare some remedies for draught animals: If a horse swallowed a feather, firstly has to be cauterized in navel, then lukewarm dung of bovine has to be put in its mouth: then a bleeding has to be done. Finally you will put in its mouth all the entrails of a healthy hen. And if also in this way it is not freed from the feather, chop it accurately: Lorenzo Rusio. To a horse suffering from nasal catarrh you will blow through nostrils some dung of chicken, an unknown fellow. If a mare doesn't want to mate with the male, her genital area is smeared with dung of chicken crushed with resin of terebinth. This treatment wakes up the lust, Anatolius. There are some using dry crushed and sieved dung of chicken against the ulcers of draught animals making some sprinkles at morning and evening for some days, adding juice of elder: after the ulcers have been before washed with wine in which leaves of elder have been cooked with little salt.