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wonderfully. Against foot-swellings and scathes, a hare’s lung bound on above and beneath: the steps are healed wonderfully. For the women whose fœtus perishes, dry a hare’s heart and work [it] to dust with a third part of frankincense dust; administer it to be drunk for seven days in clear wine. Next, to those from whom it often gets loose [administer it] for thirty days, either in wine or in a preparation of worts. Next, for the women who after childbirth are ill-at-ease in some places, reduce the same to a drink, for them fasting, in warm water: [the case] will soon be healed. Against dimness of eyes, a hare’s gall mingled with honey and smeared with: the eyes become bright. Against sore of bladder [shred into the man’s drink] a hare’s sinews dried, [and roasted with salt, and fried; it cures wonderfully. Against bite of spider, prepare a hare’s sinews] and give them [the man] to take; it is also good if one swallows them raw. They are also good against nausea, if boiled. Against falling hair boil or roast on a pan in good oil a hare’s womb: smear the hair and the head: then the hair holds on and the salve compels that it shall grow. In order that a woman may give birth to a male child, a hare’s belly dried and cut into slices or rubbed into a drink: let them both (man and wife) drink [it]; if the wife alone drinks it, then she will give birth to an hermaphrodite, that is as naught, neither man nor woman. Again for the same, after her cleansing, give the woman a hare’s testicles to drink in wine: then will she conceive a male child. In order that