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Excerpt from The Banner of the Bull: Three Episodes in the Career of Cesare Borgia
He knew, for instance, that the oil of scorpions captured in sunshine during the period of Sol in Scorpio a most essential condition this was an infallible cure for the plague. He knew that to correct an enlargement of the spleen, the certain way was to take the spleen of a goat, apply it for four-and-twenty hours to the affected part, and thereafter expose it to the sun; in a measure as the goat''s spleen should desiccate and wither, in such measure should the patient''s spleen be reduced and restored to health. He knew that the ashes of a wolf''s skin never failed as a remedy for baldness, and that to arrest bleeding at the nose nothing could rival an infusion from the bark of an olive-tree, provided the bark were taken from a young tree in the case of a young patient, and from an old tree in the case of an old patient. He knew that serpents stewed in wine, and afterwards eaten, would make sound and whole a leper, by conferring upon him the serpent'' 3 faculty of changing lts skin.
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He knew, for instance, that the oil of scorpions captured in sunshine during the period of Sol in Scorpio a most essential condition this was an infallible cure for the plague. He knew that to correct an enlargement of the spleen, the certain way was to take the spleen of a goat, apply it for four-and-twenty hours to the affected part, and thereafter expose it to the sun; in a measure as the goat''s spleen should desiccate and wither, in such measure should the patient''s spleen be reduced and restored to health. He knew that the ashes of a wolf''s skin never failed as a remedy for baldness, and that to arrest bleeding at the nose nothing could rival an infusion from the bark of an olive-tree, provided the bark were taken from a young tree in the case of a young patient, and from an old tree in the case of an old patient. He knew that serpents stewed in wine, and afterwards eaten, would make sound and whole a leper, by conferring upon him the serpent'' 3 faculty of changing lts skin.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Rafael Sabatini
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ISBN - 9780484714976
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 266
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