Latin Texts & Translations

The ashes of a burnt weasel, mixed with wax, are a cure for pains in the shoulders. To prevent the arm-pits of young persons from becoming hairy, they should be well rubbed with ants' eggs. Slave-dealers also, to impede the growth of the hair in young persons near puberty, employ the blood that

flows from the testes of lambs when castrated. This blood, too, applied to the arm-pits, ^[Note] the hairs being first pulled out, is a preventive of the rank smell of those parts.