CHAP. 37.—REMEDIES FOR EPILEPSY.
Epileptic patients, as already [Note] stated, are recommended to
drink the rennet of the sea-calf, [Note] mixed with mares' milk or
asses' milk, or else with pomegranate juice, or, in some cases,
with oxymel: some persons, too, swallow the rennet by itself,
in the form of pills. Castoreum [Note] is sometimes administered, in
three cyathi of oxymel, to the patient fasting; but where the
attacks are frequent, it is employed in the form of a clyster,
with marvellous effect. The proper proportions, in this last case,
are two drachmæ of castoreum, one sextarius of oil and honey,
and the same quantity of water. At the moment that the
patient is seized with a fit, it is a good plan to give him castoreum,
with vinegar, to smell. The liver, too, of the sea-
weasel [Note]
is given to epileptic patients, or else that of sea-mice, [Note]
or the blood of tortoises.