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,' dc  melts , and diflolves, which diffinguiffles it
1Thcriica. from the adulterate, falfe Civet. It is faid the
c''*    Civet of the male is whitifhi, that of the female
        Lion-coloured at firfc after a weak, but white
        alfo at firfc gathering. An ounce of the females
        is worth four of the males. They mix fix ounces
        of this with one of that, and fo it is perfet; the
        males alone is little worth.
How f}-  It is many wayes fophifficated,as mixed with
1)1)lltica- butter , or the 1ift pulp of larger raifins, or
        'Libibus, and with rank fat,or butter,or cheefc,
        put a little in a filver fpoon on embers with
        thofe forefaid things,it renders them fweet like
        it.The fweeteft Civet is right, and belt. It is faid
Righlt  that the right,ifput into feething water,flotes at
       top, and all heterogeneous ftuffe finkes from
       it; but we have found in fome the rank butter,
       fo that it feems the feparation is not fo perfe6t.
       The belt Civet gains a colour, as a dusky web,
       but at the bottome waxes white; the fophifti-
       cate is of the fame colour at bottome,and top.
       It is to be kept only in glafIe.
                CHAPTER X.
          Of the ufe, and porer of Civet.
IT hath a double ufe, the Druggifls regard
    only the fent, Phyfitians the vertue. Drug-
    gifts fay a little Civet overcomes many
    fents in compofitions,fo that you fhall fmell
only that fimple pouder of Civet, is made of
Sugar-candy, and Civet beaten together to
pouder,whicli is kept ima glaf~e-viol clofe fiut.
Some take eg-flhells walht, and dried, and
bruize them to a fine powder, and in each
ounce put three cara6ts of Civet; a carad
weighs four grains ; or they take two ounce
weight of prepared eg-fliells , infufing them
in Rofe warer, musked ten, or twelve dayes,
they dry, crumble, fears theem, put an ounce of
refined fugar to them, then put embers into a
brafre mortor, till it be fo hote, as you can en-
dure to handle it, then wipe it, and put in the
eg duftfmooth it with the peflle,pmt to it fibur
caradts of Civet, mingling it by degrees with
the peflle end annointed,the fpace of an houre,
then keep it in glaffe clofe Ihut, and fprinkle
the pouder on whitened Iheets,lhirts,and other
garments.
  Some take the befl ordinary fope, fliceit
fmall , dry it in the fun,or 1hade ten dayes,
bruize, farfe it, then add Civet-pouder, and
ball it with Rofe-water.
  Of Civet alfo are made oyls, oiatments,and
perfumes.
  The skin of the belly is fouverain in all cold
greefs. A bit of it worne on the flomack
itrengthens it. The Guinee, and Brafil Blacks
eat the fleffh, though it be unfavoury, and hard
ofdigeftion to make them lufiy.The Hyxnaes
skin is alfo good againft tle bite of a dog.  in
Candy a Nfip. wracked Barbarian being driven
on fhoar, that being elderly,and maintained on
the publick purfe, related that a piece of the
Hyanaes skin tied in a cloath, and bound
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about the left arme helped againIf bitoe,
cramp, &c. It is fiaid, Iliocs made of a Sea- M ,r-l.,
I calfs or rather of an Hvirines skin. drives -I -.
away the foot-gout. It is good againlt the bite m
of a mad dog,if bound on. it is paft beleef * >1l*2.
that the Phocas, and Hyxnaes skin make thun- 16 ,.
der proof, and that they carry them about in c,9
fhips to that end. Surely Avicen knew Civet '
liavour under the name of Galia, and Algalia, I
which was not Gallia Mofchata, for he fpeaks
of fimplc medicines, not compounds. And
Aloalia is TIor Seranions Setderva -wlicl a
coldjuice of an herb, and altringent,as Acacia.
Befides the vertue is the fame of Civet, withA
Avicens Algalia,as to foften lard impoflumes,
and diffolved in Ben-oyl, or Keiri, and droped
in,eafes a fore ear; the fent helps epilcpfy, enl-
livens, and affwages the cold foda;in toxicates
the brain in wine; the fentclheers the heartand
in luppofitories is good for the mother, and
againft p hlegma, and provoke terms, cleanfes
the mother, h elps conception. So that Civet,
Algalia, and Gala are all one, for all is but arn
Arabique article.
  SomecountC ivethot, andmoyft,others Td
dry, fome, a kin toMusk; butAvicen holdsI lt.Mpr
Musk hote, and dry in the fecond degrec. But 'dt 1tiii
if it be a fiveat, t he Hyxina be   very hote
beafs, and that abounding ii nhot weather; and
when the beaft is heated by anger, or lotion,
itm ullt needs be chollerick, lot, and dry,ando
of a digeftivenature.
  But there is no certainty, becaufe noneGaln TO.'
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AJUW INC  a[L0 1i It. ali all IWCea lb o1 01 i1 ILla
and when the beaft fweatsthe Civet hath fome
eagernes in it.  It is certainely hot, dry, and
harlh. Befides fweat difgefls, and allays Aweli-
lings, is Algala.  But Caffor Durantes hism
medicine for the matrix, feei~e to be madeo
of the genitals.  Lay but Civet on the hollowR itito
of thenavell, it turns the mother.  Itis ufed 114.a
alfo againli the ftoppings of the womb, and
barrennes. Read Rod. G Caftro 1. 2. de mor. mul.c
C. I.  The lhape of it in the beaft, fpeaks forw
what parts it is good. Hew it helps generation,P
Rodpr Fnnf"ra , ,rnIlt I.-, fliewA Anti mmivw
- Nj __- . -_ - -j -- - I J- - - - ...- - -
write how tifefull it isa gaitift all womb-gricfs.
Briefly, it eafeft the Collick.
  Wee read nothing in our late writers of oyl "VIE; il is
of the gall and fat of the Civet-cat , buti.j.111MI
among the ancients of the Hyxna, as in Galen
de coins. med. 10C. C. 7. &C - &Vian. H. 4. 1. 6.
c. 46. writes, that the gall kills the Ibis. Galen,
that the Hyxnaesfat breeds hair, it being
thin, and pearcug to the roots ofthe hair. The 7E itis
fame doth the whole HYXDa, bovled in oyl, as
the Fox. There are many vertues in Fox-oyl, c. 164.
all which are found in HyxDas-oyl. The live
Hyxna boyld in oyl, makes a difcuffory oyl,
excellent for the joynt-gout.
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