Nits are destroyed by using dogs' fat, eating serpents cooked[1]
like eels, or else taking their sloughs in drink. Porrigo is
cured by applying sheep's gall with Cimolian chalk, and rubbing the head with the mixture till dry.
1. A recipe well understood in the restaurants of the French provinces,
Ajasson says, but it is doubtful whether with the object named byour author.