227. Pingedo: i.e. fat; one sort of it is hot and dry, and another sort is hot and wet; the fat of castrated animals is better for medical purposes than that of animals who have not been so deprived; the older the animal is, the better will the fat be; the fat of hens and cocks is the best. If the fat of geese and bears be rubbed on the head that is bare, hair will grow on it. If the same fat be rubbed on lesions of the mouth, it will help with them. If the fat of fish be rubbed together with honey on the eyes, it will help with wetness of the eyes. If grease of deer be put in ointments for people with spasm, it will give them relief. If fat of goats be put in constrictive clysters against dysentery, it will serve excellently. It is said that fat of lions and bulls is hot and dry and fat of the other animals is hot and wet; Ysaac says that every fat is incompatible to the digestion, because it generates oppilation in the organs, as we have said.