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Andrea Bacci, Andrea Bacci (1524–1600) was an Italian physician and philosopher, famous for his works on natural history and wines. book concerning the Elk.

Alces [Elk], from original: "ἀλκή" strength, a Great Beast: it is a social animal, cloven-hoofed, resembling a Deer in shape though it is larger; it is timid by nature and subject to the falling sickness: a historical term for epilepsy, known in Latin as "morbus comitialis" because public assemblies (comitia) were suspended if someone suffered a seizure. They report that not every animal of this species is seized by the epileptic evil, and that the hoof of the female possesses no power in this regard, but only that of the Male; nor the young, but the adults, and specifically at that time when they begin to be driven by original: "in Venerem ferri," a poetic way of describing the mating urge or rutting season. desire (between the feast of the Assumption of Mary August 15th. and her birth September 8th.). They even attribute more power to the rear hooves than the front ones, and of these, some prefer the right foot (which is more common), others the left. There are those who maintain these hooves must be cut from the animal while it is still alive at the aforementioned time.

Physicians use the Hoof and Sinews in a dose from a half-scruple: a small unit of weight used by apothecaries, roughly 0.65 grams. to one scruple, administered with a specific vehicle: a liquid substance, such as water or wine, used to deliver a medicine.

The Hoof is celebrated for its specific virtue against epi-