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[Tudorcook]

<snip> >Remedy for pain of the flank/midsection
>> >      Take nine woodlice/cochineals of some that walk
>> under
>> >the orange trees that, in arriving to them, make
>> themselves
>> >ball-shaped (1).
>...
>> >
>> >1: that roll up into balls when disturbed?
>> Or possibly "that, when they are approached, make little
>> balls of
>> themselves" ?
>>
>
>Or possibly, looking at this again, "that, when arriving
>to/at them [the orange trees], make themselves into
>balls-like things" -- perhaps something that causes burls?
>
<snip>

Hi!

Woodlice are sow bugs, "small crustaceans used in medicine".(Cassel's
Spanish Dict.) "Any of various small terrestrial isopod crustaceans,
chiefly of the genera Oniscus and Porcellio, commonly found under logs or
stones and having an oval, segmented body." (American Heritage Dict.)

We have them in NY/NJ.  If you touch them they curl up in a little ball, &
you can play with them like marbles.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/woodlice/photos/oniscus_asellus.html - a picture of 1 kind
http://www.dryad.demon.co.uk/julies/woodlice.htm - Woodlice page
http://www.homeoint.org/allen/o/onis.htm - homeopathy page using woodlice

HTH.

Cindy