SC - Culinary uses for horns

[Jenne Heise]

> However, to get back on track a bit, it suggests that either the use of
> a horn as a funnel and, um, opening-widener was well-known, or that they
> had such a horn lying around for multiple purposes, including the rather
> peculiar one to which it was finally put in the case of Edward II.
> Adamantius

Well, judging from an illustration reproduced in Blunt's _The Illustrated
herbal_ (sorry, Istvan has my copy in order to illumine our charter so I
can't tell you where the original illustration is from), horn-shaped
thingies were used for the purposes of administering enemas in period.

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