OF SICKNESSES OF HOUNDS 95 



until the time that the hound's eyes be whole, and 

 also it is good to put therein of the Sousse ^ of the 

 which men find enough at the apothecary's for the 

 same sickness, and if the nail were so hard grown 

 and so strong that he might not be healed there- 

 with, take a needle and bow it in the middle that 

 it be crooked, and take well and subtly the flesh 

 that is upon the eye with the needle and draw it 

 up on high, and then cut it with a razor, but 

 take good care that the needle touch not the eye. 

 These things the smiths can do well,^ for as the 

 nail is drawn out of a horse's eye, right so it must 

 be drawn out of the hound's eye, and without fault 

 he shall be whole. And also another sickness 

 Cometh into the hound's ears the which cometh 

 out of the rewme (cold) of the head of the hound, 

 for they claw themselves so much with the hinder 

 feet that they make much foul things come out 

 thereof, and so out of her ears cometh much foul 

 things, and some time thereof they become deaf. 

 Therefore they should take wine luke-warm and 

 with a cloth wash it well, and clean three or four 

 times in the day, and when it is washed ye should 

 cast therein oil and camomile milk, warm, three 

 drops, and suffer him not to claw it nor rub it a 

 great while, and do so continually until the time 



1 Shirley MS. has " foussye," G. de F. (p. 92) "de la poudre 

 de la tutie," oxide of zinc. 



2 Shirley MS. adds : "that be marshals for horses." 



