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coming out of the nose. Also there is another 

 sickness of hounds, the which cometh to them in 

 their throats and sometime cometh so to men in 

 such wise that they may not keep down their meat, 

 and so they must cast it out again. In some time 

 the sickness is so strong on them, that they can 

 keep nothing down in their bodies and so die. 

 The best medicine is to let them go wherever they 

 will, and let them eat all that ever they will. For 

 sometime the contrary things turneth them to 

 good. And give them to eat flesh right small 

 cut, and put in broth or in goat's milk a little, 

 and a little because that they may swallow it 

 down without labour, and give him not too much 

 at once, that they may digest better. And also 

 buttered eggs doeth them much good. And 

 sometimes the hounds hurt themselves in their 

 feet, and in their legs, and in their breast. And 

 when it is in the joints of their feet that be run 

 out of their places, the best help that there is is 

 to bring them again into joint, by such men as 

 can well do it, and then lay upon that place flax 

 wetted in white of egg, and let them rest until 

 the time that they be whole. And if there be any 

 broken bones men should knit it again in the best 

 wise, the one bone against that other and bind it 

 with flax above as I have said, and with four 

 splints well bound thereto that one against that 

 other, because that the bone should not unjoin, 



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