OF SICKNESSES OF HOUNDS loi 



And then take five corns of spurge ^ and stamp 

 them and temper them with goat's milk or with 

 broth, and put it in the hound's throat to the 

 amount of a glassful. And if he may not piss 

 take the leaves of leeks and of a herb that is called 

 marrubium album ^ and of modirwort ^ and of 

 peritorie * and morsus galline ^ and of nettles and 

 parsley leaves as much of the one as of the other, 

 and stamp them with swine's grease therewith, and 

 make a plaster thereof, and make it a little hot, 

 and lay it upon the hound's yerde and along his 

 belly, and that which is hard to understand ye 

 shall find at the apothecary's, the which know 

 well all these things. Also to the hounds cometh 

 sores, that cometh to them under the throat or 

 in other parts of the body. Then take ye of the 



^ Etiphorbia resinife?'a, common spurge, exudes a very acrid 

 milky juice which dries into a gum resin. Still used for some 

 plasters. 



^ Marrubium vulgare. G. de F. marrabre bla7ic^ Eng. white 

 horehound. It enjoyed a great reputation as a stimulating 

 expectorant employed in asthma, consumption, and other 

 pulmonary affections. 



^ Leonurus cardiaca. G. de F. Artemise, Eng. Motherwort, 

 Mod. Fr. armoise. A plant allied to the horehound as a vascular 

 stimulant and diuretic and a general tonic, employed in dropsy, 

 gout, rheumatism, and uterine disorders. 



* Parietaria. Eng. Wall pellitory. An old domestic remedy. 

 It was supposed to be astringent and cooling, and used locally 

 for inflammation, burns, erysipelas, and internally as a diuretic. 

 It grows on old walls and heaps of rubbish. 



^ Morsus gallinus. 



