APPENDIX 267 



WORMING A DOG. This was supposed to be 

 a preventive to the power of a mad dog's bite. It was 

 a superstition promulgated in very early times, and seems 

 to have been believed in until comparatively recent times. 

 We find it repeated in one book of vencry after another, 

 French, English, and German : in England by our 

 author, Turbervile, Markham, and others. 



Pliny suggests this operation, and he quotes Columna 

 as to the efficacy of cutting off a dog's tail when he is 

 very young (Pliny, chap. xli.). 



G. de F. and the Duke of York are careful to say 

 that they only give the remedy for what it is worth, 

 the latter saying : " Thereof make I no affirmation," and 

 further on : " Notwithstanding that men call it a worm 

 it is but a great vein that hounds have underneath their 

 tongue" (p. 87). 



