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milk warm, and then put therein honey and salt, 

 so that the sickness shall not come again, and then 

 put again the yerde within the skin as it was before, 

 and look every week that the sickness come not 

 again, and take it always out if aught come thereto 

 until the time that it be whole. And in the same 

 wise a man should do to a bitch, if such a sickness 

 were taken in her nature. In this sickness many 

 hounds and bitches die for default of these cures, 

 whereof all hunters have not full knowledge. 

 Sometimes the hounds have a great sickness that 

 they may not piss, and be lost thereby and also 

 when they may not scombre (dung). Then take 

 ye the root of a cabbage and put it in olive oil, 

 and put it in his fundament so that ye leave 

 some of the end without, so much that it may 

 be drawn out when it is needful. And if he 

 may not be whole thereby make him a clyster as 

 men do to a man, of mallows, of beets, and of 

 mercury, a handful of each, and of rue and of 

 incense, and that all these things be boiled in water 

 and put bran within, and let pass all that water 

 through a strainer, and thereto put two drachms 

 of agarite ^ and of honey and of olive oil, and all 

 this together put into his anus and he shall scombre. 



^ Agarys, G. de Y. (fai^rct, probably at^riniony, Lat. agri- 

 monta. It is bitter and styptic, and was much valued in 

 domestic medicine ; a decoction of it being used as a gargle 

 and the dried leaves as a kind of tea, and the root as a 

 vermifuge. 



