OF SICKNESSES OF HOUNDS 103 



thereby, and then if ye see that it last them longer 

 than three days that they set not their foot to the 

 earth, then slit ye the thigh along and athwart 

 within the thigh, crosswise upon the bone, that is 

 upon the turn bone of the knee behind, and then 

 put thereupon wool wet in olive oil as before is 

 said, for three whole days. And then after anoint 

 the wound with oil without binding as I have said, 

 and he shall heal himself with his tongue. Some- 

 times a hound is evil astyfled,^ so that he shall 

 sometime abide half a year or more ere he be well, 

 and if he be not so tended he will never recover. 

 Then it needeth that ye let him long sojourn 

 until the time that he be whole, until he is no 

 longer halting, that is that one thigh be no greater 

 than the other. And if he may not be all whole, 

 do to him as men do to a horse that is spauled in 

 the shoulder in front, draw throughout a cord of 

 horsehair - and he shall be whole. Sometimes an 

 evil befalls in the ballock purse,^ sometimes from 

 too long hunting or from long journeys, or from 

 rupture,^ or sometimes when bitches be jolly, and 



^ Inflammation of the stifle joint. 



2 Seto7i. G. de F. (p. 98) says : " une ortie et un sedel de 

 corde." His word sedel came from the Spanish sedal. The 

 English " seton " comes from seta, a hair, because hair was 

 originally employed as the inserted material. 



^ Testicles. 



* The following words, which are in Shirley MS» and in G. 

 de F., are left out: "some tyme for they more foundeth as 

 an hors." 



