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the other following, if he will eat flesh or any other 

 thing. And if he will not eat within three days 

 slay him as a mad hound. The remedies for men 

 or for beasts that be bitten by mad hounds must 

 need be done a short time after the biting, for if 

 it were past a whole day it were hard to undertake 

 to heal him of the two first madnesses whereof 

 I spake at the beginning, for all the others can 

 do no harm, and the remedy may be of divers 

 manners. Some goeth to the sea, and that is but 

 a little help, and maketh nine waves of the sea 

 pass over him that is so bitten. Some take an old 

 cock and pull all the feathers from above his vent 

 and hangeth him by the legs and by the wings, and 

 setteth the cock's vent upon the hole of the biting, 

 and stroketh along the cock by the neck and by 

 the shoulders because that the cock's vent should 

 suck all the venom of the biting. And so men do 

 long upon each of the wounds, and if the wounds 

 be too little theymust be made wider with a barber's 

 lancet. And many men say, but thereof I make 

 no affirmation, that if the hound were mad, that 

 the cock shall swell and die, and he that was bitten 

 by the hound shall be healed. If the cock does 

 not die it is a token that the hound is not mad. 

 There is another help, for men may make sauce 

 of salt, vinegar and strong garlic pulled and 

 stamped, and nettles together and as hot as it may 

 be suffered to lay upon the bite. And this is 



