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this is wonderfully evil to heal, for though the 

 hounds may be whole it cometh to them again. 

 Commonly to this mange, this is the best ointment 

 that men may make thereto. Nevertheless many 

 men would put many others thereto, first take ye 

 six pounds of honey and a quart of verdigris, and 

 that the honey be first melted and stirred in the 

 bottom with a ladle, and then let it cool, and let 

 it boil often with as much of oil of nuts as of the 

 honey and of water, wherein an herb has been 

 boiled that men call in Latin Cleoborum, and in 

 other language Valerian, the which make men 

 sneeze, and put all these things together and 

 mingle them upon the fire, stir them well and let 

 it be cold, and anoint the hound by the fire or in 

 the sun. And look that he lick not himself, for 

 it should do him harm. And unless he be whole 

 at the first time anoint him from eight days (to 

 eight days) x until the time that he be whole, for 

 certainly he shall be whole. And if he will make 

 any more of that ointment, take of the things 

 aforesaid in the same wise or more or less as 

 seemëth to you that need is. That other manner 

 (of) mange is called flying mange, 2 for it is not in 

 all the body but it cometh more commonly about 

 the hounds' ears, and in their legs than in any 



1 "To viii. days" has been omitted. 



2 Some confusion, which is still common, between eczema 

 from various causes, and true parasitic mange or scabies. 



