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other place of the body, 1 as the farcy, and this is 

 the worst to heal, and the best ointment that any 

 man can make for this manner of mange is this : 

 take quicksilver for as much as ye will make 

 ointment, as ye have need, and put it in a dish 

 with spittle of three or four fasting men, and stir 

 it altogether against the bottom of the dish with 

 a pot-stick, until the time that the quicksilver be 

 quenched with the water, and then take ye as much 

 verdigris as of the quicksilver and mingle it with 

 spittle, always stirring with a pot-stick, as I have 

 said before, until the time that they can be all 

 mingled together. And after take old swine's 

 grease without salt, a great piece, and take away 

 the skin above, and put it in the dish that I spake 

 of, with the things before said, and mingle and 

 stamp it altogether a long while, then keep it to 

 anoint the hound there where he hath the mange 

 and in no other place, and certainly he shall be 

 whole. This ointment is marvellous and good and 

 true not only for this thing, but also against the 

 canker and fistula and farcy and other quick evils, 

 the which have been hard to heal in other beasts. 

 That other is a common mange when the hounds 

 claw themselves with their feet and snap with 

 their teeth, and it is on all the body of the hound. 

 And all manners of mange come to hounds from 



1 G. de F. (p. 91) adds : "et est vermeille et saute d'un lieu 

 en autre." 



