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that he be whole. Also hounds have another 

 sickness that cometh to them of the rewme, that 

 is to say, they have the malemort (glanders) in their 

 nostrils as horses have, wherefore they can smell 

 nothing nor wind, and at the last some die thereof, 

 and they take it most when they hunt in snow. For 

 this sickness boil mastic and incense in small powder 

 in fair water, and of a thing that men call Ostoraces 

 calamynt, 1 brygella 2 of rue 3 and mint and of sage, 

 and hold the hound's nose upon the pot's mouth 

 wherein these things should boil so that he may 

 retain within his nostrils the smoke that cometh 

 thereof out of the pot. And in this wise serve 

 him a long while, three or four times every day, 

 until the time that he be whole, and this is good 

 also for a horse when he hath the glanders strongly 



1 Estoracis calamita, G. de F., p. 93. Lavallée appends the 

 note : " Storax et Styrax calamita? Storax, a resin resembling 

 benzoin, was in high esteem from the time of Pliny to the 

 eighteenth century. It was obtained from the stem of Styrax 

 officinalis, a native of Greece and the Levant. In our MS. four 

 other ingredients mentioned by G. de F. have been left out, 

 but the Shirley MS. gives them : "and oyle of Kamamyle and 

 of Mallyor of aushes and of calamynt," i.e. oil of camomile, 

 melilot (Meliters), rosemary, thymus calamita, a species of 

 balm. Possibly this is a mint called Calaminta nepeta, a plant 

 formerly much used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic. 

 Melilot, a genus of clover-like plants of the natural order of 

 Leguminose. 



2 Mildew. G. de F. (p. 93), Nigella, Nielle. 



3 Reive, Mod. Eng. rue, Lat. ruta. This herb was in great 

 repute among the ancients, and is still employed in medicine 

 as a powerful stimulant. 



