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pearced, let the varlets of the kennell take the dogge quickly, and 

 put vp his guts foftly into his bellie with the ends of his fingers, 

 in fuch fort as a gelder doth when he fpayeth a bytch. Then let 

 him cut a flyce or thin piece of Lard, and put it within the belly, 

 right againft the hole that is made. And he muft haue a lyngell 

 in readinefle to fow vp the f kin, and at euery ftitch that he taketh, 

 let him knit his threed or lyngell. For elfe as fone as the threed 

 fhould rot or breake in one place, all the reft would flippe, and fo 

 the wounde would open againe, before it be throughly healed. 

 And in all places that a dog is hurt, if it be needful! to ftitch him 

 vp, put alwayes a piece of Larde in the wounde or againfte it, 

 and alwayes annoynt the wound with frefli butter, for that wil 

 make a dog be alwayes lycking of it. And his owne tong is a 

 good Chyrurgion where he may reach the wound. The needle 

 wherewith a dog fliould be fowed, fhoulde be fourfquare at the 

 poynt. And the varlet of the kennell fliould neuer go on field to 

 hunt eyther Bore, Beare, or Wolfe, without fuch a needle, lyn^ 

 gelles, and Lard, in a readinefle. 



A receipt to heale dogs which be brufed, or 

 haue any thing broken within them 



IT hapneth oftentimes, that a Bore brufeth a dogge with the 

 force of his heade, and yet draweth no bloude on him, eyther 

 vpon the fides of the dogges bulke, or vpon his thighes, or fuche 

 finewye places. Then if any thing be broken or put out of ioynt, 

 it muft firft be put vp again. But if it be no more but brufed, then 

 make a playfter of the roote of the herbe called Symphiton (with 

 vs in Engliflie Comfrey) the playfter of Mellylot, Pytche or 

 Tarre, and oyle of Rofes, as muche of the one as of the other. 

 The whiche you fhall mingle altogether, and make thereof a 

 great playfter vpon a cloth, and cut it as bygge as maye ferue to 

 couer the brufed place, and laye it therevnto as hote as the dogge 

 may fuffer it, and it will heale him. 



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