DISEASES, ETC. J;>7* 



in the mouth of the stomach from corrupt 

 humours, the vapours and furnes thereof 

 ascending into the head, makes the dog sleep 

 continually, and frequently he dies sleeping. 

 For the cure you must take five ounces of 

 the juice of wormwood, with two ounces of 

 the powder of hartshorn burned, and two 

 drams of agarick, mingled together, and if 

 they be too thick, thin them with white wine, 

 and give it your dog to drink. 



Of rheumatic madness. 



This madness is so called, because when a 

 dog hath got it, his head swells, his eyes are 

 as yellow as saffron, and he commonly sla- 

 vereth at the mouth. For the cure, take six 

 ounces of the juice of fennel roots, and the 

 like quantity of the juice of ivy, four ounces 

 of the powder of the roots of polypody, boil 

 them in white wine and give it your dog to 

 drink, as hot as he can bear it. 



When a dog hath any of these kinds of 

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