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madness, he will have no desire to eat, fre- 

 quently fasting eight or nine days, and so 

 starve to death ; indeed if they are troubled 

 with any distemper, they will refuse their 

 meat, even the daintiest bit you can give 

 them, until they have eaten grass and cleared 

 their stomachs of what offended it, and they 

 then will eat. 



^4 remedy against the mange. 



This distemper befals a dog frequently for 

 want of fresh water to drink when he requires 

 it; and sometimes by foul kenneling; and 

 sometimes by foundering and melting his 

 grease. To cure it, take two handfuls of 

 wild cresses, the like of elecampane, and as 

 much of the roots and leaves of rheubarb 

 and sorrel, and two pounds of the roots of 

 frodels, make them all boil well in lie and 

 vinegar ; having strained the decoction, put 

 therein two pounds of grey soap, and when 

 it is melted therein, then rub your dogs with 

 it four or five days together, and it will cure 

 them. 



