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pounded of equal weights of the crushed leaves of the 

 lupine and of the cypress, which is mixed with water 

 and left out of doors for a night. This should be 

 done four times a year — at the end of the spring, of 

 the summer, of the autumn and of the winter. 

 Lassitude and nausea also can often be dispelled if 

 you force a whole raw hen's egg down the animal's 

 throat when it has eaten nothing ; then on the 

 following day you should crush together spikes of 

 leek or garlic in wine and pour it into its nostrils. 

 Nor are these the only remedies which make for 

 health. Many people mix also a generous quantity 

 of salt with the fodder ; some grate white hore- 

 hound in oil and wine ; some infuse fibres of leek, 

 others grains of frankincense, others savin <* and 

 crushed rue in unmixed wine and give them these 

 medicaments to drink. Many people use the stalks 

 of white-vine (bryony) and the shells of bitter-vetch 

 as a medicine for oxen ; some crush a snake's skin 

 and mix it with wine. Thyme crushed in sweet 

 wine and squill cut up and soaked in water are also 

 used as remedies. All the above-mentioned potions 

 in doses of three heminae given daily for three days 

 purge the bowel and renew the animal's strength 

 by driving away its maladies. But lees of olive-oil 

 are regarded as particularly salutary if you mix 

 them with an equal portion of water and accustom 

 the cattle to them ; this remedy cannot be ad- 

 ministered all at once, but at first is sprinkled on 

 the food, next a small portion is infused in the 

 water, and then the animal is given as much as 

 it can take mixed in equal portions of both 

 ingredients. 



" A kind of juniper which yields a volatile oil. 



