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grape-skins and crush them in two sextarii of rough 

 wine and then give them to be drunk as a medicine, 

 keeping any other hquid away from them, but 

 nevertheless putting before them the tops of the 

 trees mentioned above. But if neither the violent 

 flux from the belly nor the pain in the intestine 

 and stomach has ceased and the animal refuses his 

 food, and its head is very heavy and it frequently 

 blinks and tears flow from its eyes and slime from its 

 nostrils, the middle of its forehead should be burnt 

 down to the bone and its ears cleft with a knife. It 

 is in fact a good plan to rub with ox-urine the wounds 

 caused by the fire while they are healing ; but those 

 which are due to cuts with the knife are better treated 

 with pitch and oil. 



VIII. Aversion to food is often caused by morbid Treatment 

 swellings of the tongue which veterinary surgeons (on^eln" 

 call " frogs." They are cut back with a knife and the o^en. 

 wounds rubbed with salt and garlic crushed together 

 in equal quantities, until a viscous discharge thus 

 provoked flows forth. The mouth is then washed 

 out with wine and after the interval of one hour a 

 diet of green herbs or leaves is administered until 

 the sores which had formed are scarred over. If no 2 

 " frogs " have formed and the bowel is not dis- 

 turbed but nevertheless the animal has no appetite 

 for its food, it will be beneficial to pour a mixture of 

 pounded garlic and oil through its nostrils or to rub 

 the throat with salt and marjoram, or to smear the 

 same part with crushed garlic and fish-sauce. But 

 this remedy should be used if aversion to food is the 

 only symptom. 



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