BOOK VI. IX. i-x. 2 



IX. When an ox suffers from fever, it is a good plan fever in 

 that it should go without food for a day, and that on 



the following day a little blood should be drawn off 

 under the tail before it eats anything, and that after 

 an interval of an hour it should be made to swallow 

 thirty cooked stalks of cabbage of moderate size 

 which have been dipped in oil and pickled fish in 

 the manner of drench. This food should be 

 given for five days on an empty stomach. Further- 

 more, tops of mastic or olive or any other very 

 tender foliage and vine-shoots should be placed before 

 it, also its lips should be wiped with a sponge and 

 cold water given it to drink three times a day. This 2 

 treatment should be carried out under cover and the 

 animal should not be allowed to go out until it is 

 cured. The symptoms of a state of fever are running 

 at the eyes, a heavy head, contracted eyes, a flow 

 of saliva from the mouth, an unusually slow and a 

 somehow obstructed respiration, accompanied also 

 at times by lowing. 



X. A cough, if treated early, is best dispelled by a Coughs of 

 medicine which causes salivation made of barley- °^^^' 

 flour. Sometimes grass cut up small and crushed 

 beans mixed with it are more beneficial; also two 

 sextarii of lentils removed from their pods and 

 ground up small are mixed with hot water and the 

 draught thus formed is poured down the throat 

 through a horn. A cough of long standing is cured 



with two pounds of hyssop infused in three sextarii 

 of water. Now this medicament is crushed up and 

 administered with four sextarii of lentils ground small, 

 in the manner I have described, and given to cause 

 salivation, and the hyssop-water is afterwards poured 

 in through a horn. The juice of a leek together with 2 



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