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oil, or the fibre itself of the leeks crushed up with 

 barley-flour, is also used as a cure ; the roots too of 

 the same plant carefully washed and pounded up 

 with wheaten flour, given to the animal when it is 

 fasting, dispel the most inveterate cough. The 

 same effect is produced by bitter-vetch without 

 its husk pounded up with an equal portion of 

 toasted barley and poured down the throat in the 

 manner of a drench. 



XL It is better to get rid of suppuration by the Remedies 

 surgeon's knife than with medicine. Then, when the t?on!"^^"'^" 

 pus has been squeezed out, the sinus itself which 

 contained it is washed out with warm ox-urine and 

 then bound up with hnen bandages soaked in liquid 

 pitch and oil, or, if the part aifected cannot be bound 

 up, goat's or ox's tallow is dripped upon it by means 

 of a red hot plate of iron. Some people, when they 2 

 have cauterized the part affected, wash it with stale 

 human urine and then anoint it with raw liquid pitch 

 and stale axle-grease in equal quantities. 



XII. Down-flow of blood into the animal's feet Remedy for 

 gives rise to lameness. When this happens, the first in"olen? 

 thing that you should do is to inspect the hoof; 

 merely touching it proves the presence of inflamma- 

 tion, and the animal cannot bear any at all violent 

 pressure on the affected part. But if the blood is still 

 in the legs above the hoofs, it can be dissipated by 

 continual friction, or, if that has no effect, it can be 

 removed by scarification. Biit if it has already 

 reached the hoofs, you will make a slight incision 

 with a lancet between the two halves of the hoof; 

 then bandages dipped in salt and vinegar are 2 



' aperiet SAR. 



