BOOK VI. XXX. 4-7 



the orifice from which the urine flows, or a hve fly or 

 a grain of incense or a suppository of bitumen is in- 

 serted in the genital organs. The same remedies 

 will be applied, if the urine has scalded these organs. 

 Head-aches are indicated by tears which flow from 5 

 the eyes and the hanging down of the ears, and the 

 neck and head which are weighed down and droop 

 towards the ground. In these circumstances the vein 

 under the eyes is opened and the mouth fomented 

 with hot water and the animal is kept away from food 

 for the first day. Then on the next day, before it 

 has eaten anything, it is given a drink of tepid water 

 and some green grass ; then a litter of old hay or soft 

 straw is spread under it and, at dusk, water is again 

 given and a little barley with haulm of vetch, so that 

 by means of small doses the animal may be brought 

 back to regular forms of food. If a horse's jaws 

 give it pain, they should be fomented with hot 6 

 vinegar and rubbed with old axle-grease, and 

 the same remedy should be applied if the jaws are 

 swollen. If it has damaged its shoulders or has had an 

 extravasation of blood to these parts, the veins some- 

 where near the middle of each leg should be opened 

 and the shoulders should be anointed with a mixture 

 of incense-dust and the blood which flows from the 

 wound, and, that the animal may not be unduly 

 weakened, some of its own ordure should be applied 

 to the bleeding veins and bound with bandages. On 

 the following day blood should again be drawn from 

 the same places and the same treatment given, and 

 the animal should be kept away from barley and only 

 given a little hay. After three days and until the 7 

 sixth day the juice of a leek to the quantity of about 

 three cyathi mixed with a hemina of oil should be 



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