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poured down its throat through a horn. After the 

 sixth day it should be made to walk slowly and, after it 

 has taken this exercise, it will be a good plan to drive 

 it into a pond so that it may swim ; then, by the 

 administration by degrees of a more solid diet, it will 

 be brought back to normal conditions. If a horse is 8 

 troubled by bile and its belly swells and it cannot get 

 rid of wind, the hand is greased and inserted into its 

 bowel and the natural exits which have been 

 blocked are opened up ; afterwards, when the ordure 

 has been removed, ox-marjoram and lousewort 

 crushed up with salt are mixed with boiled-down 

 honey, so as to form a suppository, and inserted from 

 below ; these move the belly and bring away all 

 the bile. Some people pour down the throat a 9 

 quadrans of ground myrrh in a hemina of wine and 

 anoint the anus with liquid pitch ; others wash out the 

 bowel with sea-water, still others with fresh brine. 



Tape-worms and maw-worms, too, often do harm 

 to the intestines. It is a sign of their presence when 

 horses roll about on the ground in internal pain or 

 bring heads near their bellies or frequently flick their 

 tails. An efiicacious remedy is that described above, 

 namely, the insertion of the hand and the removal 

 of ordure followed by the washing out of the bowel 

 with salt water or hard brine, and afterwards the 

 pouring down the throat of the root of the caper- 

 tree ground up with a sextarius of vinegar ; for by 

 this ntiethod the animals mentioned above are killed. 



XXXI. When any animal is sick, deep litter must Kemedies 

 be provided, so that it may have a softer resting- *"'' ^ ''°'^g^ 

 place. A cough which has only just begun is 

 quickly cured with crushed lentils separated from 

 the pods and pounded into minute fragments. When 



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