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this has been done, a sextarius of hot water is mixed 

 with the same quantity of lentils and poured down the 

 animal's throat ; the same treatment is continued 

 for three days and the sick animal is strengthened 

 by a diet of green grass and tree-tops. A cough of 

 long standing can be dispelled by pouring down the 

 throat on several days three cyathi of leek-juice in 

 a hemina of oil and providing the same diet as we 

 have prescribed above. 



Skin-eruptions and any form of scab are rubbed with 2 Remedy f 

 vinegar and alum. Sometimes, if these sores persist, eases. '^ 

 they are anointed with equal quantities of soda and 

 split alum mixed together in vinegar. Pustules are 

 scraped with a curry-comb in very hot sunlight until 

 blood is made to flow, then equal portions of the root 

 of wild ivy, sulphur and liquid pitch are mixed with 

 alum. The aforesaid ailments are treated with this 

 medicament. 



XXXII. Sores due to chafing are washed twice a Remedies 

 day with hot water, and then they are rubbed with and'^scabkl. 

 salt powdered and boiled with fat until the blood 

 flows. Scabies is fatal to this kind of quadruped, 

 unless help is speedily given. If the attack is only 

 slight, in the first stages the sores should be anointed 

 in burning sunlight with cedar-oil or mastic-gum or 

 nettle seed and oil crushed together or the fish-oil 

 which is deposited on dishes by salted tunnies. The 2 

 fat of the sea-calf is particularly efficacious against 

 this malady. If, however, the trouble is of long 

 standing, more violent remedies are needed ; and so 

 bitumen and sulphur and hellebore mixed with 

 liquid pitch and stale axle-grease in equal quantities 

 are boiled together, and the patients treated with 

 this preparation, the sores having been previously 



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