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scraped with a knife and thoroughly washed with 

 urine. Often, too, it has been found beneficial to 3 

 cut the scab to the quick with a lancet and remove 

 it and to treat the resulting sores with liquid pitch 

 and oil, which both cleanse the wounds and cause 

 them to fill up ; when they have filled, soot from a 

 brazen vessel rubbed into the sore will be found 

 most beneficial in causing the wounds to scar over 

 and grow hair. 



XXXIII. We shall get rid of the flies which infest Remedies 

 wounds by pouring on them pitch and oil or fat. The andXr paia 

 other kinds of sores are correctly treated with the '" t'le eyes. 

 flour of bitter-vetch. Scars on the eyes are reduced 



by rubbing with fasting spittle and salt or with the 

 shell of a cuttle-fish pounded up with mineral salt or 

 with the seed of the wild parsnip crushed and 

 squeezed through linen over the eyes. Any kind of 2 

 pain in the eyes is quickly alleviated by anointing 

 them with the juice of the plantain mixed with honey 

 obtained without smoking out the bees, or, if this 

 is not available, at any rate with thyme-honey. 

 Sometimes bleeding at the nose has proved dangerous 

 and has been stopped by pouring the juice of green 

 coriander into the nostrils. 



XXXIV. A horse sometimes languishes through Remedies 

 distaste for food. The remedy for this is a kind of In^Tm?-* 

 seed called git,°' two cyathi of which are crushed and elation. 

 dissolved in three cyathi of oil and one sextarius of 



wine and poured down the throat. Nausea can also 

 be stopped by frequently giving the animal a bruised 

 head of garlic in a hemina of wine to drink. It is 

 better to open up an abscess with a red-hot metal 

 plate than with a cold iron instrument, and when the 

 pus has been squeezed out, it is dressed with lint. 



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