BOOK VII. V. 11-15 



a tubercule from about the middle of which a hair 

 projects like that of a dog, which has a small worm 

 beneath it. Fouling and galling are removed by 12 

 being anointed with liquid pitch by itself or with 

 alum and sulphur and vinegar mixed together, or 

 young pomegranate, before it forms its seeds, 

 crushed up with alum and with vinegar poured over 

 it, or copper-rust sprinkled over it, or else burnt oak- 

 apples pulverized and mixed with rough wine and 

 smeared on the sore. A tubercule which has a worm 13 

 inside it should be cut round with a knife with the 

 greatest possible care, lest, in the course of cutting, 

 we should also wound the part of the animal which is 

 underneath it ; for, if this is damaged, it discharges 

 poisonous matter and, if this is sprinkled over the 

 wound, it makes it so difficult to heal that the whole 

 foot has to be amputated. But when you have carefully 

 cut round the tubercule, burning fat should be made 

 to drip over the wound by means of a lighted 

 torch. 



Any sheep which is suffering from a disease of the 14 

 lungs should be treated in the same way as a pig is 

 treated for the same disease, by the insertion through 

 the ear of what the veterinary surgeons call lungwort." 

 We have already spoken ^ of this plant when we dealt 

 with the treatment of the larger cattle. This disease 

 is usually contracted in the summer if the water has 

 been in short supply, and for this reason opportunity 

 must be given to all quadrupeds of drinking more 

 freely in hot weather. Celsus is of opinion that, if 15 

 there is trouble in the lungs, one should give the 

 sufferer as much sour vinegar as it can stand, or else 

 pour down the left nostril through a small horn about 

 three heminae of stale human urine which has been 



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