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has been drawn off, the vein ought to be bound up 

 with bark of a willow or even of an elm-tree. After 3 

 this we shall keep the animals under cover for a day 

 or two and give them as much moderately warm 

 water as they shall desire and a sextarius each of 

 barley-flour. If pigs are scrofulous, they must be 

 bled under the tongue and, when the blood has 

 flowed, it will be well to rub the whole mouth with 

 powdered salt mixed with wheaten flour. Some 

 people think that a more efficacious remedy is to 

 make them swallow three cyathi each of fish-pickle 

 through a horn ; they then tie together split sticks of 

 fennel with a linen cord and hang them round their 

 necks in such a way that the scrofulous tumours are 

 in contact with the fennel-stalks. For pigs suffer- 4 

 ing from vomiting, ivory-dust is regarded as a good 

 remedy mixed with powdered salt and beans ground 

 very small and given to them on an empty stomach 

 before they go out to pasture. Sometimes also the 

 whole herd suffers at the same time, which causes 

 them to become thin and to refuse their food and to 

 lie down in the middle of the field when they are 

 driven out to pasture and to want to go to sleep in 

 the summer sunshine overcome by a kind of drowsi- 

 ness. When this happens, the whole herd is shut up 5 

 in a covered stable and deprived of drink and food 

 for one day ; then on the following day the root of the 

 snake-like cucumber, crushed and mixed with water, 

 is given to quench their thirst, and when the animals 

 have drunk it they are seized with nausea and vomit 

 and so are purged ; when all the bile has been dis- 

 charged, they are given chick-pea or beans sprinkled 

 with hard brine, after which they are allowed to drink 



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