( 50 y, 
amongfl it. To ufe it, you muft dry it in an Oven, by 
the Fire, or in the Sun, then powder it, and pafs it 
through a Renge or fine Seive, the w hich mixed with 
the like Quantity of fine beaten and powdered Pepper, 
is the Compofirion. When given to a Dog, the Dog 
muft firft be blooded in the Ear, or otherwhere, if you 
know a more convenient Vein or Place, and then wafh- 
ed well all over, the Dog being kept fi^om Meat a con- 
venient while before, as a whole Night, or mod part of 
a Day before, then mix it well in a convenient Quanti- 
of Milk or Br oath warm : If itbefor anyCattel, it muft 
be alfo blooded and w^ell wafhed and given with a Dren- 
ching Horn, and the Dofe may be proportioned to the 
Bignefs or Strength of the Creature that is to take it : 
To a Man orWoman it muft be given after Blood-letting, 
and well walhing the Face and Hands, or Place that may 
be bitten, or all the Cloaths that the Perfon had on him 
or her, when bitten, to wafti away the Snivel or Drivel 
that comes from the Mouth of a Dog or other Creature 
when mad, for that is the only reafon for Walhing. A 
Man or Woman may take it in warm Milk, Beer, Ale, 
Broath, or how he beft likes it, fafting, Two or Three 
feveral Mornings to make fure the more Ceremony 
you make in giving it, the more it (eems to pleafe fome 
(brt of People. After a Dog hath bitten Man or Beaft, 
it will not appear or begin to grow Mad till after a Full 
and New Moon, or New or Full but when it begins to 
be Mad, 'tis very hardly cured yet our Uncle Dampier 
hath cured both Man and Beaft when Mad, but with 
much Care and Trouble, the manner w hich way, he 
hath alfo told me, and you may have the Receipt if it 
may pleafe you : Therefore when you know any thing 
to be bitten, or fufped it to be (b, ufe the Remedy as 
foon as may be after, and then, when given in time, it 
prevents 
