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The second consists of rue, garlic, tin-filings, Venice treacle, 
digested in good sound ale or white wine. The dose from two 
to three ounces, to be taken every morning for nine days, after 
which the patient must fast for three days. The dregs that re¬ 
main after expression must be applied to the wound, and re¬ 
newed every twenty-four hours. This medicine must be t^en 
before the ninth day after the bite, and was never known to 
fail. 
We will give the third at length. Pluck the feathers from 
the breech of an old cock, and then apply it (the breech of the 
cock) bare to the wound. If the dog was mad, the cock will 
swell and die, and the patient will do well; but if the cock dies 
not, the dog was not mad. If the wounds be very small, 
it is ])roper to open them with a lancet. 
Fourth. Let the patient be nine times plunged into the sea 
fasting, as soon as possible after the bite. Wash the bitten part 
with a ley composed of the ashes of oak wood and urine, and 
apply a cataplasm of London treacle, hedge garlic, rue, and salt. 
Two other recipes are given, but they are composed of mul¬ 
titudinous ingredients, and must be taken on three successive 
mornings before new and full moons. 
The Universal Magazine, 1747. 
Strange Recipe to cure the Yellows in Cows. 
Take one ounce of wood soot powdered fine, plantain and rue 
a handful of each, eight large cloves and stamp them ; to which 
add one ounce of hempseed or a handful of the tops of hemp ; 
and after they have been boiled in three parts of fresh human 
urine, or as much stale beer, and passed through a sieve, give a 
pint of the liquor to a cow, rub her tongue and the roof of her 
mouth with salt, and chafe her back with human urine. 
The Universal Magazine, 1747. 
The old Reputation of Salt for the Cure of the 
Rot. 
If your sheep be suspected to incline to rot, house them as fast 
as you can in a large barn or sheep-cote, set round with wooden 
troughs, in which feed them a day or twm with oats mixed with 
Bay salt bruised or beaten, increasing the quantity of salt till 
they refuse it ; then feed them with clean oats for a couple of 
days. After that they must be served with salt as before, until 
their eyes come to their native colour. This, if any thing will 
do it, will recover your sheep. 
The Universal Magazi?ie, 1748. 
