Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
[Sidenote: ‘Risen upon.’]
An other dysease is called rysen vppon, and no man
can tell howe, nor wherof it cometh: but ye shall perceyue
that by swellynge in the heed, and specyallye by
[Sidenote: The beast’s eyes run.]
the eyen, for they wyll ronne on water, and close his 4
syght; and wyll dye shortly within an houre or two, if
he be not holpen. This is the cause of his dysease.
There is a blyster rysen vnder the tounge, the whiche
blyster must be slytte with a knyfe a-crosse. Whan ye 8
[Sidenote: Find the blister under the tongue, and cut it.]
haue pulled out the tongue, rubbe the blyster well with
salte, and take an hennes egge, and breake it in the
beastes mouthe shell and all, and cast salte to it, and
holde vp the bestes heed, that all maye be swalowed 12
downe into the body. But the breakynge of the blyster
is the greate helpe, and dryue the beaste a lyttell aboute,
and this shall saue hym, by the helpe of Jesu.
62. ==> The turne, and remedy therfor.
[Sidenote: [Fol. 37_b_.]]
[Sidenote: ‘The turn.’]
There be beastes that wyll turne about, whan they
eate theyr meate, and wyll not fede, and is great
ieoperdy for fallynge in pyttes, dyches, or waters: and
[Sidenote: There is a bladder between the brain and
brain-pan.]
it is bycause that there is a bladder in the foreheed 4
bytwene the brayne-panne and the braynes, the whiche
must be taken out, or els he shal neuer mende, but dye
at lengthe, and this is the remedy and the greatest cure
that can be on a beaste. Take that beast, and cast him 8
downe, and bynde his foure fete together, and with thy
thombe, thrust the beast in the foreheed, and where
thou fyndest the softest place, there take a knyfe, and
cut the skyn, three or foure inches on bothe sides 12
bytwene the hornes, and as moche benethe towarde
the nose, and fley it, and turne it vp, and pyn it faste
with a pyn, and with a knyfe cut the brayne-pan .ii.
[Sidenote: Cut the bone, but not the brain, and take out
the bladder.]
inches brode, and thre inches longe, but se the knyfe 16
go no deper than the thycknes of the bone for perysshynge
of the brayne, and take away the bone, and than
shalt thou se a bladder full of water two inches longe
and more, take that out, and hurte not the brayne, and 20
thanne let downe the skynne, and sowe it faste there
as it was before, and bynde a clothe two or thre folde
vpon his foreheed, to kepe it from colde and wete .x. or
[Sidenote: [Fol. 38.]]
.xii. dayes. And thus haue I seen many mended. But 24
if the beaste be fatte, and any reasonable meate vpon
hym, it is best to kyll hym, for than there is but lyttell
losse. And if the bladder be vnder the horne, it is
past cure. A shepe wyll haue the turne as well as a 28
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