and then a man may take away the canker with his fingers, for if it were taken away with a knife men might cut him. And then men should wash it with wine, milk warm, and then put therein honey and salt, so that the sickness shall not come again, and then put again the yerde within the skin as it was before, and look every week that the sickness come not again, and take it always out if aught come thereto until the time that it be whole. And in the same wise a man should do to a bitch, if such a sickness were taken in her nature. In this sickness many hounds and bitches die for default of these cures, whereof all hunters have not full knowledge. Sometimes the hounds have a great sickness that they may not piss, and be lost thereby and also when they may not scombre (dung). Then take ye the root of a cabbage and put it in olive oil, and put it in his fundament so that ye leave some of the end without, so much that it may be drawn out when it is needful. And if he may not be whole thereby make him a clyster as men do to a man, of mallows, of beets, and of mercury, a handful of each, and of rue and of incense, and that all these things be boiled in water and put bran within, and let pass all that water through a strainer, and thereto put two drachms of agarite[131] and of honey and of olive oil, and all this together put into his anus and he shall scombre. [108] Cherish, "wagging their tayles and seeming to cherish them," Turbervile, p. 223. See Appendix: Madness. [109] It should read "smelleth," as it is in Shirley MS. and in G. de F., p. 87. [110] The friendly licking of other dogs has often been noticed as an early symptom of rabies in a pack of hounds. [111] Du Fouilloux in his _La Venerie_ (published 1561) copied much from Gaston de Foix's book, but either he or his editors made the ridiculous mistake of saying nine _months_ instead of _days_. Turbervile, who translated, or rather cribbed, Du Fouilloux's book, has copied this absurd mistake, and says a hound may continue thus nine months, but not past (p. 222). [112] Means "a bone in their throat." G. de F. (p. 88): "comme si ils avoient un os en la gueule." In the Shirley MS. "enosed," _i.e._ "_un os._" See Appendix: Madness. [113] See Appendix: Worming. [114] "Lank madness" in Turbervile, p. 223. Tucked up. G. de F. (p. 88): "cousus parmi les flans" ("the flanks drawn in"). [115] In Shirley MS. "ventoused upon or gersed." G. de F.: "ventouses, que on appelle coupes," hence "cupped and lanced" would be the proper meaning. [116] Makes them lose their hair. G. de F. (p. 90), "et si _poile_ le chien." [117] "To viii. days" has been omitted. [118] Some confusion, which is still common, between eczema from various causes, and true parasitic mange or scabies. [119] G. de F. (p. 91) adds: "et est vermeille et saute d'un lieu en autre." [120] In the Shirley MS. the words are added: "to(o) hye plyte," _i.e._ too high condition. G. de F. (p. 91) adds "gresse."