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18 drink morning and evening, rubbing the mouth very well with salt, is a certain and approve cure.

Hogs—For the murrain or garren. Take gun-powder, bay salt, armoniack and garlick, beat them together, and with a knife make a hole between their claws, put in the quantity of a hazlenut, and let them blood under the tongue, or in the  vein.

For scurf and manginess, let them blood in the tail, then take black soap brimstone, vinegar swine's-grease, and honey mixed together, of each a like quantity, and anoint the same all over with it, having first rubbed off all the scurf and filth with a wool-card.

For a sow that eateth her pigs, watch the piging, and take the least or worse pig, and annoint it all over with the juice of the herb called stone crop, and give to her eat, and she will never do the like again.

For the measles or pox, let them blood under the ears, or in the tail then bind the sore with the bark of green ossiers, then take an ounce of treacle, the juice of wormwood, liver wort, and gail-wort, half a pint; of red-oaker and hen's dung, of each a handful, and of barley-meal three handfuls, mixed with a bottle of urine and honey altogether, put it into two gallons of sweet warm wash, and give it the swine to drink, and annoint all the sore places with a boar's grease and brimstone mixed together.