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Rh shalt be [thou shalt be] victorious, and thou shalt do well in it if thou hast the foot with thee. With its suet smear the horses which are in a fever or in any ailment; it shall retire from [them] and the hour of life shall be prolonged to them, and though it be a great ailment, it shall quickly depart away. Mingle its blood with a little salt for horses and mules and any foorfour [sic]-footed beast which are struggling with pestilence, or with any evil; put [it] by means of a horn on the beasts mouth after its strength, and so for about three nights; they will be whole. Boil its brain in three sextarii of oil in a new pot, till the third part be boiled away; bottle off, and preserve it. If any one be [troubled] with head-racking pain after the bath, smear [him] therewith for three nights, he will be healed,–and also the feet, and though a man be in any chronic and incurable disease, this manner will heal and cure him. Take its liver, divide it, and bury it at the turnings round of thy land boundaries, at thy borough wall-foundations, and hide the heart at thy borough gates: then thou and thine shall be released [so as] to go about in health and return home; all pestilence shall be driven away, and what was done before shall cause no injury, and there shall be little danger from fire. [It is] also kownknown [sic] that its hide is useful to hounds, and to all four-footed beasts, to put upon [them as a preservative] against the peril of pestilence. Have fell pieces of the hide on thy shoes; thou shalt never feel distress in thy feet. Thou holiest Cæsar, I will have thee believe that this wild beast benefits well if [thou] on thy cleansing days, when thou travellest through earth’s circumference, eatest and takest its flesh boiled: it shall be good to thee and wholesome to thy hosts. If anything of evil has been done to any one