The boke of husbandry·

¶ Dyuers sycnesses of cattell, and remedies therfore, and fyrst of murren.

ANd yf it fortune to fall murren a∣monge thy beastes, as god forbede, there be men ynough can helpe them. And it commeth of a ranknes of bloudde, and

appereth moste commonly fyrste in the heed: for his heed wyll swell, and his eyen waxe greate and ronne of water and frothe at the mouthe, and than he is paste remedy, and wyl dye shortely, and wyll neuer eate after he be sycke. Than flee hym, and make a depe pytte faste by, there as he dyeth, and caste hym in, and couer hym with erthe, that noo dogges maye come to the caryen. For as many bea∣stes as feleth the smelle of that caryen, are lykely to be enfecte, and take the skynne, and haue it to the tanners to sell, and bryng it not home, for peryll that may fal. And it is com∣monly vsed, and cometh of a greate charytie, to take the bare heed of the same beaste, and put it vpon a longe pole, and set it in a hedge, faste bounden to a stake, by the hyghe waye syde, that euerye man, that rydethe or goeth that waye, maye se and knowe by that signe, that there is sycknes of cattell in the towne∣shyp. And the husbandes holde an opynyon, that it shall the rather cease. And whanne the beaste is flaine, there as the murren dothe ap∣pere bytwene the flesshe and the skynne, it wyll ryse vppe lyke a ielly and frothe an inche depe or more. And this is the remedy for the murren. Take a smalle curteyne corde, and bynde it harde aboute the beastes necke, and

that wyll cause the bloudde to come in to the necke, and on eyther syde of the necke there is a vayne that a man may fele with his fynger: and than take a bloud yren, and set it streight vppon the vayne, and smyte hym bloudde on bothe sydes, and let hym blede the mounte∣naunce of a pynte or nyghe it, and than take a∣waye the corde, and it wyll staunche bleding. And thus serue all thy cattell, that be in that close or pasture, and there shall no mo be sicke by goddes loue.