[ 10] Of the kernels.
THese are little bunches rising in the throate, which are to bee cured by letting bloud in the shoulder, and vnto this disease belongeth that which the Germans cal Rangen, and the Italians Sidor, which is not contagious, but very dangerous, for within two daies the beast doth dye thereof, if it bee not preuented: this euill groweth in the lower part or chap of the swines mouth, where it doth not swel, but waxing white, hardeneth like a peece of horne, through paine whereof the beast cannot eate, for it is in the space betwixt the sore and hinder teeth, the remedy is to open the Swines mouth as wide as one can, by thrusting into it a round bat, then thrust a sharp needle through the same sore, and lifting it vp from the gum, they cut it off with a sharp knife, and this remedy helpeth many if it be [ 20] taken in time, some giue vnto them the roots of a kind of Gention to drinke, as a speciall medicine, which the Germans for that cause cal Rangen crute, but the most sure way is the cutting it off, and like vnto this there is such another growing in the vpper chappe of the mouth, and to be cured by the same remedy; the cause of both doth arise from eating of their meate ouer hot, and therefore the good Swineheard must labour to auoid that mis∣chiefe, the mischiefe of this is described by Virgill:
Hinc canibus blandis rabies venit, & quatit aegros, Tussis anhela sues, as faucibus angit abesis.