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Of diuers accidentes that happen to dogges, and first of that ill, which is called Formica.
EVery man dothe knowe, that there is a kinde of vyle dis∣ease that lyghtes vppon Spanels eares, whiche dothe greatly vexe them, in the Sommer tyme especially with the flyes, and the scratting and tearing themselues with theyr owne feete. We terme it in Englishe, a kinde of Mangie, but bothe the Latinist, and the Italian terme it Formica. The Frenche man hee calleth it, Fourmyer, whiche in trouthe is in Englishe nothing else but an Ante, or Pysmere, applyed heere in this place to a dogges disease, for some likelyhoode and propertie betwixte the Pysmere and the mischiefe, whiche is accustomed to creepe and go further and further, with his infection, to the greate anoyance of the poore Spanell, euen as the Pysmere is euer busie, trauayling too and fro, and ne∣uer vnoccupied.
The waye to rydde this vyle disease and mischiefe, is to bestowe vpon the infected place, a medicine made of Gumme Dragaganthe, foure ownces, infused in the strongest Vyneger that may bee gotten, by the space of eyght dayes: and after∣wardes broosed on a Marble stone, as Paynters do their co∣loures, adding vnto it, Roche Alome and Galles, beaten to powder, of eyther twoo ownces. Vsing these things as I haue shewed you, you maye make a powder of maruey∣lous force: for this purpose, laying it vppon the member where the Mangie lyes. This no question, wyll kyll the Formica.
Sometimes there befalles this mischiefe vpon poore Spa∣nels. There droppeth downe an humor from their braynes, by meane of whiche their throates and neckes do swell vnrea∣sonably. For remedie of this, I wyll aduise you to take no∣thing more, than to annoynte all the place withoute with Oyle of Camomil, then washing and embroching the dogges