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Of divers accidents that happen to dogges, and first of that ill which is called For••ica.
EVery man doth know that there is a kinde of vile disease that lights vpon Spaniels eares, which doth greatlie vexe them in the Summer time especially with the flies, and the scratting and tearing themselues with their owne féet. We tearme it in English, a kinde of Mangie, but but both the Latimst and the Italian tearme it Formica. The French man hee calleth it Fourmye••, which in troth is in English nothing else but an Ante or Pismire, applyed héere in this place to a dogges disease for some likelyhood and pro∣perty betwixt the Pismire and the mischiefe, which is accu∣stomed to exéepe and goe further and further with his infecti∣on, to the great annoyance of the poore Spaniell, euen as the Pismire is euer busie trauayling to and fro, and neuer vn∣occupied.
* 1.1The way to ridde this vile disease and mischiefe, is to be∣stow vppon the infected place a medicine made of Gumme Drag aganthe foure ounces infused in the strongest Vineger that may bée gotten by the space of eight dayes: and after∣wardes bruised on a Marble stone, as Painters do their co∣lours, adding vnto it Roch Allom and Galles beaten to powder, of eyther two ounces. Vsing these thinges as I haue shewed you, you may make a powder of maruaylous force: for this purpose, laying it vppon the Member where the Mangie lies. This no question will kill the Formica.
* 1.2Sometimes there befals this mischiefe vpon poore Spa∣niels. There droppeth downe an humor from their braines, by meane of which their throates and neckes do swell vnrea∣sonably. For remedy of this, I will aduise you to take no∣thing more than to annoint all the place without with Oyle of Camomill, then washing and embroching the Dogges