The husbandman, farmer and grasier's compleat instructor. Containing choice and approved rules, and directions for breeding, feeding, chusing, buying, selling, well ordering and fatning bulls, cows, calves, rams, ews, lambs, swine, goats, asses, mules, &c. : How to know the several diseases incident to them, by their signs and symptoms, with proper remedies to cure them; : as likewise all griefs, and sorrances what-ever. : Also, a treatise of dogs, and conies, in their breeding, ordering, and curing the distempers they are subject to. : To which is added, The experienced vermine-killer, in particular directions, for taking and destroying all sorts of vermine in houses, out-houses, fields, garden, graneries, and other places. / By A.S. Gent.

Of Madness in Dogs, and the Remedy.

There are accounted to be in Dogs, several sorts of ••duess; as the Dumb, the Sleepy, the Falling, thee ••umatick, and the Lank-Madness; and when any of ••se af••lict him, keep him up close from other Dogs, and ••e hi•• Grass, with long Chieves, to cleanse his Blood; ••d hi•• only with thin Broths, and a little Manch••t, for ••o or three days, giving him Salt and Oatmeal in the ••tle water you give him.

At the end of those days, when he is a little prepared; ••e half an Onnce of the Juice of Harts-ho••n, or Dogs∣••ngue, a Herb so called, an Ounce, of the strongest ••nega•••• a quarter of an Ounce of Methridate; mix ••se together, and give it with the addition of a Spoon∣•• or two of Salled Oyl.