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Canine madness is fatal to man during the heat of Sirius, [Note] and, as we have already said, it proves so in consequence of those who are bitten having a deadly horror of water. [Note] For this reason, during the thirty days [Note] that this star exerts its influence, we try to prevent the disease by mixing dung from
the poultry-yard with the dog's food; or else, if they are already attacked by the disease, by giving them hellebore.
(41.) We have a single remedy against the bite, which has been but lately discovered, by a kind of oracle, as it were—the root of the wild rose, which is called cynorrhodos, [Note] or dogrose. Columella informs us, that if, on the fortieth day after the birth of the pup, the last bone of the tail is bitten off, the sinew will follow with it; after which, the tail will not grow, and the dog will never become rabid. [Note] It is mentioned, among the other prodigies, and this I take to be one indeed, that a dog once spoke; [Note] and that when Tarquin was expelled from the kingdom, a serpent barked.
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