LIBER X · CAPUT 57
THE DISEASES OF FOWLS, AND THEIR REMEDIES
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Inimicissima autem omni generi pituita maximeque inter messis ac vindemiae tempus. medicina in fame et cubitusin fumo, utique si e lauru aut herba sabina fiat, pinna per traversas inserta nares et per omnes dies mota; cibus alium cum farre aut aqua perfusus, in qua maduerit noctua, aut cum semine vitis albae coctus ac quaedam alia.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
The most dangerous malady with every kind of fowl is that known as the “pituita;;” which is prevalent more particularly between the times of harvest and vintage. The mode of treatment is to put them on a spare diet, and to expose them, while asleep, to the action of smoke, and more especially that of bay leaves or of the herb called savin. A feather also is inserted, and passed across through the nostrils, care being taken to move it every day; while their food consists of leeks mixed with speltmeal, or else is first soaked in water in which an owlet has been dipped, or boiled together with the seeds of the white vine. There are also some other receipts besides.