Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a ...

LEECH BOOK. I. 57
into use, and boil cockle in milk, them sup some and
bathe with it. For swelling of gullet, boil in ale
bishopwort, the netherward part of attoiiothe, and
burdock.
Book I.
Ch. xii.
Xlll.
For hair Hp, pound mastic very small, add the white
of an egg, and mingle as thou dost vermillion, cut
with a knife the false edges of the lip, sew fast with
silk, then smear without and within with the salve,
ere the silk rot. If it draw together, arrange it with
the hand ; anoint again soon.
xiv.
For watery congestions^ called KXvlmsc, a little
incense, some sulfur, beetle nut, wax, ginger ; let the
ixitient drink through a horn horehowa.^ and hawkwort ^
in clear ale.
XV.
For host or cough, how variously it comes ujoon a
man, and how a man should treat it. The host hath
a manifold access, as the spittles are various. Whilom
it cometli of immoderate heat, whilom of immoderate
cold, whilom of immoderate dryness.
2. Work thus a drink against cough. Take mugwort,''
seethe it in a cojDper kettle, and boil till it* be very
thick, and let it* be wrought of wheaten malt ; then
take of everfern most, bishopwort, water agrimony,^
pennyroyal,'' singreen,^ set all in a vat, give to drink
at the middays, and forego what is sour and every-
'
Bpo7xoKTiA77, perhaps.
- Hicracium.
^
Artemisia vulgaris.
'
The gender of the pronoun
makes it refer to the wort, whereas
the process seems to require a masculine,
referring to the potion.
^
Eupatorium cannabinum.
**
3Ientha pulegium.
^
Sempervivuvi tectorum.