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

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LEECH BOOK. I. 59
thing salt. Again for host, take horehound, seethe in ^^^^^ I-
water, administer it so warm to drink.
3. Again, take clifFwort,' some men call it foxes cliff",
some riverwort, and let it be wrought past midsummer,
seethe it in water till the third part of the wash be
off", give it thrice a day to be drunk.
4. For host again, take sea mint, boil it in ale,
give to drink. Again, take black alder rendered and
purified, boil it in ale, give it to be drunk.
5. Again, take hove," yarrow, red nettle,"^ boil them
in milk. Again, take against host and against breast
anguish,* a good portion of slary,^ add a bowl full of
wine, boil away a third part on the wort ; let the
patient sup it at night fasting.
6. Again, take marrubium, boil it in ale, add pepper.
Again, for breast anguish, if a man have a dry host,
take a thin slice of lard, lay it on a hot stone, shed
cummin on it, set it on a horn,*^ let the p)('dient drink
in
the smoke.
7. For a dry cough again, take elecampane and
comfi'ey ; let the 'patient eat them in virgin honey.
XVI.
1. For acute pain in the breast, take the little
centaury and cummin, boil in clear ale, let the patient
sip and drink. Again, take pennyroyal and cockle,
artichoke, let him boil in clear ale, let him drink a
cup fall at night fasting.
2. Boil in ale for the same, fennel, marrubium,
betony, and let the patient drink. For pain in the
breast, take rue, /lorehound and abrotanon,'^ rub to-
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Arctium lappa.
Glechoma hederacea.
Lamium purpureum.
^ Angina pectoris seems too
limited.
^ Salvia sclarea.
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Lye understands cj'meb as
Xa^aibpis, germander, going by the
syllables.
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Artemisia abrotanon.