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be swines fat or horse grease ;
tlien smear therewitli. Book l.
Against swelling, take the netherward part of waybroad,
pound with grease, lay and bind on the swelling.
xxxm.
1. Drinks and salves against pustule; springwort, red
hove, waybroad, feverfuge, abrotanon, maythe, pepper,
wine. If it, the inistule, be on an ear, beat waybroad
and feverfuge and pepper, wring tlie'm into the ear.
For a salve against a pustule, take pellitory, waybroad,
maythe, the netherward part of the broad colewort,
the netherward part of mallow, the netherward part of
dock, red hove, butter, and honey. A salve again,
meadow wort, tow,^ water agrimony, yarrow, butchers
broom, stichwort, agrimony.
2. For a dead pustule; boil in butter the herb wild
oat, teferth, and springwort. For a pustule, maythe,
wood marche, work thesa into a salve, let him drink
good worts. For a pustule, take lupin, pound in honey,
mingle together, lay on the swelling till it be hole.
For a jDustule, pound springwort, chervil, and honey
and goose grease, heat them together, lay tliis on the
pustule.
xxxiv.
1. If a nail be off the hand, and against a warty
eruption,''^ take wheat corn, mingle with honey, lay on pro^ablv""''
the finger. For an angnail,^^ brass filings and old soap, b xiapwvvxM,
and oil if thou have it, if thou have it not, add cream,
mingle together, lay on.
2. For warty eruption, heat in butter bunches of
maythe and salt,
smear therewith.
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Understand, in ashes. " Lin- I medicina; est ; et einis spodii (h-orj/
teorum lanugo e velis navium ma- \ Jiliiigs) vimhabet." Plinius, xix. 4.
ritimarum maxime, in magno usu I
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