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

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LEECH BOOK. I. 8i)
next make a brewit of tliein in the butter, and shake Book i.
it well up without fire, and add pepper, then let the
patient eat first the brewit at night fasting. Further
after that let him drink the draught and none other
liquid for ten nights, for thirty if he can endure it
then take mistletoe
of the oak, beat it small and dry it,
and rub down to meal, then weigh it against one
penny, put that into the best wine ; let the sufferer
drink this accordingly for nine days, and let him eat
neither new cheese, nor fresh goose, nor fresh eel, nor
fresh pig, nor augbt of that which cometh of a decoction,
nor fishes without shells, nor web footed fowls ; if he
eat any of these, let it be salted, and by no means
let him drink beer, and wine and ale moderately. If
this leechdom be followed then shall the man be hole.
Against circle addle or shingles, take dock that will
swim, beat it very small, boil in old inspissated wine a
good handful, then remove the worts, afterwards add
another handful of the same wort, boil again thoroughly,
then remove the worts ; then take brimstone, beat
it very small, then apply the salve, so that it may
be as thick as brewit, then smear the specks with
the salve till it be well with him, the patient.
xxxvii.
In case that a man may not retain his urine and have
not control over it, burn to ashes claws of a boar or
of another swine, then shed the ashes on the sick mans
drink. Again, burn to ashes the bladder of an unprolific,
that is a gelt, swine, put it into wine, administer
it to drink. For the same, fry a goats bladder, give
it to the man to eat ; some, when so fried, reduce it
to dust, and %vhen shed into wine, give it to the men
to drink, if they be without fever. Again, if a man
take of cummin as much as thou
may not pass water,
mayst lift with three fingers, triturate it, and add