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LEECH BOOK. I. 91
thereto two bowls full of wine and two others of water, Book i.
Ch.xxxvn.
give it to the sick to drink after his nights fasting.
Again, if a man cannot mie, let him drink githrife,
rubbed fine in water. Again, take also yarrow and
waybroad, boil them in wine, give them to be drunk.
Again, let him eat a rams bladder sodden. Again, take
roots of fennel and the wort itself, beat it and rub it
fine into wine, moisten well and strain it, and administer
it to drink. Again, let him roast ^ and partake
of the tongues of geese. Again, if thou find a fish
within another fish, take and roast it thoroughly, and
break it to bits into a draught, and give it to the sick
man to drink in such a manner that he know it not.
So shalt thou give the other meats and drinks. If
a man may not pass water, let him drink a root of
a lily boiled in wine or in ale. If he then mie too
strongly, let him di-ink githrife in water, rubbed to
(lust.
If a man mie blood, take dog roses, seethe thera
in water or in ale, administer them to drink.
If a woman may not pass water, take seed of garden
cress, seethe it in water and give it her to drink. If
one may not pass water, pound lovage and elder rind
and oleaster, that is wild olive tree, mix this with
sour clear ale, and give to drink.
xxxviii.
1. Here are wound salves for all wounds and drinks
and cleansings of every sort, whether without or in
the inwards. Waybroad beaten, mixed with old lard
the fresh is not of use.
2. Again, a wound salve ; take seed of waybroad,
bray it small, shed it on the wound, soon it will be
better.
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Our Saxon has not been careful I is set down in Marcellus as restrainin
the selection of his recipes ; this |
ing " profluvium urinse."