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

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LEECH BOOK. I. 103
take horchound, and everlasting, and alexanders, and
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betony, and celandine, and charlock seed, drink them
in wine. A salve : take blooms of elder, and the croi>,
or bunch or umbel, boil them in butter, and smear
therewith ;
if it will, that is, if it shew a tendency to
form ratten or 2mrident matter, smear with yolk of
egg ; smear over with that, and dry it by gledes, or hot
coals, till that it be hard, then wash away and smear
again with the salve. For hot erysipelatous eruptions,
take dregs of wine, mingle with raw eggs, and with a
feather smudge it on, and wash not till the place he
hole.
For oozing erysipelatous blains, take knee holly,
that is, butchers broom, much ere other meat, daily
for the wound, and put together bullocks gall, honey,
soot; cure therewith. For the same, that is, for the
disease called fig, take for a bath that sort of "lustmock
" which bearetli crops or flower bunches, and
for a salve, burn a wolfs jaw, the left one, and the
teeth apart, mingle with honey and smear therewith,
and lay on fresh cheese, mingle the other ingredient^
with milk, sup for three mornings nine sips. For leg
disease, that is hot red blains, take nineteen snips of
helenium, and nine of " ontre," and eleven of red sedge,
put them in ale and drink much ere than thou eat; and
seethe the helenium alone till that it be tender, pound
together, smear therewith where the disease may bo
striking out. A drink for fellons ; cummin, pepper,
costmary, seed of marche, seed of black hellebore, pound
well, put into ale. A drink or potion for fellons
pound in ale or seethe celandine, and elecampane,
bishop wort, githrife. A drink for fellons ; sigsonte,
onion, leek, the netherward part of waybroad, boil all
in water and sweeten with honey. A drink for that
take the netherward part
of the small cloverwort, boil
in ale or in beer. A drink for fellons ; boil in ale
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What other ingredient is not clear by the grammatical construction.