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

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LEECH BOOK. I. 107
wort, attorlothe, spriiigwort, the nctlierward part of Book i.
clote, or burdock, worked up in ale. Against pocks, a
man shall freely employ bloodletting and drink melted
butter, a bowl full of it : if they break out one must
delve away each one of tliGin with a thorn ; and then
let him drip wine or alder drink within them, then
they will not be seen, or no traces will remain.
Against pocks : take glovewort, boil in butter, and
smear therewith.
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xli.
For inward fellon, there is a southern wort hight
cynoglosson, which is good to eat against inward fellon,
at night fasting. Against inward fellon, boil heleniuni
and lupins in ale, drink a bowl full of the hot infusion.
Again, a wort drink from wormwood and betony, and
from the rough waybroad or 'plaintain, let him drink
it many nights. For the yellow disorder, or jaundice,
/lorehound, bishop wort, tansy, earth ivy, mingle them
together, of each employ a good handful, add of mashwort,
for an infusion an amber full, and for a stone
bath use dithhomar, or "papyrus, horehound, and wormwood.
A stone bath; that must he, to use ivith a stone
hath ; let the oimn drink a drink from ompre or sorrel,
from wine and from water ;
sweeten thoroughly.
xlii.
From gall disease, that is from the yellow jaundice,
Cometh great evil ; it is of all diseases most powerful,
when there wax within a man, unmeasured humours
these are the tokens : that the patients body all becoraeth
bitter and as yellow as good silk ; and under
the root of his tongue there be swart veins and pernicious,
and his urine is yellow. Let him blood from the
lung vein, give him often a stirring drink, stone baths