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the open scarifications, smear with tlie black salve, bo Book I.
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it for a night, be it for two, as need be, and as they
be open.
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Ivii.
For the disease called fig, a drink and a salve ; let
him boil wormwort in milk and drink it. A salve ;
pound glass to dust, add a drop of honey, leech the
wound therewith.
Iviii.
1. For a wen salve and for wen boils ; work the salro
of the netherward part of nettle and of hendock, and
of the wenv/ort which has cloves or bulbed roots^'^ and
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of the small moorwort, boil all four in butter and in f
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sheeps grease till there be enough, pound again the
same worts in the salve, and ship tar, and garlic, and
cropleek, and sedgeleek,^ and salt, mingle well, put
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on a cloth, w^arm thoroughly at the fire, smear tliere- •'^fhienoprcmm.
with.
2. A salve for wens ;
ontre, cress, I'ed nettle, wormwood,
the two wenworts, elder rind, w^aybroad, sorrel,
bishopwort, the nether part of bulot, smearwort, salt,
shi]i tar,^ and sheeps grease. For a wen boil ; take
cropleek, ontre, helenium, the clove rooted wenwort,
]iound all the worts thoroughly well, lay the stuff on.
8. A wen salve ;
harts marrow, ivy tar, and beaten
pepper, and ship tar.
4. [Against the black blain, give to the man to eat
two bunches or three ofl:' the wort, wdiich is called in
three ways, the mix en plant.^]
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Pix uavalis is occasionally prescribed by the medical authors, as
Nic. Myreps, 481, c, in
- Atropa belladonna.
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