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

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LEECH LOOK. u. 165
XXX. Leeclidoms if tliou will that tby wamb Ix; al- pook II.
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ways sound, and of disease and sore ; and of disease of
the wamb and
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of the intestines, and foi- the
moderation ' of the wamb ; sixteen receipts.
xxxi. Leechdoms and symptoms marking of the ro])e
gut and small gut, and of the ftocal discharge ; how
they suffer unbounded thirst and loss of appetite; and
of their complexion or hue, and of the navel, and the
dorsal muscles, and rectum, and pit of the belly, tvnd
milt, and share or puhes, and how bad leeches ween
that that is loin disease or milt wark, and where the
warnbsick suffer the disorder, and how it is with them,
and how a man shall treat them : four methods.
xxxii. Leechdoms how a man shall cure one so
afflicted, Avhether with bloodletting, and salve, and
baths, and Icoiv to send curatives into the belly.
And these leechdoms are efficacious against loin ache,
if a man mie sand, for dysentery, for diseases of the
maw, and gripings, and womens tendernesses, and of
the disease where a man would evacuate and is not
able (tenesmus), and if the discharge be windy, and
watery, and bloody. Twelve methods.
xxxiii. Leechdoms for the perilous disease in which
a man casteth from him and speweth, as they sa}^, his
excrement through the mouth ;
and for wounds of the
inwards, and sore of the small guts, and for laceration
of the inwards, and for inward spasm ; and for the
wamb which digests late, and the man who is not
affected by the leechdoms ; there cometh on him
dropsy, pain in liver, sore of spleen, retention of urine,
inflation of belly, pain in loins, sand and stones wax
in the bladder. Thirteen receipts.
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The " temperies " and " commoderatio vcutri;-," that it be neither too
hot nor too cold.